Who is the most talented boxer to never achieve anything and fade away into obscurity

[El Kabong]

Dominick Guinn....

Ah yes the aptly named 'Southern Disaster'...for a while in his professional career he looked very good. Joe Mesi, Sam Peter, and Guinn were on one of HBO's deeper more interesting cards and they all did very well. Guinn showed all the signs of being a "somebody" in the division in fact as he was coming up he seemed to me to fight a lot like Evander Holyfield...above average power, decent hand speed, good workrate, hell of a chin (STILL hasn't been knocked down or stopped).....but I knew when he fought Michael Grant and he allowed Grant to last 7 rounds with him that he just didn't have the killer instinct that a top heavyweight needs to survive the division. He took it easy on Grant and although he kept winning I knew it was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of that softness.


Calvin Brock is another that comes to mind, he was all around pretty average of a fighter, but he had a style which was difficult to crack. He gave Wladimir Klitschko a little trouble, but ended up getting KO'd and it was downhill from there in boxing. He fought Eddie Chambers, took damage to his retina, had a botched surgery and was forced to retire. He wasn't a bad boxer at all...his KO of Zuri Lawrence was outstanding!

[Spicoli]

Ricky Womack. Apparently had the pedigree, the backing and faith of Manny Steward and skill but inexplicably just pissed it all away with crime and assault. He returned 16 years later from prison and ran off 4 wins but was slowly spiraling downward with depression and lack of adjustment. Two months after his last win, one where he felt 'the crowd turned on him' and he was being laughed at, he took his own life.

[holmcall]

Dominick Guinn....

Ah yes the aptly named 'Southern Disaster'...for a while in his professional career he looked very good. Joe Mesi, Sam Peter, and Guinn were on one of HBO's deeper more interesting cards and they all did very well. Guinn showed all the signs of being a "somebody" in the division in fact as he was coming up he seemed to me to fight a lot like Evander Holyfield...above average power, decent hand speed, good workrate, hell of a chin (STILL hasn't been knocked down or stopped).....but I knew when he fought Michael Grant and he allowed Grant to last 7 rounds with him that he just didn't have the killer instinct that a top heavyweight needs to survive the division. He took it easy on Grant and although he kept winning I knew it was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of that softness.


Calvin Brock is another that comes to mind, he was all around pretty average of a fighter, but he had a style which was difficult to crack. He gave Wladimir Klitschko a little trouble, but ended up getting KO'd and it was downhill from there in boxing. He fought Eddie Chambers, took damage to his retina, had a botched surgery and was forced to retire. He wasn't a bad boxer at all...his KO of Zuri Lawrence was outstanding!

Actually, he decapitated Zuri

[El Kabong]

And what was crazy about Zuri was that he NEVER KO'd anyone as a professional. 24 wins...not 1 single KO. Kind of outrageous for a boxer much less a heavyweight

[holmcall]

And what was crazy about Zuri was that he NEVER KO'd anyone as a professional. 24 wins...not 1 single KO. Kind of outrageous for a boxer much less a heavyweight

But he beat the living crap out of Albert Sosnowski and came within an inch of stopping him. He also gave Rahman all he could handle. Zuri had a lot of guts for a guts who had been decapitated.