Wrong Man at the Wrong Time

[ElTerribleMorales]

Which of your favourite boxers where around when their division was just stacked with people they couldn't beat to be an ATG but in a different era could have been truly huge.

First off I go for Tommy Hearns, despite what he achieved he still was in the shadow of Leonard and Hagler and didn't take on the best Duran so for me despite achieving great things he could have been up ther with some more household names.

actually hearns did take on Duran, he knocked him out cold like in the third round

that was Duran past his best, i'm pretty sure jamiebhoy means the same Duran that beat Leonard at welterweight, not the blown up 154 version

[Master]

For Riddick Bowe, Holyfield was the wrong man at the wrong time because he would have dominated but for him. Lewis was with a crap trainer and Tyson in jail so Bowe would have had a longer run as champ.

[milmascaras1]

my take is that if roberto duran didn't exist when esteban dejesus was fighting, dejesus could have been a very dominant world champion. this guy had everything. he was just unlucky to have been born in duran's era!

[Master]

Wrong men in the wrong era would be anyone who had to face Ali, Liston, Frazier and Foreman.