Thread: Your favorite fighter in a fight they dissapointed you in

I'll start if you know me at all you know my favorite fighter is Jhonny Gonzalez. In all the time I've been following him I've only once been dissapointed in his performance. That one time was against Montiel.
Although I thought Gonzalez clearly was ahead at the end of the fight, it was clear that neither guy was willing to put anything behind any punches. It was a very lackluster performance by two fighters that have amazing ability.

The way Hopkins fought Taylor the first time didn't impress me. He was too eager to make Taylor miss that he wasn't getting any offense of his own together,His gameplan to wait till Taylor got tired then take him out was a bad gameplan and it backfired. He did do well in the late rounds but it wasn't enough to get him a draw on the judges scorecards let alone a win. I personally don't know anyone that could have Hopkins winning that fight.... He at most deserved a draw.

Nigel Benn in his fights with Steve Colins.Seemed to lack the heart and fire in both fights.


Steve Robinson against Naz.Cant blame Robo because we did not know how good Naz was at that stage.

Hatton against Mayweather.I got caught up in all the hype and thought ricky was going to win.Be truth be told it was not even close.

Lets go for the Spinks trifecta
Taylor-Spinks
Holmes-Spinks
Ali-Spinks1

Arguello vs. Fernandez I - Talk about a shitty performance.
Sanchez vs. Ford - A porr showing IMO of Sanchez vs. someone he should have clearly beaten.
Foster vs. Folley - Foster was just badly outboxed.
Napoles vs. Muniz I - Napoles needed Sulaimans help here and he looked horrible in this one.
Eubanks vs. Collins - I think he fought well at times but I also think he could have done much more then what he showed.
JCC vs. Cabrera - Sure JCC completely dominated him but Cabrera was there for the taking.
Duran vs. Laing - WTF was that?
Morales vs. Zahir - Did Erik have any other plan besides looking for big punches?
Olivares vs. Hafey I & II - Poor showings by "El Puas" though on the decline he could have done a lot more.
ODLH vs. PBF - Not the night of the jab? WTF?
Kats vs. Diaz - Really dissapointed in Kats, he completely fought the wrong fight.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Arguello vs. Fernandez I - Talk about a shitty performance.
Sanchez vs. Ford - A porr showing IMO of Sanchez vs. someone he should have clearly beaten.
Foster vs. Folley - Foster was just badly outboxed.
Napoles vs. Muniz I - Napoles needed Sulaimans help here and he looked horrible in this one.
Eubanks vs. Collins - I think he fought well at times but I also think he could have done much more then what he showed.
JCC vs. Cabrera - Sure JCC completely dominated him but Cabrera was there for the taking.
Duran vs. Laing - WTF was that?
Morales vs. Zahir - Did Erik have any other plan besides looking for big punches?
Olivares vs. Hafey I & II - Poor showings by "El Puas" though on the decline he could have done a lot more.
ODLH vs. PBF - Not the night of the jab? WTF?
Kats vs. Diaz - Really dissapointed in Kats, he completely fought the wrong fight.

I disagree about Salvador Sanchez vs Patrick Ford say what you want about Ford, but he was tall and had a good jab, his height and reached bothered Sanchez and Sanchez struggled in the early rounds. But he comeback strong like a true champion in the later rounds, and showed his class i think it was a good performance personally, because he was losing and showed he could comeback from losing and adapt.

Calzaghe against Hopkins.
Ali against Holmes.
Barerra against Pac-man.
Hatton against Mayweather.
Tyson against Holyfield.
Tyson against Lewis.

To name a few.

Hopkins has diapointed me in all his fight since fighting ODLH apart from the tarver fight in which tarver never fought at all.

Originally Posted by ICB

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Arguello vs. Fernandez I - Talk about a shitty performance.
Sanchez vs. Ford - A porr showing IMO of Sanchez vs. someone he should have clearly beaten.
Foster vs. Folley - Foster was just badly outboxed.
Napoles vs. Muniz I - Napoles needed Sulaimans help here and he looked horrible in this one.
Eubanks vs. Collins - I think he fought well at times but I also think he could have done much more then what he showed.
JCC vs. Cabrera - Sure JCC completely dominated him but Cabrera was there for the taking.
Duran vs. Laing - WTF was that?
Morales vs. Zahir - Did Erik have any other plan besides looking for big punches?
Olivares vs. Hafey I & II - Poor showings by "El Puas" though on the decline he could have done a lot more.
ODLH vs. PBF - Not the night of the jab? WTF?
Kats vs. Diaz - Really dissapointed in Kats, he completely fought the wrong fight.

I disagree about Salvador Sanchez vs Patrick Ford say what you want about Ford, but he was tall and had a good jab, his height and reached bothered Sanchez and Sanchez struggled in the early rounds. But he comeback strong like a true champion in the later rounds, and showed his class i think it was a good performance personally, because he was losing and showed he could comeback from losing and adapt.

