Thread: Your most dissappointing/saddest boxing moment?

What was it and why>?

Well disappointment would be ODLH vs. SSM I, I thought for sure ODLH would beat SSM with flying colors.

Saddest moment to me would be seeing JCC loose to 'The Surgeon'. I was only 13 when it happened and I couldn't stomach it....

Propably right behind would be seeing Joppy tee off on Duran, now that shit! made me sick I couldn't belive it was really happening...

Without a doubt...

Jeff Lacy - Joe Calzaghe.

It should have been a great fight. Because I KNEW that Calzaghe would engage with Lacy on the inside and I knew that would be a mistake. I literally spent DAYS going over that fight. I downloaded a ton of Calzaghe fights. Downloaded Lacy's career (even though I've seen most of it). Went over it a lot.

First round came around. Bam, inside. Calzaghe got the better but I knew Lacy would make him pay. Instead he looked more worried about the positioning of his trunks. Had a bunch of friends over. About round nine, I just died. After, Cotto fight I watched, but I couldn't pay attention. Bout as down in the dumps as I've ever been as a sports fan. Either that or when the Giants lost the World Series in 02. I don't think so though.

That was definitely the biggest disappointment of my boxing watching career. Most of the mega fights I've only seen in hindsight, and the other ones I can usually predict how the fight is going to go even if I don't pick the winner right. But that was my favorite fighter getting absolutely destroyed by my least favorite fighter and that sucked....

Also every Tyson fight I have ever seen live has been fairly depressing because I knew he was once a great fighter.

I think the saddest moments always involve watching a once-great fighter who just can't do it anymore. Nothing's worse than watching an old fighter get beat up by a mediocre opponent who they would have destroyed in their prime.

Watching Pernell get beaten up by Tito

I know that wasnt the same Pernell in his prime but still sad to see.

Tito Bieng beaten masterfully in a big way against Bernard Hopkins..

The closest we ever came to seeing felix lose was oscar.. But yet anyone can see the legitimacy in his win that night..

But when he got dominated by bernard..Coming into the late rounds..If anyone has faith in tito's power its me..But i knew he couldnt stop the excecutioner.. Was even worse when he was stopped with just over a minute to go i believe.. A stoppage loss.. A real bummer
Peace

It would have to be watching Lennox giving Tyson a beating for 8 rounds Tyson should have been retired a few year with millions in the bank but instead he was upto his eyes in debt and fighting just for the money but he took a right beating like a warrior i could have cried watching it i was shouting my head off at home for cotton to stop it

And of course roy's brutal knockout he suffered by way of antonio tarver..

Couldnt have come at a worse time.. From a worse opponent..Or any earlier in the fight..
It was one big punch he never saw coming and was laid out.. And i just sat there ..In silence for a moment with my jaw on the floor trying to take in what had happened..

An honerable mention goes to the ko loss of roy jones to glen Johnson...

Larry merchant put it best...

Glen Johnson seemed Taylor made for the old Roy Jones..But perhaps not for.. An Old Roy Jones..

Originally Posted by tysonbruno

It would have to be watching Lennox giving Tyson a beating for 8 rounds Tyson should have been retired a few year with millions in the bank but instead he was upto his eyes in debt and fighting just for the money but he took a right beating like a warrior i could have cried watching it i was shouting my head off at home for cotton to stop it

I had tears in my eyes watching this. I'm one of those fools that cheered for Tyson long after it was decent to do so...was blind but now I see.

The Lewis bout broke my heart but the Danny Williams fight turned me off Tyson for good.

The saddest would have to be Tyson against McBride. I have always loved Tyson and that was of course the final nail in the coffin. It was a sorry decline.

Toney: Peter 2 was also a tough one for me, because Toney was clearly being outworked and Toney's skills were no longer able to compensate for being out of condition and old at the top any longer. Im not so sure Toney will be back. Anyone knows I love Toney.

When i watched Tyson v Williams and Tyson v Mcbride it killed me i could have had a boxing breakdown

Originally Posted by tysonbruno

When i watched Tyson v Williams and Tyson v Mcbride it killed me i could have had a boxing breakdown

At least with the Williams fight you had the faint belief the leg had gone on Tysons part, the McBride fight destroyed it all once and for all. That was an utter shell of Tyson....

Originally Posted by miles

Originally Posted by tysonbruno

When i watched Tyson v Williams and Tyson v Mcbride it killed me i could have had a boxing breakdown

At least with the Williams fight you had the faint belief the leg had gone on Tysons part, the McBride fight destroyed it all once and for all. That was an utter shell of Tyson....

Heck, he had been a growing shell for a number of years, but a number of us wouldnt wake up to it. Hindsight is indeed a glorious thing...

an under-prepared Lewis getting starched by Rahman

an over confident Benn getting stopped by Eubank (Watson as well)

the tragic ending to Benn McClellan (Nigel's finest hour will forever be remembered for the wrong reasons)

Eubank v Benn III - it never happened

Naz unable to come back after a defeat - can't help feeling we were all a bit shortchanged with his career

Tyson-Lewis...even though everybody knew he was past it(Tyson) most ppl still believed Tyson could do it,all it would take it was a punch,infact on the buildup to it on Sky Box Office nearly everyone tipped Tyson to win by K.O..but unfortunatly we all know what happened.

I do believe if at the time if Tyson took it seriously he could have won but.......