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[QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3376586, member: 181"]
Just curious: did you watch his career unfold live, with anticipation of each fight, and excitement as he dominated?

Up until the Buster Douglas fight, it was thrilling and extraordinary.

From that perspective, it is not implausible (though a few shades off) for someone to call his career's 'irregularities' thereafter a "waste of talent." "Stupid" is not an implausible rebuttal, but it too is a few shades off.

He's a human being: flawed, imperfect, and amazing. Even if it's unrealistic to imagine a perfection, when you get an extended glimpse of something that looks like it, it changes how you seen things, and its loss can seem like a "waste." Adopting an after-the-fact or later-in-starting larger perspective can lead to labeling something "stupid."

I'm not asking the, "Were you there from the beginning?" question to put you in your place. You may have been, which would surprise me. Or you may not have been, which would bring different understanding to me. You might be available for a different understanding as well. I am truly curious.
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