Fights where a fighter looked genuinely '' off ''

Bowe in the Golota fights. Just shockingly declined. Also Holyfield in Bowe 3.

Duran in Leonard 2. Was psyched out.

Ali vs Holmes. Yes old but also extremely lethargic beyond his age.

Tyson vs McBride. The will to fight was gone.

Margo vs Mosley. For obvious reasons…

 

Golovkin definitely looked off colour against Ouma. He made a huge meal out of picking apart a fighter that he should have gobbled up

 

If I remember correctly, the announcers said Goleta was late because he made it to the arena without his shoes. It was obvious before they even entered the ring that something was wrong.

IDK who would have won if Golota was 100% for the fight. My guess is Golota would have figured out a way to pull out a loss in fight he was winning.

 

They knew he wasn’t in any condition to fight when they signed the fight, his life was coming apart. He was crying for the ring walk, shameful the fight was allowed to happen.

 

De LA Hoya-Sturm. De LA Hoya was out of shape and underestimated how good Sturm really was. DLH lost that fight.

 

Bojado-Rubio 1.

 

Fury against Wallin - overtrained dropped too much weight which he was aware of, sacked Davison off afterwards. Kept trying to slim Fury down needlessly.

Fury against Wilder 3rd bout - 3 week camp

 

Good call. Really bad off night for Wlad. That and age both. But I still think the rematch would have been different.

Rematch would have basically been a continuation of the 12th. Except Wlad would have been fresher. More motivated. And not two years rusty like in the Joshua fight.

 

Ali was already suffering from Parkinsons when he fought Holmes. Yet they still shoved him in & made him fight again. It was obvious he was not fit to fight
The "obvious reasons" in the Steroid Shane Mosely debacle was a sick demoralized Margarito was up against a Juiced to the gills Proven & eventually forced to confess Steroid cheat Mosely. Not the ludicrous loaded gloves claim

 

That's the one I think of. No balance at all from the opening bell.

 

I'm quite certain, Golota was favourite for that fight. I was genuinely shocked at the result.

 

So many have been mentioned in posts already but one was Whyte when facing Fury, i knew he was aged out by the time he got his shot at the WBC title but he did not fight anything like he usually did,

Liam was the same way when facing Eubank, Cotto vs Sadam was a weird one too with Cotto stumbling around after every clean shot.

 

Kovalev vs Canelo is another one i forgot to mention,

Sergey didn't even attempt to punch through to Canelo like he did with many of his foes, overburnt Kovalev just light jabbing, never seen him like that even in the Yarde fight prior he was moving & punching better along with everything else.

 

That was a strange one with AJ, don't know why either.

 

Back when Golovkin was wearing Cleto Reyes, he should have stuck with them instead, there was another fight with Golovkin i can't recall the opponent but he fought him overseas in a different type of arena, didn't look very good either forgot the fight.