Fighters that were unable to rebound from big losses?

[WWatt]

Watson post McCallum

I guess you missed the second Eubank fight.. lol!

[SimonH]

Watson post McCallum

I guess you missed the second Eubank fight.. lol!

Sadly no, I was there, that disgraceful night...

Watson was never the same fighter post McCallum.

IMO The Watson that beat Dangerous Don and Benn would of easily had Eubank's measure; instead they had two close and ultimately tragic fights.

[WWatt]

Watson post McCallum

I guess you missed the second Eubank fight.. lol!

Sadly no, I was there, that disgraceful night...

Watson was never the same fighter post McCallum.

IMO The Watson that beat Dangerous Don and Benn would of easily had Eubank's measure; instead they had two close and ultimately tragic fights.

Lol. I almost choked on my coffee reading that..

Watson was average, never near Benn's or Eubank's class, IMO.

He only beat Benn because Benn fought like a berk, whacking arms and gloves until he was burned out. Not even Watson's own team gave him a chance against Benn!

Eubank won the first six rounds easily - making Watson looking very average - before running out of strength due to losing 19lbs in four days. In the rematch, Watson clearly fought levels above anything he'd ever shown before - he was like a fucking man possessed.. the rumours of drugs and hypnotis, I wouldn't be suprised.

[shza]

Ricky Hatton.

ahem... excuse me? i do believe that hatton is undefeated sweet cheeks!
but mine are
Iron mike
Fernando Vargas,
Naseem Hamed
felix trinidad to an extent??

It's debatable whether he won or lost to Collazo, and I was mostly joking. Still, his sprint from the WW division back to fight a bum for a title he already abandoned at 140 is pretty shameful.

[Tito BHB]

Ricky Hatton.

ahem... excuse me? i do believe that hatton is undefeated sweet cheeks!
but mine are
Iron mike
Fernando Vargas,
Naseem Hamed
felix trinidad to an extent??

It's debatable whether he won or lost to Collazo, and I was mostly joking. Still, his sprint from the WW division back to fight a bum for a title he already abandoned at 140 is pretty shameful.

im mixed on this one, not shameful hella disapointing though, im not sure how certain they are about the move yet? i havnt seen it garenteed?? and in all honesty i think hatton did win the fight, its just another jones-tarver case he didnt win convincingly and he had trouble so people be talkin bout losing frankly i think its fair to say he won, but it wasnt great, thank god for that unexpected knockdown at the beginning is all i can say!
RICKY IS STIL MY BOY THOUGH!!

[shza]

Ricky Hatton.

ahem... excuse me? i do believe that hatton is undefeated sweet cheeks!
but mine are
Iron mike
Fernando Vargas,
Naseem Hamed
felix trinidad to an extent??

It's debatable whether he won or lost to Collazo, and I was mostly joking. Still, his sprint from the WW division back to fight a bum for a title he already abandoned at 140 is pretty shameful.

im mixed on this one, not shameful hella disapointing though, im not sure how certain they are about the move yet? i havnt seen it garenteed?? and in all honesty i think hatton did win the fight, its just another jones-tarver case he didnt win convincingly and he had trouble so people be talkin bout losing frankly i think its fair to say he won, but it wasnt great, thank god for that unexpected knockdown at the beginning is all i can say!
RICKY IS STIL MY BOY THOUGH!!

I think it's official that he's returning to 140 to fight some bum named Urango for one of the belts that Ricky voluntarily abandoned when he went up for his one-off at 147. i thought he drew at best against Collazo; and now that he's fighting a complete no-name bum, the excuse that he's really after big fights now and that's why he's not giving Collazo the rematch he initially promised holds no water. Hatton-Collazo II would certainly be a bigger fight than this joke match against Urango. But i guess the take-away is that he doesn't think he can hack it at 147 so he's back to the junior ranks.

[Bookkeeper]

It took Quartey six years to rebound even though it was not because of talent it was more of his ego.

[Tito BHB]

Ricky Hatton.

ahem... excuse me? i do believe that hatton is undefeated sweet cheeks!
but mine are
Iron mike
Fernando Vargas,
Naseem Hamed
felix trinidad to an extent??

It's debatable whether he won or lost to Collazo, and I was mostly joking. Still, his sprint from the WW division back to fight a bum for a title he already abandoned at 140 is pretty shameful.

im mixed on this one, not shameful hella disapointing though, im not sure how certain they are about the move yet? i havnt seen it garenteed?? and in all honesty i think hatton did win the fight, its just another jones-tarver case he didnt win convincingly and he had trouble so people be talkin bout losing frankly i think its fair to say he won, but it wasnt great, thank god for that unexpected knockdown at the beginning is all i can say!
RICKY IS STIL MY BOY THOUGH!!

I think it's official that he's returning to 140 to fight some bum named Urango for one of the belts that Ricky voluntarily abandoned when he went up for his one-off at 147. i thought he drew at best against Collazo; and now that he's fighting a complete no-name bum, the excuse that he's really after big fights now and that's why he's not giving Collazo the rematch he initially promised holds no water. Hatton-Collazo II would certainly be a bigger fight than this joke match against Urango. But i guess the take-away is that he doesn't think he can hack it at 147 so he's back to the junior ranks.

disapointing.
he if hes sticking at 140 he best fight jlc else im gone be pissed! cos light welter WAS where its at, and now its at welter and he knows it.

[shza]

It took Quartey six years to rebound even though it was not because of talent it was more of his ego.

hopefully he'll rebound quicker this time--that was the worst he's been robbed yet.

[ELBI16]

I think Vargas never really rebounded from the TRINIDAD DELAHOYA AND MOSLEY kos in fact he looked like he was 70 years old in that ring against mosley

[NuthaPug]

Trinidad, the three-to-one favorite over Hopkins

when the truth got preached that night, he just quit boxing.

Came back and truth got preached again.

It's not like he got a personal beat-down that made him less and unable to fight at his same level. Just that his level was exposed, and that took the wind right out of his career.

He was an impressive talent but how funny it now seems that he was ever 3/1 over Hopkins.

[CutMeMick]

ONE AND ONLY BUT ONE NAME SPRINGS TO MIND.
























NAZ

[bigragu]

Meldrick Taylor, after Chaves

How could you say that? Meldrick suffered Brain damage from that fight. Not to mention that was one of the toughest fights EVER!!!

[bigragu]

Naz was disappointing....I think it was more about the Perfect record than the beating....you can't get rid of a "L".

[NuthaPug]

Naz was disappointing....I think it was more about the Perfect record than the beating....you can't get rid of a "L".

And ... he had dedicated that victory to Moslems everywhere on earth. He was so absolutely sure he was unbeatable, that Allah had already delivered the fight into his hands.

There's an interesting depth of humiliation and a struggle of faith all wrapped up in that personal loss. He had to come to terms with a very different divine act than he had expected.

Someday, if he ever achieves humility and not just humiliation, it would be very interesting to hear him speak of this.