Strangest thing you have seen in a fight

[Mendoza]

Originally Posted by brooklyn1550

1. Fan Man
2. The ear bite(s)
3. Oliver McCall crying

All fine choices, but I have a better one. There was a fight in the 50's once where one fighter charged out of his corner, missed badly with a punch, and fell clean out of the ring! He was then coutned out. The winner won via KO without even thowing a punch.

[fists of fury]

That's nuts.

The Bowe v Tillery incident where Tillery kicked him and Newman pulled Tillery over the top rope WWE style was insane.

One of the most bizarre incident involves Jimmy Abbot, a local heavyweight who stood 6'6 and weighed around 280 lbs. or so. Big guy.

The opponent was the Zimbabwean champion, who was literally too scared to throw a punch, or even stand up. He cowered in a corner kind of like a frightened cat and refused to come out.
Abbott walks on over and as soon as he gets close, this guy darts to the opposite corner and cowers again. This goes on for about a minute with Abbott looking totally bewildered and the other guy looking petrified, when the refs stops it.
I'm not sure if they ruled it a TKO or a NC, but the "fight" was totally bizarre.

[quintonjacksonfan]

What fighter pretended to be hurt took a knee and exploded back

up in the first round? It was a recent heavyweight maybe Bruce Seldon.

[Doc McCoy]

Originally Posted by quintonjacksonfan

Another strange event was a protester entering the ring in his underwear
The fight slips me now but it was between two guys who has unreal KO percentages

Battle of the Z-Boys. . . . Zarate v Zamora.

[Holmes' Jab]

Definitely the Fanman Fight (Holyfield vs Bowe II) the single most bizarre thing I've ever seen in a title fight. Closely followed by the Bight Fight and the McCall vs Lewis rematch.

[Holmes' Jab]

HM: Dempsey vs Willard (Dempsey leaving the ring after the first round thinking the fight was over, before being made to return)

[Titan1]

Originally Posted by My dinner with Conteh

Tony Tucker in an exciting fight, can't remember the opponent, but it happened...once.

Eddie"The Animal"Lopez?

[Titan1]

Originally Posted by quintonjacksonfan

Nothing comes close to the Coggi-Gonzalez fight. It's corruption at it's finest.
Everytime the hometown guy was hurt they would ring the bell to stop the round.

Another strange event was a protester entering the ring in his underwear
The fight slips me now but it was between two guys who has unreal KO percentages

The title fight Aaron Pryor had before Arguello, where he was floored and did something like a somersault and was back in his opponent's face.

[The Kurgan]

Originally Posted by heerko koois

Have you even seen those fights ? Tyson- Tucker was 100 times better than that awful Smith "Fight" ....

To be honest, I can only remember Tyson ducking a right and getting his by a left uppercut against Tucker, followed by lots of clinching. The entire last round of Tyson-Smith is clear in my mind.

Aside from Lewis-Tucker, which had some really warlike rounds, Tucker's entire career was non-descript.

[quintonjacksonfan]

Pryor against Kameda

[Bigcat]

In 1999 Lou Saverese boxed Lance Whitaker in Las Vegas, Lou was thrashing Lance but in round 6 he took a knee.. The referee knelt down next to him and spoke very clearly, I think you had better get up and start acting like you want to win this fight....

Lou indeed lurched back to his feet and won a shutout.....

[TBooze]

Remember when Rafael (not quite as good as his brother) Ruelas messed up his knee count against Gutierrez?

Brothers Gabe injury against Jeff Franklin was perhaps not strange, but it was certainly the worse I saw in the ring.