No one can say for sure. Ike got sent away before he had a prime. He'll always be a "what if" story in boxing. Maybe his talent would have skyrocketed over the years and he would have been an ATG. Maybe he's washed up at 26, the Chris Byrd fight was his peak and he loses his next 10 fights. We never got a chance to see. He was just one of those guys (like Tony Ayala) who had a lot of potential and blew it with stupid decision making.

What if Tony Ayala never went to jail, kept on his path, got big fights with Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard, beat them and became a legend. Would it have happened? We'll never know. We'll never know with these guys, its a question that really can't be answered.