Name some fights in the past where the winner chose to prolong the beating instead of going for KO?

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  1. Lazar

    Lazar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Question for some of you historians of the ESB:

    What are some of the fights in which the winner had the opponent hurt and could’ve ended the fight but chose to ease up and prolong the punishment? I can think of:

    Kovalev vs Pascal
    Golovkin vs Stevens

    Both guys had their man hurt but chose to give them a slow but sustained and gruel beating until either the corner or the ref had to stop it.

    I find this more sadistic than a quick lights out KO.

    Any other fights like this?
     
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  2. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tyson vs Biggs
    Chavez vs Rosario
     
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  3. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Live as if you were to die tomorrow Full Member

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    Chavez vs Haugen
     
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  4. TheOldTimer

    TheOldTimer Active Member Full Member

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    Ali Terrell
    Tyson vs Don Halpin
    Tyson Biggs
    Pacquiao Margarito
    Lewis Tyson
     
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  5. cslb

    cslb Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ali v Patterson. Patterson insisted on calling Ali "Clay". All though the beating Ali kept asking Patterson, " What's my name?"
     
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  6. Boon

    Boon Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I remember in a press conference when Patterson again called Ali "Clay", and Ali said "Say my name. If you don't say it you'll say it in the ring".

    Ali really did show Patterson who his daddy was in the ring.
     
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  7. Reg

    Reg Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't think Manny qualifies. Margarito was just too tough to go down. You aren't prolonging the beatdown if you step off and start looking at the ref to stop the fight.
     
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  8. Lesion of Doom

    Lesion of Doom Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Duran/Moore
    Jones/Hall
     
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  9. Manfred

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    That wasn't Patterson, but Terrell
     
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  10. cslb

    cslb Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It was also Patterson. See Boon's post below mine.
     
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  11. blackbolt396

    blackbolt396 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lewis vs. Tyson, he gave Mike a good Mississippi ass beating.
     
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  12. TheOldTimer

    TheOldTimer Active Member Full Member

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    As I remember it he visibly eased off Margarito and stopped looking for the ko but that doesn’t mean he stopped hitting him.
     
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  13. NasalSpray

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    Bill Joe Saunders Vs David Lemiuex

    Lemiuex was talking like a punk before the fight, Bill beat him up for 12 rounds and broke his nose
     
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  14. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    LaStarza talked a lot of smack about winning the first fight so Marciano apparently prolonged the beating in the rematch.
     
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  15. Ballista

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    I think Floyd Mayweather did this several times even though he was more than capable of getting the stoppage, like the Cotto fight, i even felt that he was about to KO Canelo.
     
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