We always talk about different fights. We also talk about the rise, stardom, and fall of fighters. It just came to my mind. What bad result that a fighter could face would mean the worst outcome for him or her? Or is there really no worst outcome and it just depends on the fighter. Vote and comment.
This is a great question and it's difficult to choose. I wanted to choose quitting but I've chosen the option about it depending on the circumstances. If a boxer is getting brutally beat up, risking his life and his trainer doesn't throw in the towel I've never had an issue with quitting. It gets too much bad press IMO. However if a boxer just quits because hes clearly being outclassed rather than seeming in any real danger then that's a different story. A Jeff Lacy Calzaghe type beatdown is the worst if you're massively hyped like Lacy was. It's a tough call.
The accumulation of punches / receiving a prolonged beating over 8 to 12 rounds. That's the sort of thing which can strip away a fighter's prime and potentially remove years from their career or ruin them completely, ala Lacy against Calzaghe.
Getting beat down over 12 (Vitaly vs Briggs style for instance) must be the worst for a fighter. I don't get the "Winning a robbery/bogus decision" part, because the ones winning are usually quite happy with it, often denying (as their fans) that a robbery actually took place. It's the LOSERS of a bogus decision that are way worse off.
I’m going with accumulation/beatdown.... most of the other ones are redeemable in some way but a massive beatdown can take a lot out of a fighter and forever change them in one night.
I guess with the bogus decisions or wins by disqualifications, I am thinking of Montell Griffith, Timothy Bradley, and Jeff Horn. Not so much with Griffith in that he was blitzed in the rematch by RJJ but Bradley and Horn were given gift decisions but their career have not or had not taken off in a meteoric way that they imagine or imagined they would. This is just a thought on my part. It didn't hurt them in terms of causing a career downturn but it didn't advance their career either.
I believe in what Angie Dundee always said---a long tough bout ending in a late ko loss. Very very difficult to come back from and usually it starts the downside of the mountain. And sometimes that can be a rapid plummet. And sometimes it ruins fighters.
A fighter should never have to quit, if hes taking that much of a beating his corner should do it for him
Got to be the beatdown. Some guys never come back from it. Quitting i dont mind if they,ve had a proper go. I still say the worst is guys that run for 12 roundz like scuba steve tends to do.
