This has gotta be up there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEgUECv5Gw
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This has gotta be up there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEgUECv5Gw
I read Howard Cosell was so appalled by the one sided beating he retired from commentating boxing after the fight. It was also recently after Mancini had killed his opponent.
Merqui Sosa v Prince Charles Williams I has to be up there. Only fight I've seen that was stopped because both fighters were deemed to have taken to much punishment.
That was a brutal contest and both had been in previous brutal fights which the crowds loved. It was a compassionate decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Hard fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdXtDedOXws
Maybe Duran at his most Brutal, how Moore managed to stay on his feet in the 8th is a mystery - Duran was a huge underdog in this fight and 32 years old.
At ringside, Moore's mother and girl friend had fainted, slumping in their seats, and now there were cries to stop the bloodbath. But the referee, Ernesto Magaña of Mexico, appeared blind to what was going on. He kept looking at Moore's closed eye, as if waiting for it to fall out before he would stop the fight. Leave it to the WBA to hire a turkey to run a cockfight. That is what it had become, and Duran had all the talons.
"Finish him off now," Duran's trainer, Nestor Quiñones, told him before the eighth. It took Duran two minutes and two seconds to convince Washington to throw a blood-splattered white towel of surrender into the ring. If Magaña saw it, he ignored it. Finally Jay Edson, a Top Rank representative, clambered into the ring and called a halt to the proceedings. "The worst ref I've looked at for a long time," Arcel said. On top of that, the WBA's two Japanese judges, Kasumasa Kuwata and Tashikawa Yoshida, apparently were content to spend the night looking at Magaña looking at Moore's eye. They both called four of the seven rounds even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUjrdec7-8c
Moore died in a tragic way as well.
Duran is a cold bloodied killer in the ring.
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Would've been interesting to see their reactions had they been told the scores at the time, which had Sosa clearly ahead.
Julio C Chavez v Edwin Rosario was a beating .
Some pretty bad beatings were:
1. Tito ruining Vargas and David Reid
2. Margo beating Cotto, likely with loaded gloves
3. JCC vs Haugen
4. James Toney vs. Prince Charles Williams
5. Roy Jones vs. Gonzales and Richard Hall
6. Nigel Benn vs. G-Man
7. Gabe Ruelas vs Garcia (beat him horribly and he died in the ring)
8. Mancini vs. Kim (another horrible beating that led to death
James Toney spectacularly knocked out Williams but I would not say it was a beating. I think Toney gave Barkley a worse beating that he did Charles.
Agree that the Barkley beating was worse, but feel that Williams took a consistent pounding for 11+ rounds before that horrific right/knock out. Similar to Roy vs. Glen Johnson, where Roy/Williams had a few moments and threw some back, but took pretty consistent punishment round after round (for many rounds) before getting stopped by a big shot. Barkley was taken apart by Toney and that fight pretty much ended his career at that level.Quote:
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I remember thinking Toney was fighting the wrong fight against Williams being so close in all the time and he should keep his distance. For me the fight was not a one sided beating but close.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeeodAgree that the Barkley beating was worse, but feel that Williams took a consistent pounding for 11+ rounds before that horrific right/knock out. Similar to Roy vs. Glen Johnson, where Roy/Williams had a few moments and threw some back, but took pretty consistent punishment round after round (for many rounds) before getting stopped by a big shot. Barkley was taken apart by Toney and that fight pretty much ended his career at that level.Quote:
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Harry Greb v Gene Tunney 1
James Toney v Evander Holyfield
Arturo Gatti vs Joey Gamache....Gatti was just waaaaaay too big for Joey and Joey's career was ended that night.
Had a rewatch of Azumah Nelson v Jeff Fenech II yesterday and has to be right up there. Really surprising thrashing given that Fenech had to settle on shady draw and had Nelson all but out in final round of first bout.
something about this fight, its nightmarish, unforgettable, scary --- a total humiliating destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3tPjLhw2U
Nelson said he was ill in the first fight, think he had a fever and from the result of their first fight I beleive Azumah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli