The WORST heavyweight championship fights in boxing history

I'm gonna mention three (IMO), in chronological order:


Lennox vs. Tua - I had such high hopes for this fight. It promised to be a barnburner. Instead, it turned into a boring spectacle of Lennox keeping his jab in Tua's face for the whole fight, and Tua doing nothing more than swinging those vicious left hooks at Lennox and missing by a mile. I expected a whole lot more from Tua, but that was the fight that deflated the whole "2nd coming of Tyson" hype. Two buddies of mine and me took turns snoozing throughout the whole fight.

Wlad vs. Sultan - This one was even worse than Lennox-Tua. Timid Wlad was in full force. Pawing sheepishly at Sultan, lest he get grazed by one of Sultan's well-publicized punches. Ridiculous. I would've demanded my money back. I could probably put a few Wlad (later years) fights up here and, guess what............. I think I will.

Fury vs. Wlad - My joy at having someone finally dethrone Wlad was completely annulled by seeing Timid Wlad throw 4 punches a round. Whatever gypsy magic Fury performed on Wlad's head prior to the fight worked to perfection. This one is pretty close to Wlad-Sultan in utter garbage of a fight. I'll always say that the Wlad that lost to Joshua would've annihilated Fury. Just goes to show that Wlad could be toyed with mentally.

Chris Byrd vs DaVaryl Williamson

Anything John Ruiz was involved in

Wlad vs Fury

Shannon Briggs v Siarhei Liakhovich was the worst fight I have ever seen. Both were fighting at a snail's pace, standing and looking at each other, arm punches and hugging.

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Originally Posted by Master

Shannon Briggs v Siarhei Liakhovich was the worst fight I have ever seen. Both were fighting at a snail's pace, standing and looking at each other, arm punches and hugging.

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Good one, also Briggs vs Sultan

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

Chris Byrd vs DaVaryl Williamson

Anything John Ruiz was involved in

Wlad vs Fury

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I hated Byrd fights period. But yeah..... someone wrote Byrd and Williamson fought "like good friends."

John Ruiz was a joke of a HW champion.

Charles Martin v AJ

Thought it was actually a worst champ thread and started to nominate Martin over longtime honorees Seldon and Akinwande ;D. Even Martins "win" for the trinket was crooked and terrible in ko'ing Glazkov without even landing a punch. Glazkov seems retired now with a knee shredded in multiple ways. I like Aj but all that was about was hand walking him to a first belt.

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Originally Posted by Spicoli

Thought it was actually a worst champ thread and started to nominate Martin over longtime honorees Seldon and Akinwande ;D. Even Martins "win" for the trinket was crooked and terrible in ko'ing Glazkov without even landing a punch. Glazkov seems retired now with a knee shredded in multiple ways. I like Aj but all that was about was hand walking him to a first belt.

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Yea, I thought it was regarding the worst match ups to crown a champion, like Fres/Charr for example.

Martin

Ali/Spinks 2

Spinks was sapped of his energy by snorting mountains of cocaine leading up to the fight. Spinks was said to have had sex with 3 different women per night in the month leading up to the rematch.

Ali fought like, well, a 37 year old Ali.

You all have short memories .... do you think boxing began in the 1990's or are you newbie fans ;D

Marvin Hart v Jack Root
Jack Dempsey v Tommy Gibbons
Jack Sharkey v Max Schmeling
Floyd Patterson v Roy Harris
Muhammad Ali v Jimmy Young
Trevor Berbick v Pinklon Thomas

Although, I will readily admit that the modern era has the old timers beaten hands down when it comes to boring fights, with heavyweights who should be nowhere near a 'world' title

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Originally Posted by X

You all have short memories .... do you think boxing began in the 1990's or are you newbie fans ;D

Marvin Hart v Jack Root
Jack Dempsey v Tommy Gibbons
Jack Sharkey v Max Schmeling
Floyd Patterson v Roy Harris
Muhammad Ali v Jimmy Young
Trevor Berbick v Pinklon Thomas

Although, I will readily admit that the modern era has the old timers beaten hands down when it comes to boring fights, with heavyweights who should be nowhere near a 'world' title

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Baer vs Braddock
Ellis vs Quarry
Chagaev vs Skelton
Lewis vs Akinwande

Ali had some boring defences after he beat Foreman. Against Bugner was one.

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

Chris Byrd vs DaVaryl Williamson

Anything John Ruiz was involved in

Wlad vs Fury

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Ruiz vs. Holyfield 2 was a great fight. Not an all time must see fight. But the last four rounds of that fight was absolute gold.

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Originally Posted by Master

Shannon Briggs v Siarhei Liakhovich was the worst fight I have ever seen. Both were fighting at a snail's pace, standing and looking at each other, arm punches and hugging.

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They could have watered down that fight to the last two rounds and the fans would have equally have been as entertained without wasting any time.