Your Top (5) Worst moments in boxing history

[Arvid_85]

I did not know Tyson lost until the next day as I'd did not have sky. I would have been in tears if I watched the fight. What was horrible was the corrupt Suuliman and King trying to steal back the title from Buster the day after. That was bad.

I saw it live with my father. Seeing my father shocked, that was unusual. I didn´t understand politics then, so that story I learned more about in my teens. Or well, I don´t understand the politics today either. Just want to see people fight each other.

[Master]

You bring up some good memories. I had a love and hate relationship with Naz.

Also would have loved Oscar to get the split decision against Floyd.

[SlimTrae]

...some emotional moments listed here. I'm the odd man here for Bowe-Golata...smiles and laughter for me!

Oh the pain of a 10 year old watching Ali on the stool against Holmes. I did well to block that memory ..until I made this thread .thanks a lot sleepwalker & master...oh, the agony ..

[Master]

Bowe v Golota riot was ugly and not funny Slim.

[Sleepwalker]

^I thought Lou Duva was gonna die of a heart attack or come close to it.

I still picture the scene of him hauled over that guardrail on a tilted stretcher with an oxygen mask.

Amazing how easily human beings can turn into such thugs at the drop of a hat

[SlimTrae]

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I still picture the scene of him hauled over that guardrail on a tilted stretcher with an oxygen hat

Must be the thug in me...I chuckle just thinking of that scene...it looked like something out of a comedy movie.

I mean who in their right mind..tried to turn a man on a stretcher....to the side?!!!!

The Direll Abraham fight almost broke out....a LOT...LOT of pushing...but when Dirrell came to...our reaction was ...what happened? He fell from that?? Then .fans calmed down.


I was in the middle of that spastic moment. About 100 or so Abraham fans were about to be assaulted...for no reason.

It was because one of Andre's people motioned to his elbow...wondering is that what arthur used....fans saw it....shit got real intense.....then when the replay on the big screen..it went from...let's fuck up his fans to . .uhhh....is he acting

[Andre]

Bowe v Golota riot was ugly and not funny Slim.

B True, but I was still glued to the action of it all.

[Andre]

Early deaths in and out of the ring are the saddest for me. All the above, Loco,Chico,Gatti so many.

Losses and bum decisions are the next thing,but that would make a decent separate thread.

[TitoFan]

Early deaths in and out of the ring are the saddest for me. All the above, Loco,Chico,Gatti so many.

Losses and bum decisions are the next thing,but that would make a decent separate thread.

Arguello's death was also extremely sad and totally premature.

[IamInuit]

I’m in the same kind of mindset on this question as @ X Oh some fights really got to me like Hop/Tito, Holmes/Ali and Tarver/Jones 2 but what’s happened to the sport under the false guise of evolution bugs me more. My pet peeves are more about operations then a particular fight.

Inpo

1 Allowing the world championship to fragment and at precisely when the NBA became the WBA and then “regulators” allowed the WBC to form by pulling off a rib. Then the IBF came along and WBO brought up the rear. What followed is what we see today. It was ok when there were 2 trinkets for a time and then King and WBC got together and burned portions of the seventies and eighties.

Which leads into my next bitch.

2 The power yielded by promoters/managers/handlers/pimps/parasites and broadcasters. Just how muddy do the waters have to get? Why is HBO telling everyone who they are fighting?

3.The present day acceptance of mediocrity. Posers waving belts and pretending right in the face of everyone and those mentioned above that enable its continuance.

4. The death of real trainers and the invention of celebrity ones. All part of the watering down process.

5 That it all continues. I’m convinced that there will have to be some global financial disaster of the likes we have never seen before for boxing to find itself. Purely economic concerns have a tendency to ruin just about anything. Weed might be an exception

Cynical and angry eh….I know but I still love this sport and hope it turns somehow and gets a little oxygen. I have to admit that after witnessing so many great eras where people sought and actually did fight each other, this coddled over protected posing era is a tough one to continue following.