Instances of fighters toying with their opponents to inflict more punishment

[bradlee180]

Julio Cesar Chavez vs Hector Macho Camacho

Camacho did his usual act to sell the fight, but Chavez took it personal and told him knocking him out would be too easy, that he would carry Camacho to punish him....and that's EXACTLY what Chavez did.

He'd hurt Camacho, then hold back so Camacho could collect himself, then he'd hurt him again. It was sadistic.


The Great Joe Louis said Tony Galento angered him so much with his insults that Joe decided he would carry the man in order to punish him more. Tony did have one of the hardest left hooks in boxing history, and after Tony decked Joe for a count, Joe decided the hell with his intended plan; he just wanted to finish it then...which he did.


Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson
Lewis could have ended that fight about 3 or 4 rds earlier if he would have simply went ahead and dropped the right hand on Tyson, but I don't think it was malicious at all on Lennox' part; he was just always naturally a very cautious fighter.
It was brutal to watch Tyson take all that extra punishment just because Lennox was too worried and too respectful of Mike's power to simply let that right hand go. Mike was in pitiful shape; Lennox was unintentionally torturing him because of his overly-cautious nature.


EDIT:
Wladimir Klitschko had made very clear that he intended to punish David Haye for his insolence by carrying him for the full 12 rds to give him a pizza face, intending to knock him out in the 12th rd.

.

[Spicoli]

Whitaker could make a habit of it.....sickingly and to the point of throwing emptys at the screen.As much as I hate to say it he even toyed with the great Nelson a bit.

Ya know what.Cancel this.Pernell most certainly did not look to inflict more punishment...just clowned.Missed that part