Thread: Your Top (5) Worst moments in boxing history

Originally Posted by Andre

Early deaths in and out of the ring are the saddest for me. All the above, Loco,Chico,Gatti so many.

Losses and bum decisions are the next thing,but that would make a decent separate thread.

Arguello's death was also extremely sad and totally premature.

I'll throw in Sonny Liston's WWE-style dive. I have yet to witness another fighter literally roll around on the canvas like a log on water after getting knocked down.

Imagine if something like that happened today with all of the media attention. He'd be exiled.

Originally Posted by Sleepwalker

I'll throw in Sonny Liston's WWE-style dive. I have yet to witness another fighter literally roll around on the canvas like a log on water after getting knocked down.

Imagine if something like that happened today with all of the media attention. He'd be exiled.

I beleive it was legit. Seldon did worse.

I’m in the same kind of mindset on this question as @ X Oh some fights really got to me like Hop/Tito, Holmes/Ali and Tarver/Jones 2 but what’s happened to the sport under the false guise of evolution bugs me more. My pet peeves are more about operations then a particular fight.

Inpo

1 Allowing the world championship to fragment and at precisely when the NBA became the WBA and then “regulators” allowed the WBC to form by pulling off a rib. Then the IBF came along and WBO brought up the rear. What followed is what we see today. It was ok when there were 2 trinkets for a time and then King and WBC got together and burned portions of the seventies and eighties.

Which leads into my next bitch.

2 The power yielded by promoters/managers/handlers/pimps/parasites and broadcasters. Just how muddy do the waters have to get? Why is HBO telling everyone who they are fighting?

3.The present day acceptance of mediocrity. Posers waving belts and pretending right in the face of everyone and those mentioned above that enable its continuance.

4. The death of real trainers and the invention of celebrity ones. All part of the watering down process.

5 That it all continues. I’m convinced that there will have to be some global financial disaster of the likes we have never seen before for boxing to find itself. Purely economic concerns have a tendency to ruin just about anything. Weed might be an exception

Cynical and angry eh….I know but I still love this sport and hope it turns somehow and gets a little oxygen. I have to admit that after witnessing so many great eras where people sought and actually did fight each other, this coddled over protected posing era is a tough one to continue following.

Originally Posted by Sleepwalker

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I still picture the scene of him hauled over that guardrail on a tilted stretcher with an oxygen hat

Must be the thug in me...I chuckle just thinking of that scene...it looked like something out of a comedy movie.

I mean who in their right mind..tried to turn a man on a stretcher....to the side?!!!!

The Direll Abraham fight almost broke out....a LOT...LOT of pushing...but when Dirrell came to...our reaction was ...what happened? He fell from that?? Then .fans calmed down.


I was in the middle of that spastic moment. About 100 or so Abraham fans were about to be assaulted...for no reason.

It was because one of Andre's people motioned to his elbow...wondering is that what arthur used....fans saw it....shit got real intense.....then when the replay on the big screen..it went from...let's fuck up his fans to . .uhhh....is he acting

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Originally Posted by Andre

Early deaths in and out of the ring are the saddest for me. All the above, Loco,Chico,Gatti so many.

Losses and bum decisions are the next thing,but that would make a decent separate thread.

Arguello's death was also extremely sad and totally premature.

That July of 09 was seriously just a tragic shit month! Forrest, Gatti and Arguello within a couple of weeks. Still remember that special tribute hbo did and that was enough to bring any tough guy to tears.

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Originally Posted by Andre

Early deaths in and out of the ring are the saddest for me. All the above, Loco,Chico,Gatti so many.

Losses and bum decisions are the next thing,but that would make a decent separate thread.

Arguello's death was also extremely sad and totally premature.

That July of 09 was seriously just a tragic shit month! Forrest, Gatti and Arguello within a couple of weeks. Still remember that special tribute hbo did and that was enough to bring any tough guy to tears.

.HBO did a heaven of a tribute.

The day Little Red Lopez lost to Chacon was bad. The two losses to Sanchez were worse.
Nothing else can even compare to that.
Oh, Zarate losing to Gomez.

Gatti losing to Gomez. That was hard.