Gun to your head - could you name 3 fights in history where you 100% believe a fighter took a dive?

Ali v Liston 2
Wilder v Stiverne 2
Wilder v Breazeale

 

Khan vs Presscott.

 

Way more than 3 I can name but I'll add my 3

1. Canelo vs kovalev
2. Oscar vs bhop
3. wilder vs martin

 

Marquez Pacquiao 4, Pacquiao WALKED into a bad intentions right cross after throwing a lazy right jab, after doing a hands down feint.

Cotto Mayweather, cotto looked like they took something out of him, I don't know if it's peds or what. But he was trying to go for the gusto in rnd 12.

Ruiz-golota: Ruiz was don Kings main man. When Norman got booted out of the ring apron him and Don had a quiet chitchat where you can hear the words "fixed fight".

I'm not positive but these are my guesses

 

Ladies and germs, I bring you Ray Edwards and his Sonic boom punch.

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Not a dive in the classic sense but Banks-Mitchell II was comically rigged. Banks may as well have had literal handcuffs on during it.

Wilder-Scott

Seldon-Tyson

Foreman and numerous of his comeback opponents: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-10-31-9911040454-story,amp.html

 

Witherspoon-Smith is dead set confirmed right? Tim admitted to the dive to get out of his contract with Don King?

 

I'm not 100% any fight post-1960s is fixed/the fighter took a dive. Muhammad Ali VS Zora Folley was always fishy to me, though. No I could not name 3 fights I am 100% sure a dive took place, even if my life depended on it. I could always lie about it tho, lol.

 

Tyson-Seldon was the worst I have seen in a headline fight watching on live tv. I was in a pub, there was probably about 30 people there. I laughed when Seldon went down, asked the guy next to me if he saw how far the punch missed by. Clown didn't beleive me, then agreed after seeing the reply. I looked around the whole bar, nobody gave a **** or seemed to think anything was a miss! ****ing bizarre. I thought I was in a pub full of stepford children . True story, no BS!

 

No way that was a dive. Jesus.

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Go to 4:37 and watch the way Hopkins body lines up and generates a ton of power, not to mention it was a rising shot that looks like it landed right on the button, not to mention Hopkins was a much bigger fighter.

 

To name 3
Tyson - Seldon
Hopkins- Delahoya
Felix Trinidad- Troy Waters ( I kinda feel bad, bringing this one up. I don't think it was a dive and Water's was a tough fighter but included it because nobody else will and I do feel that for whatever reasons Waters never had any intention to win that fight. Also, I think he's passed away, so apologies.
If you watch the ending of the fight, it looks like Waters is asking Tito to hit him with something decent to finish it already. I was actually a big fan of Troy Waters, huge underdog, yes but I expected him to do a lot better.
He was a warrior but thought he wanted out that night.

 

I can name one with no effort whatsoever, i.e. LaMotta-Fox, because Jake testified to it under oath. After holding out on Palermo for so long, the infamously bad acting job (Jake couldn't lay down even when he tried) was the only way he could get a shot.

"The first round, a couple of belts to his head, and I see a glassy look coming over his eyes. Jesus Christ, a couple of jabs and he's going to fall down? I began to panic a little. I was supposed to be throwing a fight to this guy, and it looked like I was going to end up holding him on his feet... By [the fourth round], if there was anybody in the Garden who didn't know what was happening, he must have been dead drunk."

 

Haye - Harrison
Wilder - Scott

 

Wasn't that Jesse Ferguson, not Bentt?

 

Fury Ellis
Khan Salita
Khan Dib