whats the most disapointing fight in the history of the sport?
Like to think i know my boxing from all eras when it comes to the good and the bad, but ugly i only really know of post 2000
just re-watched jones-hopkins 2 and its just horrible to watch. No the fight was never going to be about 2 of the best in their prime battling eachother but it was arguably 2 of the greatest 160-175 pounders in the history of the sport fighting in what should of been an historic rematch but instead turned into a horrible poor affair that had the markings of a bar room brawl
remember for years talking to boxing fans about the possibility of a rematch between the 2 and it always got tongues wagging, even when the fight was announced at a time that jones jr was more than a shot fighter it was greeted with excitement in most quarters
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i see what you are saying man but i had little interest in that fight to begin with
it would be like watching ac milan v real madrid of the 90s, two great teams and i would be interested in seeing who won but id rather watch united v livepool of the same time even if they werent anywhere near as good
in recent memory id like to say audley v haye was disapointing, but i knew it was gonna happen
hatton v pac was disapointing, but just coz of the mannor in which our boy was taken appart
moore v picarillo was a bit disapointing, all my mates was round mine, full fridge of beer expecting a barnstormer as most of moores at that level were and it was an easy night
froch v dirrell
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Recently it would have to be Bradley - Alexander. A boring,shit ass fight that was supposed to pin two great fighters in there prime together. All we got was a snoozer and then a panzy quitter opting out of the fight because of a clash of heads. Then seconds later everything was alright with his eye, very similiar to Mayorga quiting from a hand injury then whipping his face and cleaning his ears out with the same hand.
Most disappointing in history ? Probably not just in recent memory.
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Any fight that has featured audley harrison.
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De La Hoya-Trinidad. It was suppose to be the Leonard-Hearns of that generation. I'm pretty sure people know why it was disappointing.
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Memory a bit off but was a fight involving Nicky walker-Ron admundson-Dan Schomer ???? Two of the three I believe. It had to have at least 3 rounds in which not a single punch landed. Was just dreadful.
Terry Norris Vs Paul vaden. Ugh
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Junior Witter v Demarcus Corley. I had an idea it was going to be pretty poor. Did I not have a concept of how poor it actually could be.
Skelton v Williams in the Millenium Stadium. When you buy tickets expecting to see JoeCal v Glen Johnson, that farce really got me annoyed.
Klitschko v Ibragimov. Baaad.
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1.The heavyweight that started crying in the middle of the fight.
2. Clottey vs Pacman. Clottey was suppose to fight
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I think most of the fights listed don't qualify.
Here's why. In order for it to be the most disapointing fight in history it would have to either involve two big names or 1 superstar name.
So far I think gen. bulldog has listed the biggest let down...
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generalbulldog
De La Hoya-Trinidad. It was suppose to be the Leonard-Hearns of that generation. I'm pretty sure people know why it was disappointing.
Great call on this one.
How about Tysons return fight vs. McNeeley?
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Leonard-Hearns 2 Leonard-Duran 3 Too little too late. Leonard gets two paydays in and boors the crap out of the fans and if I missed my guess, Hearns got a draw after putting Leonard down on his tail and he wouldn't mix it up with an old Duran.
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Another 1 that qualifies would be Tyson-Holyfield 2. After the huge shock in the 1st fight people were expecting another thrilling HW fight in the sequel to see if Tyson can avenge his loss, not to mentioned the fight did 1.99 million PPV buys, the most ever at the time (now surpassed by Oscar-Floyd). The fight ended with a huge thud when Tyson bit Holyfield's ear robbing fans of a worthy sequel.
So I would say imo this is the most disappointing fight in history because of what happened. This was at the sport's premier division, not to mentioned the most bought PPV at the time.
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Dela Hoya - Mayweather - Damn over 2m PPV buys for that?
Tyson - Spinks - People expected a good showing from Spinks given that he was able to stop Cooney. Superfight for the real lineal heavyweight title lasted 90 seconds :( . Some people thinks Spinks throw the fight :D
Lewis-Tyson - Tyson looks like a punching bag out there. Lewis purposely did not KO him right away. One sided fight. Its supposed to be a dramatic Ali-Frazier fight.
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Sonny Liston/Muhammad Ali 2 was extremely disappointing.
Rocky Marciano/Joe Walcott 2 was extremely disappointing.
I thought Patterson/Liston was disappointing, both fights. Same way you can say Frazier/Foreman and Norton/Foreman were disappointing. Wanted to see Floyd and Joe do a bit better than that as Champions of the World. as for Ken he always got blown out by the big bombers: Shavers, Foreman, Cooney. but gave fits to the great boxers like Ali and Holmes.
Another disappointing fight was Tyson/Holyfield 2 as has been mentioned above.
Also Klit/Lennox was disappointing as it was left hanging and unresolved really.
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generalbulldog
Another 1 that qualifies would be Tyson-Holyfield 2. After the huge shock in the 1st fight people were expecting another thrilling HW fight in the sequel to see if Tyson can avenge his loss, not to mentioned the fight did 1.99 million PPV buys, the most ever at the time (now surpassed by Oscar-Floyd). The fight ended with a huge thud when Tyson bit Holyfield's ear robbing fans of a worthy sequel.
So I would say imo this is the most disappointing fight in history because of what happened. This was at the sport's premier division, not to mentioned the most bought PPV at the time.
I could just never give Tyson the satisfaction in that one...if for any other reason then that it was surely headed for the exact same conclusion as the first by all indications. Mike milked much more from quitting like that, media boo hoo spotlight etc then he did if he had been cleanly tko'd...what a kook.
Similiar one of the most disapointing to 'not' happen was when they were originally signed back in 91'
Randall vs Chavez 3.....many yrs and few rehab clinics too late for Frankie who should have had Chavez in mandatory rematch asap.
Trinidad vs Jones jr in way....Jones jr was calling out Tito waaaaay back strictly on his name value and it comes off far too old and Tito well outta weight range. Bit of a farce fight with names only.
