'Saddest Boxing Moments'

Ottke-Reid.

 

Arguello at the end of both Pryor fights

 

Addie recently posted a clip of Barry McGuigan's post-fight dedication of his title (won against Pedroza) to Young Ali (who died after being put into a coma after an earlier bout between the two) which put a lump in my throat.

 

Cotto v Margarito.

 

Morales at the end of the third Pacquiao fight:verysad

the look on his face

 

I don't consider old fighters losing badly to be sad. It's just part of the natural life cycle of a fighter, it seems. They knew they were fading (even if they didn't admit it) and they went in against a young tiger and got their head handed to them. It happens. Nothing to cry over.

Perhaps the saddest one was Mancini-Kim. Not only was a promising young life snuffed out, but two suicides followed in its wake, a terrible thing.

Aside from the obviously more important human tragedy of that moment, it was a huge impetus for championship fights being reduced to 12 rounds, ending an era.

One could very well argue that all of that was really an excuse used by the networks, and the real reason for the reduction in rounds was how to more easily fit it in a time slot for programming.......that may well be true, but this fight was there to serve up as an excuse, and therefore make the change more.........well, excusable in the minds of some.

 

I've never been able to watch that fight. Can't watch the last two rounds of the first fight either.

 

Mcneely wasnt bad though, took balls to fight tyson the way he did.

 

I remember him praising Holmes for not losing a round...

 

fighters losing has never really been a 'sad' point for me. it is the nature of the sport.

when i saw thread title, Resto vs Collins was immediately in my mind.

 

Whitaker, a few minutes removed from taking a beating from Trinidad in the later rounds, in the post-fight interview with Larry Merchant.

"They did it to me again, Larry."

Kinda funny on one hand, as noone in their right minds would've scored that fight for him. On the other hand, you really see what made Whitaker what he was with statements like this (to say nothing of the unbelievably courageous effort he'd just put up, a lot of it with a broken jaw). He had such an unflappable belief in himself. I think this is a lot of what rubbed people the wrong way about him (as he often showed that kind of arrogance in his fights), but it's what made him one of a kind for me.