Most memorable fights that stopped the hype train??

Gomez/Arthur

Arthur had serious hype prior to Gomez man-handling him and hurting him

 

Good shout Dan :good

 

How did i forget, my favourite fight ever.

Arthur himself believed the hype I think, totally unprepared for A revved up Gomez.

 

Mosley by KO/Stoppage was 15/1 on betfair that night.

 

There was huge hype surrounding Venezuelan puncher Engels Pedroza. He was 19-0 (19 KOs) going into his bout with Mike Johnson but was stopped in 9 rounds. Pedroza eventually finished his career with 42 wins (40 KOs) and 9 losses. Very respectable but never lived up to his early promise.

Francisco Bojado losing to Juan Carlos Rubio. Bojado was so hyped he even made the national press very early in his career.

 

The brothers Olajide were exposed by Messrs Tate and Mendoza respectively.

 

barrera and nasseem!

 

David Price vs Tony Thompson

 

Ruiz v Joshua, Zhang v Joyce and Wood v Conlan

 

I was going to go with Joshua/Ruiz however some seem to think he's built his air of invincibility back up again recently (I don't)

 

Joshua for me is a non elite just above British Level Heavyweight arriving at a time when the era was the worst ever seen.

Any elite boxer makes him look like Dillian Whyte on a good night.

 

I genuinely think he was on his way to another loss (via Whyte) before Whyte got suspended

 

Warrington v Lara

 

That bump is bigger than the one Price took hitting the canvas

 

Only memorable to me maybe but John Collins vs Tony Sibson was fun.

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I was young but I thought Colin McMillan was going to be very special until he fought Palacio, then Steve Robinson.