How great can a fallen fighter become?

[IamInuit]

I never really said much about price getting knocked out it was a shock but echoed his olympic defeat also, he came up against a world class fighter and was taken out. I have heard this that and it was illegal round the head bla bla from maloney and others. My question is has there ever been a great heavy who had a similar setback? I know ali was dropped by sonny banks and cooper but never stopped. Price may become world champ but can he be great? Or will he be brunoesque.....

Interesting that you asked the question specifically concerning heavyweights. Wlad was laid out by Ross Purity who compares to Thompson and then went on to get kissed by the canvas about ten more times. Love him or hate him he adjusted as a fighter as boring as he is and has now been undefeated in over ten years. Langford was stopped about 10 times. Armstrong lost 3 of his first 4 fights and was stretched out in his first.

[Vendettos]

Hopkins lost his first fight, and I saw a thread recently were people were rating one of the all time greats.

So literally from a boxer without a win to one of the greatest.



As far as HW goes, we're in such bad shape.

We need to spawn 20 world class heavyweight fighters from somewhere, just so the next big thing has decent fighters to beat.

When considered like that you see just how far from decency we are.