Which Fighter Broke Your Heart When They Declined \ Lost?

Saad fell off a cliff but to have him learn that against one of the sadistic, intimidating 175lbers ever was for me sad to witness. Dwight Qawi is not who you want to bearing down on you when your legs don't work.
Being such a courageous warrior Mathew would go down swinging. That was a tough one cause I was 100% MSM fan still am.

 

It was somewhat close...Holyfield looked like a beast against Moorer in their rematch. Plus he fought well in the Lewis rematch.

but he was past it.

 

Not so much a fight, but the advert Ezzard Charles is in where he's struggling in his wheelchair is heart wretching.

 

Agree. Saad how been thru so many wars, he was worn out by the time he fought Braxton.

To add insult to injury, I read an article about Dwight where Dwight stated " Saad was never the same after he fought me".
B.S. Dwight, Saad 1/2 the fight when he got around to fighting you. Go fcuk yourself.

 

yes I was there too. Lloyd was a shell of his former self by then . He lost to Starling on my 16th birthday night !! I really disliked Marlon for a while after that . I now think he a very underrated fighter .

 

I was gutted by the Starling loss too. Lloyd was never the same.

I learned to appreciate Marlon afterwards, checking out his two fights with Don Curry and especially Mark Breland.

If you have not seen his fight with undefeated (but untested) Jose Baret (16-0 15 kos) you´ll be for a treat.

Also the way he beat other undefeated fighters like future champ 2 division champ Simon Brown and Tommy Ayers (would later become number 1 contender and blow his title shot by losing a warm up fight).

Another future champ in Lupe Aquino and top contenders like Kevin Howard (before he dropped Sugar Ray Leonard), Floyd Mayweather Snr, Pedro Villela. Unheard of competition in today´s boxing world.

 

Saad was, sadly, past it. You could see it was going to catch up to him and when he signed to fight Qawi, I absolutely saw what was coming. Dwight’s the kind of guy who picked the wings off flies and tortured puppies as a kid … relished punishing people.

One thing of note, though, is Qawi credited Matthew as the hardest puncher he ever faced. He said Saad hit him so hard that for part of a round he was literally seeing upside down — like looking at Matthew, MSM’s body was turned 180 degrees in his vision so his feet were on top and head was on bottom. I’ve never heard of anything quite like that, even for a split second. That had to be absolutely frightening, to be hit so hard that your brain short-circuits in such a way.

 

Starling is borderline hall of Fame material...

 

All of them.

 

I even somewhat feel sorry for the well-known garbage of the boxing world (I'll refrain from specific names) as none ever got away out of the ring without paying his due share of punishment. Violence of the prizefighting is innocence in a sense that the participants both are ready to receive what they give, as opposed to the opportunistically predatory social world of people hiding behind skirt of civilization and civility, and indulging a lifetime of petty transgressions all the while.