Fights in which a fighter was CLEARLY overconfident

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

Lennox Lewis vs Hasim Rahman I .....Lennox was just thinking Rahman was gonna lay down for him. How wrong he was.

Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas...Tyson simply didn't train and of course it didn't help Buster was dedicated to victory as his mother just passed away before the fight.

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Good ones. Lennox did this twice.... 'cause he did it with Oliver McCall also.
To his credit, he took them much more seriously the 2nd time around.

Hamed v MAB Even the ring post thought he would ko Barrera :kick: To the point of being given a pre bell in ring statement by Buffer ffs.

Pretty much Hamed vs anyone and everything. Fighters, interviewer's, dinner buffets ???

Gerald McClellan Vs Nigel Benn.

Nigel Benn a world champion who was a murderous puncher, a champion who had defended his title six times and McClellan was fighting away from home, moving up in weight and his first fight at that weight was to fight a guy like Benn ?

Yet he thought he could just blow Benn away ?.........and to be fair....he nearly did, in the first round, but when realized that this was not going to script, then obviously sadly what happened, happened.

Thad Spencer vs. Jerry Quarry

Thad fought the 'completely wrong fight'. He never listened to his corner's instructions
and made the fight easy for Jerry.

"Stupid Head"

Thad Spencer >
"I thought that Jerry would fall down from the 1st-Punch that I landed."

Oh Bomber, if only...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_EEeixw5yA

Why does everyone keep showing Herol Graham getting knocked out?

Bomber had a right to be confident, he was battering Jackson around for 3.5 rounds and they were about to stop it. :(

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Originally Posted by Master

I think Berbick was overconfident with Tyson, he fought the most stupid fight possible. I do not know what was his strategy. Charge of the light brigade.

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Berbick was doing alright at the start, he was landing some fair whacks himself. I think people forget when the fight was announced it was a virtual pick-em. It was late money that made Tyson the favourite. Many were unsure if Tyson was for real.

Yeah any fight where a guy dropped his hands and got levelled.

More recently I'd have to go with Broner against Maidana, how he thought standing in front of a puncher like that was a good idea is beyond me.

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Originally Posted by Master

Why does everyone keep showing Herol Graham getting knocked out?

Bomber had a right to be confident, he was battering Jackson around for 3.5 rounds and they were about to stop it. :(

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I just love the commentary on that clip. And yeah it is a bit cruel on old Herol, that this keeps cropping up. So here you go, Graham in arguably his absolute pomp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVe9Q9wYNFU

Edit: wrong thread!!

David Hate vs Carl Thompson.

Sept 2004.
Haye, a pro since Dec 2002, ran out of gas quick, and the old veteran Thompson, a pro since 1988, took advantage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhheKWYa1Cc