Heart Breaking Fights

Hearns/Leonard 1
Hearns/Hagler
Great fights. Felt bad for Tommy.
Tyson/Douglas

 

Obviously, any fight when a boxer dies or is injured for life.

 

Tyson - Lewis

 

Lewis knocking out Tyson was great viewing.

Holmes beat Ali was probably the saddest.

 

Schemling vs Walker was pretty sad.

 

Being a big Tyson fan, watching his last 3 losses were painful.

I can't watch Benn-McClellan. I've seen it once and have no desire to ever see it again. For some reason though, I can watch Quiroga-Anifowoshe.

Resto-Collins.

Panama Lewis should do the world a favor and jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Then the Collins family can take turns pissing on his grave as he burns in hell. I truly despise that sub-human, piece of ****, waste of life.

 

For me, it's Taylor/Chavez.

I have a strange fascination with Benn/McClellan. I watch it periodically and always end up in a strange mood for a few hours. Something about the backstory is extremely compelling. Maybe it's slightly easier for me as well because I believe G-Man brought problems into the ring that night, and it simply was a matter of timing.

Not so for Taylor, who entered the ring presumably a healthy man and left it severely wounded.

More recently, Lacy vs. Calzaghe. As a Lacy fan, that was horrible to watch for 12 rounds.

 

Hagler - Hearns was tough, but my man gave it all he had and gifted us one of the better fights in history. Showed his mettle when the chips were down, never giving up.

 

Tyson/Douglas

Tyson/Lewis

Mcclelan/Benn

Roy Jones jr/Glen Johnson

Ali/Holmes

Louis/Schmeling I

 

You want heartbreak, watch Dennis Andries get up 37 times versus Tommy Hearns.

Or watch McCullough get stopped by Larios, well Margaret Goodman actually but we wont split hairs.

Mind, Oliver McCall's tears versus Lennox Lewis took some beating.

And I had a lump in my throat when Julian Jackson starched the wonderful Herol Graham.

 

I actually picked Lewis to beat Tyson from the get-go, some of my mates thought I was crazy (though most are only big fight watchers)

Alot of 'casual viewers' thought Mike would finish the job early- he started well, though the storm burnt out really quickly afterwards. As much as Tyson probably earned that beating after his actions in the buildup as well as the stuff he said, it was kind of sad to see him in the ring as a mere, aged shell of his former ferocious self. Great performance by Lewis, though as Tyson is always going to be a danger in the opening rounds. He excecuted the perfect gameplan and put on a masterclass.


Saddest fights would have to be:

Holmes vs Ali
McClellan vs Benn
Marciano vs Louis
any fight in which a fighter lost their life

 

I'm only including fights that I watched, which elimates most "classic" matches.

Holyfield - Tyson 1 was incredibly disillusioning to a 12 year old, although it, along with the rematch, actually led to me being a historical boxing fan rather than just a Tyson fan, and enjoying the sport much more.

Golota vs Bowe 1 and especially 2 - watching a guy completely melt down and throw away all the talent in the world for no apparant reason was incredibly sad.

Holyfield vs Lewis 1 and Golota vs Byrd - Disgusted me with the corruption in the sport.

Baldomir vs Gatti - Please stop.

 

Johnny Owen vs Lupe Pintor is an obvious candidate. As a previous poster said, all fights were someone gets hurt badly are heartbreaking, but with Owen I felt it was all heightened for some reason. Very sad.

Herol Graham getting knocked out by Julian Jackson had a perverse hilarious element to it as well, but it was heartbreaking to see such a talented boxer fall short again.

I remember being gutted when McGuigan lost in the Las Vegas heat to Cruz, someone who wasn't really fit to share the ring with him in other circumstances.