Name Fights That Stole a Fighters Prime

The ass whuppin he took in the rematch ruined him.

 

what i remember most about that fight is how much a dickhead Larry Merchant was post fight

 

Both of them.

 

GTFO

Tito beat the prime out of Vargas only then did Oscar fight him!

don't lie so blatantly.....

 

this is the prime example!!!!

 

Tito got a taste of his own medicine via his thrashing at the hands of Winky Wright

 

He definitely wasn't "ruined" by that though.

 

If anyone took Tito's soul, it was B-Hop by far..

Put on an absolute clinic and gave him a schooling in the highest order, and ended up TKOing him in the final round after pretty much winning every second of every round. And he did it all in front of Tito's own people, and after throwing down the PR flag in PR.

Such a humiliation that was really.

 

Let us also remember.......that:

Hopkins ran like a ***** all night against a blown Junior Middle Weight!

And he ran like ***** in Puerto Rico ass well when the mob chased him out of the arena in to his helicopter!!

Rememeber that???

 

No. No one does.

And I suppose he should have stood there and got killed by the mob. :-(

 

Hopkins vs Trinidad

Main article: Bernard Hopkins vs Felix Trinidad

Then, on September 29, 2001, WBA champion Trinidad challenged Hopkins for middleweight unification in Madison Square Garden.

For the first time in many years, Hopkins was an underdog in the betting, which led the confident Hopkins to place a $100,000 bet on himself to win the bout. (The $100K came from a sponsorship deal Hopkins had with online casino sight Golden Palace; Hopkins even had the GoldenPalace.com websight displayed on his back for the fight.[8]) During promotion for the bout, Hopkins caused huge controversy by throwing the Puerto Rico flag on the floor in press conferences in both New York and Puerto Rico, the latter conference leading to a riot in which

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During the fight, Hopkins was on his way to a lopsided decision victory when, in the 12th and final round, he floored Trinidad. Referee Steve Smoger called a halt to the fight after Trinidad's father entered the ring to stop the fight. It was the first loss of Trinidad's career, and it made Hopkins the first undisputed world middleweight champion since Marvin Hagler in 1987. 'The Ring' magazine and the 'World Boxing Hall of Fame' named Hopkins as the 2001 Fighter of the Year.

He defended the undisputed title six times. Hopkins bested Carl Daniels on February 2 surpassing Carlos Monzon's division record of 14 defenses, 2002, by tenth-round technical knockout; Morrade Hakkar on March 29, 2003, by eighth-round TKO; William Joppy on December 13, 2003, by unanimous decision; and Robert Allen on June 5, 2004, also by unanimous decision.


He did beat the **** out of Tito i am not arguing that.

 

Vitali Klitschko stole not only Lennox Lewis' prime, but his entire legacy. Early retirement speaks for itself.

 

Can you blame him for running for safety? What he did was disrespectful and stupid as ****. He's lucky he made it out of there in one peice, nobody was gonna expect him to just stand there, man.

As for the former, what some would call "running" others will call (and rightfully so) a complete boxing clinic.

 

Katsidis was already on his way out, due to every one of his fights being a war, so I assume you're talking about JMM who looked like pure ****.

However, somehow he became reinvigorated after this fight and despite absorbing a number of beatings and looking like he was clearly declining came back a brand new man, capable of training for 4 months in a training camp.

What a remarkable story of "natural" ability.

 

Remains to be seen if 40 year old lightweight JMM has ruined your cheating little bitches prime