Most ridiculous gimmicks in boxing history and which ones could acually be true?

Steve Collins been hypnotised before his first meeting with eubank, and eubank going apes hit, claiming it was a unfair advantage to Collins. Well what ever it was it did the trick.

 

1) The alleged spiked orange that Harold Johnson claimed drugged him in one of his bouts with Julio Mederos

2)Archie Moore's claim that while in Australia the Aborigines taught him their secret tribal answer to weight loss when explaining how he could drop drastic pounds before a weigh-in (It was later that it was discovered that Archie would just chew meat - injest the juices and vitamins and then spit out the pulp - leading up to a fight at 175.

3) Ayub Kalule's people discovering Ray Leonard was very superstitious and hiring some 'witch doctor' to place evil spells on Ray. It freaked ray out enough where he had his people study up on this sorcery and they discovered that dragons were the counter to this kind of sorcery and he had dragons embroidered on his trunks. Fair play to Kalule, who wanted none of this schtick and went to Ray's camp and told him this is nonsense and that he just wanted a fair fight. That was all cool, but Ray was taking no chances and kept the dragons on his trunks.

 

Jack Dempsey soaking his head in brine to toughen his face up!

 

Mike Tyson was also hypnotized before all of his fights up to the Bruno fight.

 

Junius Francis selling advertising space on the soles of his shoes

 

Trevor Berbick trying to psych out Mike Tyson by, as champion choosing black coloured shorts and boots and so hoping to force Tyson from wearing his customary black shorts. Apparently there was a ruling back then that the two fighters couldn't wear the same coloured shorts and so the champion could choose first. Maybe it was Angelo Dundee's idea to hopefully get any edge they could over Tyson but Tyson ignored the ruling, wore his usual black coloured shorts, paid the fine and then brutally made Berbick pay in the ring.

Btw. Berbick looked totally ridiculous when he decided, along with the black shorts and boots, to also wear black knee high socks which looked more like stockings.

 

I hate the thotchky design of trunks, gloves, shoes, and the ring mats with the sponsors.

They've gotten out of hand, and the designs just suck. Everything vies for your attention and there is no balance.

Everything should be simple, as to let the fight itself pop out the most.
One color for your gloves, one or two colors for your trunks. No sponsors or graphics on the damn ring mat. Cheapens the sport.

 

The orange story was true Johnson was drugged, whether in an orange or some other other means has never been proven. Fleischer made an editorial on it in the Ring I have the issue somewhere.
Harold Johnson, the No. 1 light heavyweight contender, entered his fight against Julio Mederos as a 2-1 betting favorite. Shortly before the bout, the odds favoring Johnson had been 4-1. Five months earlier, Johnson had defeated Mederos by a ten-round unanimous decision.

Johnson stumbled entering the ring, but it was thought he tripped over a rope. He danced around in the first round, hitting Mederos with a sharp left jab. Mederosa caught him with a solid right to the chin just before the bell, and Johnson staggered to his corner. In the second round, Johnson continued to jab and move until he suddenly fell to his knees without being hit. When he regained his feet, Mederosa moved in for the finish but didn't appear to land any damaging punches. At the end of the round, Johnson staggered to his corner and had trouble finding the stool. Shortly after sitting down, he collapsed onto the canvas. Johnson was carried from the ring on a stretcher.

A trace of a barbiturate was found in a urinalysis performed on Johnson at Hahnemann Hospital. Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader said a report by Dr. Alfred S. Ivella, the commission's physician, and several specialists who examined Johnson "show they are of the unanimous opinion that a barbiturate was administered to Harold Johnson prior to his scheduled boxing match with Julio Mederos." Based on the report, Leader suspended boxing in Pennsylvania for 90 days and instructed the commission to launch a probe during the 90-day period. The suspension went into effect on May 11, but didn't apply to bouts that were already scheduled. As the commission probed the charges, the ban was extended pending new regulations to tighten control over the sport. The suspension lasted 114 days.
Jack Sharkey claiming he saw a vision of Ernie Schaaf just before Carnera ko'd him?

 

I was thinking about this story when I saw a recent video of AJ and Mayweather meeting fans.
Some girl gives AJ a box of chocolates, which e offers to Floyd. And Floyd goes "nuh uh. That's a set up. That's an edible, that's a set up."

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Lou Nova's "Cosmic Punch"

Lance "Goofi" Whitaker

 

Cliff Couser's whole career.