Thread: Bravest Performances In Losing Efforts.

Meldrick Taylor vs Julio Cesar Chavez 1
Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali 3
Jim McDonnel vs Azumah Nelson
Chris Eubank vs Carl Thompson 1/2
Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe 1
George Foreman vs Evander Holyfield
Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton 1
Diego Corrales vs Joshua Clottey
Ken Norton vs Larry Holmes
Arturo Gatti vs Ivan Robinson 1/Micky Ward 1/
Ruben Olivares vs Alexis Arguello
Pernell Whitaker vs Felix Trinidad
Mike McCallum vs Roy Jones Jr
Rafael Limon vs Bobby Chacon IV
Jorge Barrios vs Acelino Freitas
Danny Lopez vs Salvador Sanchez 2
Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vasquez 3
Lupe Pintor vs Wilfredo Gomez
Razor Ruddock vs Mike Tyson 2

Theres a few to get us started.

Good list. Off the top of my head...

Billy Collins/Resto - Resto beat him with rigged gloves for 10 rounds and Collins fought they whole way through, given the circumstances thats probably one of the biggest displays of heart I've ever seen.

Ray Mercer/Wlad - Ray kept walking through a ton of heavy artillery from Wlad.

Arturo Gatti/Mayweather - 6 of the most one sided rounds you'll ever see, still wanted to continue.

Richard Hall/Roy Jones - Richard Hall took more brutal, power punches to the head than anyone I've ever seen, never even came close to winning a round and was pissed when they stopped it.

Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather.

Kept coming and was in Mayweather's face all night, even with a one sided ref and the point deduction, never gave up. Great heart and courage shown.

Most of Wayne McCullough's fights - incredible guts that guy

Buchanan v Duran

Dennis Andries - Tommy Hearns

benn-mcclellan, poor gerald, still cringe every time i see been land one of those sharp straight rights knowing the actual effect they would eventually take.

bradley stone - poor lad died in the ring and fought like a true warrior!!

Hatton took some crackers during one of his early fights with thaxton - covered from head to toe in blood yet still carried on to nick a points decision.

Jeff Lacy vs Joe Calzaghe

Gerald McClellan vs Nigel Benn

Ali vs Wepner

Edison Miranda vs Kelly Pavlik

Luis Colazzo vs Rick Hatton

Paulie Malignaggi vs Miguel Cotto

Wayne Rigby - Michael Ayers

Amazing ending to a sick fight.

Holyfield/Bowe 1- This put Holyfield on the map to casual boxing fans. This fight cemented what I and other diehards already knew about him .

Jose Luis Castillo-Diego Corrales 1
Diego Corrales-Joel Casamayor 1 (Give me one more round)

Micky Ward in the second two fights with Gatti. Especially III. Gatti in the first Ward fight.

Augustus against Ward.

Arguello against Pryor.

Wepner against Ali

Frazier in Manila.

Conn against Joe Louis.

Benny Paret fighting Emile Griffith. Poor guy didn't only lose the bout, but his life.......{I think his name was Benny}

George Chuvalo took some shots,
gatti-ward
vargas-trinidad, even though Vargas didn't make the final bell he was brave as hell that fight
lamotta-srr, there last fight he took crazy punishment

Originally Posted by LEGION

Benny Paret fighting Emile Griffith. Poor guy didn't only lose the bout, but his life.......{I think his name was Benny}

Yea Benny Kid Paret that was there 3rd meeting, he took about 30 punches in 6 seconds or something like that. I see the footage once and it was horrific, and whats even more scary is that Griffith isn't a big puncher.

Originally Posted by ICB

Originally Posted by LEGION

Benny Paret fighting Emile Griffith. Poor guy didn't only lose the bout, but his life.......{I think his name was Benny}

Yea Benny Kid Paret that was there 3rd meeting, he took about 30 punches in 6 seconds or something like that. I see the footage once and it was horrific, and whats even more scary is that Griffith isn't a big puncher.

I just watched a cool documentary last week they did on Griffith. That fight was the single worst case of negligent reffing I personally have seen. It was a travesty and that ref should have been brought up on charges of murder