Biggest boxing mismatches in recent years?

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  1. crazyboy867

    crazyboy867 Active Member Full Member

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    i've been thinking about delahoya vs pacquiao fight and im thinking this could be one of the biggest boxing mismatches since tyson vs lewis.
    delahoya could end up giving pacquiao the worst beating of his boxing career or it could end up in a upset. we shall wait till dec 6.

    what was the biggest mismatch in recent boxing? lets say past 10 years?
     
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  2. Williams27

    Williams27 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    From that list its definitely Gatti - Mayweather.
     
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  3. Jbuz

    Jbuz Belt folder Full Member

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    Gatti-Mayweather by a street. It just looked like the best fighter in the world against a bum off the street. I love Gatti, the guy is all heart and was a helluva fighter, but he was just too many classes below Mayweather. That fight had me cringing from beginning to end.
     
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  4. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    Its almost a shame that all those casual fans who were brought in by Gatti had to watch him get dismantled like that.

    I think some of them truly believed Gatti was one of the best fighters in the world...who knows if they stuck around after that or went back to watching the more mainstream sports, probably the latter.
     
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  5. adub215

    adub215 Active Member Full Member

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    i picked hatton mayweather but gatti mayweather was probaly the biggest mismatch
     
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  6. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Out of the poll, I choose Mayweather-Gatti.

    Other mismatches in recent years:

    Barrera-Kelley
    Barrera-Fana
    De La Hoya-Campas
    Mayweather-Bruseles
    W. Klitschko-Austin
    Jones-Kelly
    Margarito-Gomez
    Morales-Croft


    Morales-Croft is probably the worst. Poor Eddie hadn't fought in 3 years, and hadn't won a fight in over 4, and not against a guy with a winning record in over 8.
     
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  7. pauliemayweathe

    pauliemayweathe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    gatti mayweather may not go on PBF's resume as a great win but he looked DAMN GOOD in that fight...he made him look like a club fighter
     
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  8. TheBradyHawkes

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    It's funny that most are picking Gatti/PBF. I remember an article in Ring Magazine before the fight where they were asking people in the sport who would win, and it was about 50/50.
     
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  9. Royal-T-Bag

    Royal-T-Bag Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    so true
     
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  10. brickfists

    brickfists The Nonpareil Full Member

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    eh none of the fights you mentioned were mismatches.

    the most recent mismatch i can think of was pavlik vs lockett poor gary never had a chance
     
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  11. djoc175

    djoc175 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Pac/Diaz
     
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  12. Uppercut83

    Uppercut83 The Quitschkos are bums Full Member

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    PBF Gatti
     
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  13. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    Not all of those were mismatches.

    Some of them were one sided, but not a mismatch in the truest sense.

    Has to be Mayweather vs Gatti of those.

    Closely followed by Lewis vs Tyson.
     
    Beeston Brawler, Dec 1, 2008
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  14. curly

    curly Fastest hands in the West Full Member

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    gomez vs cotto
    I know its going back a bit but Ali vs Patterson was quite bad
     
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  15. Jbuz

    Jbuz Belt folder Full Member

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    Ummm... what?

    Did you see PBF-Gatti? It was the most one-sided beatdown I've seen in a long time.
     
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