Top 10 Saddest Moments In Boxing

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  1. Rooster4Life

    Rooster4Life Easts Till I Die Full Member

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    Interested to see what you guys come up with.

    ill start with Holmes Vs Ali

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drX3_sshbfw[/ame]
     
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  2. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    The aftermath of Taylor-Chavez,Taylor was never the same fighter after that fight.Today he slurs his words,boxing has damaged his health
     
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  3. El Puma

    El Puma between rage and serenity Full Member

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    x2
     
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  4. oli

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    And he deserved to have won that
     
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  5. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Arguello more or less calling it quits in the 2nd Pryor fight. Every time I watch that fight I keep hoping it ends different but it never does.
     
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    Butterbean's debut.
     
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    Luis Resto-Billy Collins Jr.
     
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    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The winner was crying for the loser after that one. Ditto Marciano after Louis. (Years later, Arguello joked about having given up, but later called it quits on life. Pryor-Arguello II thus became a disturbing and unsettling precursor to the final fate of one of our heroes.)
     
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  9. AREA 53

    AREA 53 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    THe Aircrash in which members of a USABoxing Team Died sticks in my mind. (not only a boxing Loss )
     
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  10. Indio-Bandido

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    Im not so sure about that. The ref followed the rules to the letter. Why should Chavez be punished? Taylor didnt say he was okay.
     
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  11. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    After Ring fatalities; for me the ending of the 15 round fight, was the final act of the Classic version of the sport.
     
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    Rumble in teh jungle [cheating by Team-Ali [poison, loose ropes]
    Old Foreman gettin ROBBED VS Briggs
    Foreman getting ROBBED VS Jim Young
     
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  13. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Thanks for startling a laugh out of me in the middle of this deeply depressing thread. :lol:
     
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  14. Peppermint

    Peppermint Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bradley Rone probably has one of the saddest stories in boxing. Taking a fight to pay for his mothers funeral the day after her death and having a heart attack in the ring and dying.....Also any other ring death would be the saddest moments but as for other sad moments:

    Robinson-Maxim. Robinson handily wining the fight but in 104 degree heat suffered extreme heat exhaustion, physically unable to come out rd 14. That must have been heatbreaking for him, so close to winning the light heavyweight title.
     
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    Looking at Joe Louis -- a virtual God to me growing up -- only a few feet away, limp on the ring apron after being knocked out by Rocky Marciano.
     
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