The Worst Beatings in Boxing History?

[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.

[smashup]

Hard fight

[smashup]

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.

[Master]

Moore died in a tragic way as well.

Duran is a cold bloodied killer in the ring.

[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.

[Dark Lord Al]

Julio C Chavez v Edwin Rosario was a beating .

[mikeeod]

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

[Master]

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.

[mikeeod]

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.