Saddest defeats you've seen

Gomez v Gatti

 

Both Frazier v Foreman bouts
Hagler v Leonard
Holmes v Tyson
Spinks v Tyson
Mancini v Haugen

 

Some fantastic picks here..... Most of them
immediately popped in my head when I
saw the post.

One I don't agree with (Arguello vs Pryor, with the
usual excuses)
One not mentioned yet is Benitez vs Hamsho,
Moore and Hilton.
Watching those three fighters land punches
on Benitez consistently where much better fighters like
Cervantes, Duran , Palomino, Hearns and
Leonard could not, was very depressing,
sad to see.......

 

Chavez vs Willie Wise and Grover Wiley were painful. To see all of the talent totally gone.

 

Taylor-Norris

 

Ali-Holmes
Ali-Berbick
Leonard- Camacho
De La Hoya- Pacquiao
De La Hoya- Camacho (albeit for different reasons)

 

Nigel Benn

 

That's the one for me too. Saad took a hellacious beating in there, sad to see such a courageous and once great fighter past his best.

 

One not mentioned is Iran Barkley beating Gerrie Coetzee.

The guy who was beaten by a guy who was beaten by Estaban DeJesus beat the guy who once beat Mike Dokes.

 

Still was beaten by the guy who beat Muhammad Ali, though.

 

I've told this one before but I will never forget when Norris beat Leonard, and seeing my buddy's dad wandering around the house almost in tears, repeating, "they beat him bad...they beat him bad..."

 

Barkley-Coetzee was the single worst fight I have ever seen between two name fighters. Neither guy should have been anywhere near a ring at that point.

 

Coetzee beat the guy who beat Ali.

 

Coetzee never beat Bugner.

 

After Roy Jones beat John Ruiz in early 03, people were talking about him as a candidate for being the p4p GOAT.

After Geln Johnson knocked him out in late 04, I was worried that I had just seen him killed on live TV.