Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
I believe a fighter can come back from a KO loss and forge a perfectly respectable and succesful career, for example Johnny Ruiz after Tua and Marco Antonio Barrerra after Junior Jones.

However, i feel it is much more difficult to come back from having ur skills revealed to be sub standard or jus insufficient. i.e. Trinidad will not b back after Wright, Tarver will never regain his rep. after Hopkins

I'd agree they probably have a better shot at coming back. I mean Jeff Lacy will unlikely be seen as a major force at 168 again but then I can't think of many fighters who get sparked out who then go onto achieve great things in their careers. Lewis and Nigel Benn are the only two recent exceptions that come immediately to hand.

A knockout loss early on isn't so bad, David Haye is an example of that but even with him his chin and stamina are always going to be seen as an issue and once a fighter has been knocked out the blueprint is there for it to happen again.

I mean it's interesting that a lot of these guys who got caught got caught more than once, Jones Jr, Lewis, W Klitschko, N Benn etc.