Saddest defeats you've seen

Ali vs Holmes
Duran vs Joppy
Tyson vs McBride

 

If it doesn’t include a fighter within my own lifetime, it’s pretty hard to watch any Louis fight after 1948.

 

Tyson v Danny Williams but more so, McBride. Ali v Berbick.

 

Pacquiao Morales 3

 

Camacho vs Leonard

 

Saad-Qawi both fights

 

Duran vs Joppy,Leonard II and Hearns.
The way the once used to be 72-1 welterweight champion gets defeated like that, it's damn painful.

Another would be Chris John vs Simpiwe Vetyeka,looking at how John just gives up at the sixth after that long reign,the dragon was long gone.

 

Louis after 1948 was depressing to watch and so were the early boxing telecasts. The production values were primitive, the commercials were idiotic and some of the broadcasters themselves were a joke -- especially the pompous Ted Husing and that clod Steve Ellis.

 

Near the end of his career Harry Arroyo fought a Thai boxer who had only 1 fight. Harry won but it was a tough fight. In the ring afterwards he says if I can't ko a kid like this then I have no business boxing.

Unfortunately he fought 3 more times, getting KTFO in two of them.

 

Both Bowe V Golota fights and Ali V Holmes. And most of Mike Tyson's last few fights.

I defo wouldn't say I was sad but I was shocked at how poor Wilder's performance against Parker was - he was a complete shell of a fighter he had been.

I hate seeing massively declined versions of fighters.

 

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“I’m just sorry I let everybody down”

 

Arguello losing to Pryor.

I know that Pryor was a great fighter but the very likelihood of his substance assistance and then the systematic breakdown of the great Arguello has never sat well with me.

Growing up I was a big Benn fan - one of the very first fights that my dad actively encouraged me to watch with him was the Benn and Eubank fight. I didn't appreciate Eubank as a young kidda, but soon found it wasn't just talk - that he could back up his words with heart and character. When Benn was stopped, my heart sank and my dad smiled and said, I told you.

Damn ... Rest in peace, Apollo Creed (I know it breaks the rules of the thread and it's fictional, but to a little Black kid in London, that one hit hard).

 

Chris Eubank Snr vs Carl Thompson was sad, very sad Eubank fell into the arms of the crowd with that one he took his beating and garnered a lot of Iove. Seeing Patterson lose always… you just know how much it affected him and Aaron Pyor vs Alexis Arguello, Alexis was much better then AP but he was old and shot.

 

I wouldn’t call Pryor great IMO why do you think that?