Your favorite fighter's most embarrassing....

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  1. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Holmes's trunks ripping against Shavers...
     
  2. rekcutnevets

    rekcutnevets Black Sash Full Member

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    Bowe's against Coetzer was even better. Or worse, or whatever.

    I don't really have a favorite fighter, but I'll pick a moment. Hopkins during the reading of the scorecards of his first fight with Jermain Taylor. Watch how ready for victory he is, and then watch his face change as Taylor's name is announced. I felt very bad for him.
     
  3. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As a Tyson fan, my list is long.

    *The ear biting incident. More shocking than embarrasing at first, but the embarrasment came later.

    *Appearing on a review panel for the first Holyfield fight and saying "I don't
    remember" repeatedly throughout the show. (He claimed he didn't remember
    the fight at all.)

    *"I'm gonna eat your children."

    *"I broke my back."

    *"I'm going to fade into bolivian."

    *"I'm going to make you kiss me with those big lips."

    I won't even go on about his out of the ring exploits...
     
  4. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :oops:

    Damn.

    I just don't get it sometimes. I mean, I don't think he is an unintelligent guy because he can come across quite articulately sometimes and speaks well on occasion and then you get other times, like the above.
    He's a walking contradiction.
     
  5. Blacc Jesus

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  6. Dave's Top Ten

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    LLoyd Honeyghan v Starling / Breland. How the once mighty Curry conquerer went out with a whimper.......
     
  7. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Can't believe he would bring coke to court :patsch

    Not nearly as bad as his girlfriend's 911 call which got put to air when Pea overdosed after the Bojorquez fight - which in and of itself was an embarassment.
     
  8. Holmes' Jab

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  9. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Sugar Ray Leonard certainly won the fight on paper, but there is no embarrassment in losing to the greatest fighter of the 1980s anyhow. Even if that fighter was past his best, above his natural weight, and coming off a layoff. :good
     
  10. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I was a big fan of Marlon Starling. The time when Molinares hit him on the chin at the bell was scary. Starling dropped like he was dead, got up, the idiots interviewed him and he was like "what are you saying? I wasn't knocked out. He never even hit me." Meanwhile one eye was chasing squirrels.

    Then Simon Brown fought -I think it was Pettway- and got knocked out on his back, completely unconscious, but it stil punching up into the air from a horizontal position. Scary stuff.

    How embarrassing for two solid fighters...
     
  11. sjc

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    Calzaghe getting dumped on his ass in the first against Hopkins.

    I think Joe would agree that is his most embarrassing moment too. :-(