The Worst Beatings in Boxing History?

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This has gotta be up there

[Master]

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.

[Spicoli]

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.

[Master]

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.

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Hard fight

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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.

[TitoFan]

Hard fight

Would've been interesting to see their reactions had they been told the scores at the time, which had Sosa clearly ahead.