Fights you found unpleasant to watch

[CFH]

Most recently: Kirland - Angulo. That fight should have been stopped by the end of the 3rd round.

[Spicoli]

Unfortunately there are just too many. A few that stick personally
Carl Griffith vs Serguei Artemiev way back...you could see him being hurt but wouldn't fold
Meldrick Taylor in 2nd match with Chavez...one where the 'sell by' date had long expired. Terrible.
Simon Brown vs Bernard Hopkins...shame on ya Bernard.
Gabe Ruelas vs Jimmy Garcia
Duran being led to utter slaughter with William Joppy. Absolute travesty.

[Mars_ax]

Ali -Frazier III, (the thrilla) Joe took a horrible beating and so did Ali, this fight basically end both pugs careers as well as ruining their health, very unpleasant to watch.

[beenKOed]

Now I love toe to toe action and knockouts as much as the next person, but every so often a fight comes up that has me feeling a little off putted by what's going on.

Either because someone is getting beaten up too badly, or the fight is a total mismatch. I think the most I've ever been disturbed by a fight was Vitali Klitschko vs Shannon Briggs. Shannon immediately had no chance and his corner would not pull him out. I was disturbed how Vitali kept on wailing on him even in the later rounds, as was his right but I remember wishing him to just carry Shannon until the end.

I also can't stand to watch Gerry Cooney's knockout of Ken Norton, I swear to god Cooney punched with the force of a speeding motorcycle.

Are there any fights that disturbed you guys and maybe made you question why you watch boxing?

I feel the same way you do, I want to see a fight not a beating.
Corner men who show no empathy for their fighter are low on my list. Watching an overmatched fighter take heavy punches to the head, round after round, when they don't have a chance of winning, being sent back out by his corner men, makes me want to wade into them with a 36oz bat.
There is one other kind of fight that pisses me off almost as much. Two punchless boxers doing the same thing round after round after round. I know these guys are giving it all they have and that should be enough, but I usually can't stay tuned.

[p4pking]

Unfortunately there are just too many. A few that stick personally
Carl Griffith vs Serguei Artemiev way back...you could see him being hurt but wouldn't fold
Meldrick Taylor in 2nd match with Chavez...one where the 'sell by' date had long expired. Terrible.
Simon Brown vs Bernard Hopkins...shame on ya Bernard.
Gabe Ruelas vs Jimmy Garcia
Duran being led to utter slaughter with William Joppy. Absolute travesty.

Good calls, Duran being fed to Joppy is indeed a shame. Don't actually remember what kind of beating Taylor took against Chavez in the rematch, but on those same lines Oscar De La Hoya giving Chavez a rematch 2 years after knocking his dentures out was pretty worthless.

[ruthless rocco]

Seeing Gatti getting smacked around by Mayweather is entertaining but I find it slightly hard to watch now.

Agreed Gatti had no chance and got shit kicked but wouldn't stop...until he finally did get stopped.

Roy Jones Jr. vs Richard Hall was pretty brutal. Roy hit him with EVERY punch imaginable...I couldn't believe the look on Hall's face when it was finally stopped. He wanted to continue even tho Roy probably hadn't missed a punch all night!

[brocktonblockbust]

Now I love toe to toe action and knockouts as much as the next person, but every so often a fight comes up that has me feeling a little off putted by what's going on.

Either because someone is getting beaten up too badly, or the fight is a total mismatch. I think the most I've ever been disturbed by a fight was Vitali Klitschko vs Shannon Briggs. Shannon immediately had no chance and his corner would not pull him out. I was disturbed how Vitali kept on wailing on him even in the later rounds, as was his right but I remember wishing him to just carry Shannon until the end.

I also can't stand to watch Gerry Cooney's knockout of Ken Norton, I swear to god Cooney punched with the force of a speeding motorcycle.

Are there any fights that disturbed you guys and maybe made you question why you watch boxing?

very similar to a question I have often asked. Yes watching Foreman decapitate Frazier esp. the 2nd knockdown (the uppercut from Hell) was very disturbing for me. in their first fight I mean.

Also fights like Resto with the plaster wraps or whatever it was.

Cooney's KO of Norton is also very disturbing for me as Norton was stuck in a sitting position on the turnbuckle and was already unconscious when Cooney delivered another 4 wailing shots with full force. Ref should be tarred and feathered and fed to lions.

[brocktonblockbust]

[brocktonblockbust]

also unpleasant

[erics44]

in recent memory Ashley Theothane v lenny Daws started to become a bit worrying

[bzkfn]

Derek Chrisora vs. Danny Williams was very sad. Williams should never have been allowed to get in the ring and he shouldn't have a licence now either.

I agree with Gatti-Mayweather. That was a bad beating.

I might've pulled Pavlik out alot earlier against Hopkins.

Holmes-Ali should never have happened.

I also feel quite sad when I see Riddick Bowe on a Klitschko undercard fighting a 4 rounder. He looks like a bear that has been taken away from his family and chained in a circus cage only to be pulled out and have to perform for people.

[mightyfighter]

Cotto vs Margarito I
Seeing Angulo gassed out and getting beat on by Kirkland was a bit difficult especially since I was rooting for Angulo.

All of Devon Alexander's fights are pretty unpleasant to watch as well.

[chinchekked]

Emmanuel Augustus vs Ray Olivera on ESPN FNF a few years back comes to mind. Not 100% sure if memory is correct but I recall Augustus all but refusing to hit Olivera in the head after a certain point. Hard to watch but at the same time a great display of class by Augustus.....I became a true fan of his that night

[Beanflicker]

The one's I don't like are the one's where a guy has a great chin and is too tough for his own good and is just taking huge, unanswered punishment (think Tex Cobb vs Holmes or Roy Jones vs Richard Hall) and you know they don't have it in them to win the fight. Then it's no longer a competition, it's just a slaughtering.

Take Jones vs Hall, Hall couldn't touch Jones all night and just kept stumbling forward awkwardly and taking bomb after flush bomb from Jones. Wasn't a contest between two evenly matched fighters, it was just a mugging.

[Beanflicker]

Also like everyone I hate watching fights where guys I like get whipped.

When I first got into boxing the only three names I knew really were Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones.

Then over the next few years I had to watch them all take brutal losses (Tyson to Lewis and then Danny Williams, Roy to Tarver and Johnson, and Oscar to Bhop). Those fights were all very unpleasant and it was only many years later I could actually watch them and enjoy them for the skill that Lewis, Tarver and Bhop displayed in destroying my favorites.