Certainly cant be the example of this thread. Nando as done but went out on his terms,at home in a full Staples Center in a competitive fight.
Hated seeing Pipino Cuevas later in his career. He wasn't particularly old, just too much wear on the tread. Duran vs Joppy was one of those old man freak show mismatches that only boxing and MMA can produce.
No, I mean Pavlik. The tall guy from middleweight. He outjabbed Hopkins to the face. It was sad. They used a condom full of cold water on his eye and there was a guy with a fan on his back that landed in the middle of it and a small riot where he got beated up upon but was okay and has since died some years later but the fight went on and Pavlik just kepped on jabbing him into ubsmition.
Probably Danny Williams, he beats Tyson 20 years ago and now hes fighting 4 rounders in eastern Europe and losing to ex lightweights
lol No. I was friends with his family in Port Antonio and his nephew got him with a steel pipe or something. He was much bigger than Hopkins and liked to wear his socks real high.
Watching Frazier fighting Floyd Cummings to a draw was not a great view. Not tragic by any stretch of imagination, but just that. Sad.
All three of the kings of 1970's heavyweight boxing had sad ends to varying degrees. Foreman himself fought to almost 50 in increasingly dull cash grabs against hype jobs with glossy undefeated records. Every other fight turned into a close crawl like the Schulz & Morrison bouts, among others. Being unable to separate yourself in any meaningful way from someone like Lou Saverse, as the former lineal champion isn't a good look. Nor is losing to Tommy Morrison.
It's frankly a small miracle this version of Shavers managed to post a W earlier in '95...in fact just two months before this, over a more toothless Brian. He probably should have left well enough alone with that one.
Yeah winning a fight against just about anyone at 50 after like 30 years of wear and tear is a small miracle in itself.