And I disagree with you, having just soundly beat Lopez 2 times and outboxed Chucho Castillo, he should have soundly beat Ford with ease. Instead he was still half asleep half way through the fight.
The one judge who had an obscene score was from Sanchez hometown of Santiago Tianguistenco in the Ring Mag. volume for that time they talk about this and how the judge was set up.
I'm not saying Sanchez lost the fight but I'm saying his follow up performance was shit.
The samy way I think Hattons follow up performances have been having beat Tszyu.
Sanchez having just beat Lopez was dissapoiting in this fight.
He did comeback, and that says it all he cameback from somewhere where he shouldn't have been.

[hopkins] and calzaghe
[taylor] and wright
[roy jones] and tarver 3
[roy jones] and glen johnson

Toney-Jones. At the time, Toney was probably my second favorite fighter. I didn't know who this kid was trash-talking my boy, but he was supposed to get murdered when they fought.

Lacy-Calzaghe. Lacy was just scissoring through guys and I was hyped for him to take on whoever this Calzaghe guy was. I'm just glad I was smart enough to keep my trap shut as I'd never seen Calzaghe before. I just sat in stunned silence as I wasn't even able to interpret anything Lacy did as winning any aspect of that fight.

Tyson-Douglas/Holyfield I. Tyson could be extremely lazy when he wanted to be and when faced with an opponent who was supposed to lose he didn't do the right thing in training camp. I suspect he did it many times and most times the other guy didn't rise to the occasion.

Lewis-Rahman I. Looking at Rahman now, can anyone believe he was ever able to beat Lennox?

Holyfield-Moorer I & Holyfield-Bowe III. 'Nuff said.

Diaz-Campbell. I thoroughly believed Juan Diaz was unbeatable in the lightweight division. It took a guy who had the intangibles in spades to show how wrong I was.

Anyone who fought Antonio Tarver except Glen Johnson.

James Toney, actually its hard to pick just one.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Originally Posted by ICB

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Arguello vs. Fernandez I - Talk about a shitty performance.
Sanchez vs. Ford - A porr showing IMO of Sanchez vs. someone he should have clearly beaten.
Foster vs. Folley - Foster was just badly outboxed.
Napoles vs. Muniz I - Napoles needed Sulaimans help here and he looked horrible in this one.
Eubanks vs. Collins - I think he fought well at times but I also think he could have done much more then what he showed.
JCC vs. Cabrera - Sure JCC completely dominated him but Cabrera was there for the taking.
Duran vs. Laing - WTF was that?
Morales vs. Zahir - Did Erik have any other plan besides looking for big punches?
Olivares vs. Hafey I & II - Poor showings by "El Puas" though on the decline he could have done a lot more.
ODLH vs. PBF - Not the night of the jab? WTF?
Kats vs. Diaz - Really dissapointed in Kats, he completely fought the wrong fight.

I disagree about Salvador Sanchez vs Patrick Ford say what you want about Ford, but he was tall and had a good jab, his height and reached bothered Sanchez and Sanchez struggled in the early rounds. But he comeback strong like a true champion in the later rounds, and showed his class i think it was a good performance personally, because he was losing and showed he could comeback from losing and adapt.

And I disagree with you, having just soundly beat Lopez 2 times and outboxed Chucho Castillo, he should have soundly beat Ford with ease. Instead he was still half asleep half way through the fight.
The one judge who had an obscene score was from Sanchez hometown of Santiago Tianguistenco in the Ring Mag. volume for that time they talk about this and how the judge was set up.
I'm not saying Sanchez lost the fight but I'm saying his follow up performance was shit.
The samy way I think Hattons follow up performances have been having beat Tszyu.
Sanchez having just beat Lopez was dissapoiting in this fight.
He did comeback, and that says it all he cameback from somewhere where he shouldn't have been.

Styles make fights Danny Lopez was a come forward bomber which played into Salvador Sanchez who was a counter puncher. Ruben Castillo used good movement and boxed well, but again he didn't have Ford's height or reach, remember Ford had 4 inch height advantage and 6 inch reach advantage..........

And he used his physical attributes very well and i thought he fought very smart fight, not allowing Sanchez to get inside and kept the fight at long range with his jab. Ford may have not achieved much in his career but that night he fought very well and Sanchez took him lightly, but Sanchez's legendary stamina once again come into play and he won majority of the later rounds winning by 2 rounds IMO.

I just think it was down to a bad style match up and Sanchez taking him lightly, but every great figher has atleast one fight where they struggle against lesser opposition. But Sanchez didn't disappoint me in that fight and i don't think it was a bad performance personally, but thats just my opinion may im bit biased because Sanchez is one of my favorites.

Not my favorite fighter, but one of them:

Winky - Taylor: While I though, and still think, that Winky won the fight, and that overall he fought a great fight, he should've done something in the last round to seal it. I still think at worst the 12th was a draw (no fucking way did Taylor win it), but he should've come out fighting instead of doing as little (or slightly more) than Taylor did.

Wladimir vs: Sanders, Brewster I, Williamson, and Sultan

Cotto vs Corley....vs Margarito there was nothing else he could have done

Andy Lee vs Brian Vera

Jermain Taylor vs: Wright, Ouma, Spinks, and Pavlik II