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    I don't know, aside from obviously being a scary nutcase he showed a lot of promise and no major chinks in the armour to me. Beating Tua and Byrd when they were both undefeated is very impressive for a 24 year old man without much of a learning curve before that point. As grey said both were limited but they couldn't have been more different either, Ike obviously had some depth to him. I thought he could have made the Tua fight wider and quite a bit easier on himself to, maybe he didn't have the poise to box under a lot of pressure though who knows. Bottom line is he was crazy and wasn't going to avoid prison much longer than he did.

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    The FACT is that Ibeabuchi had half a career due to his mental illness which may or may not have been exacerbated by CTE (just throwing that out there). How he would have faired vs more well established/well rounded fighters is a mystery and how long his career would have lasted is also a mystery. Joe Mesi looked good to fight 10-20 more times right before he fought Jirov, ditto Magomed Abdusalamov. What I try to do is base how Ike Ibeabuchi was vs how other fighters from Nigeria did as pros. Yes there's plenty of room for error as David Izon is not Sam Peter and neither is Duncan Dokiwari, but there is a pattern fighters from Nigeria seem to follow. They start off looking like unstoppable beasts, they slow down, and they end up taking too much punishment from being in one too many battles.

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    Fair enough, point is he was on a good track and you can't write off his chances completely any more than you can say he would have beaten someone like Holyfield. Few great HW's ever looked completely unstoppable at the same stage of their career, hell Holyfield was going life or death with lesser guys when he first moved to HW and he had a much better pedigree beforehand. I think Sam Peter or Joe Mesi would have been food for a young David Tua also, but that's just me.

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