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JazMerkin
Mosley's defeat to Vernon Forrest. Shane looked unbeatable prior to this.
If you're talking about formality fights where someone played spoiler, then Jimmy Young, Carlos Baldomir & Zahir Raheem have all done this to George Foreman, Zab Judah & Erik Morales respectively.
Kind of but only when they did it twice, I guess Forrest could count against Shane, but I'm not sure he was that big an underdog in the second fight at least.
A hypothetical example might be Lennox Lewis losing to Rahman again in the rematch, or Wlad being knocked out again by Lamon Brewster.
Pavlik Hopkins is a good example of the unbeaten heir elect losing to the supposedly retirement bound former champ.
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Re: Has a fighter ever lost the 'formality' rematch or career defining win?
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