Best losing performance you have seen?

Off the top of my head:

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Vs. Naoya Inoue

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Vs. Gennady Golovkin (thought he beat GGG)

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Vs. Jermall Charlo (thought he beat Charlo)

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Vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (thought he did enough to beat Fluid Jr.)

 

HM- Dwight Quawi vs Evander Holyfield

 

Good call. I was going to say some fight between two all time greats like Charles vs Walcott or Duran vs Leonard where even the losing guy put on a legendary performance. McCallum vs Kalumbay is supposed to have some of the finest technique on display of any fight ever too. But you make an excellent point. What about the fights where a guy was well ahead on points before getting knocked out like a Louis vs Conn, Jackson vs Castro, or Taylor vs Froch? Ivan Calderon was a much better boxer than Giovanni Segura, if a much lighter puncher, and was landing two or three for every one Segura landed on him before the knockout. Then there are the robberies like Gonzalez vs Rungvisai 1 or Toney vs Tiberi where the losers outlanded the winners by nearly two hundred punches.

 

Castillo/Corrales 1

 

Erik Morales Vs Maidana.


Morales wasn't given a chance by the vast majority against the younger, rough and tough, hard punching Maidana, Morales' eye went really early, completely shut, by the end he looked like the elephant man.

But Morales rolled the clock back somewhat that night, he didn't win, lost by MD but showed courage, heart, skill, intelligence and gave it a real go and I don't mind admitting at the end of the fight I was rather emotional.

 

Reminder, Femi got knocked down four times and stopped by a 33/1 shot.

 

Have you only watched AJ fights?

Even if you are only looking at fights "for the casuals" in recent times I'd have thought GGG vs Canelo #1 is up there. Ruiz's loss vs Parker was a much better performance than AJ's loss vs Ruiz.

 

All of Wilders opponents jk

 

16/1 here in the UK, I know because I had money on Ruiz.

 

Deverychenko didn't lose that fight .

 

Corrales Castillo come to mind.
And of course Inoue Donaire

 

It’s a difficult topic really. Easy to slide into fighters who maybe should’ve won fights rather that fighters who gave it all n fought their best fight n still actually lost.

 

What’s the purpose of this? Just to crap on a new guy? People like you ruin boards.

 

The Gatti Ward Trilogy comes to mind immediately. Both good honest fighters, who gave their hearts, their souls in thirty rounds of back and forth. Thirty rounds of sheer will and punishment. Gatti put on an amazing performance but lost the first. Ward did the same in the second and third. Damn, time to go re-watch that.

 

Ken Norton vs Larry Holmes 15 rounds of back -n- forth punching. Best heavyweight title fight I’ve seen. Great heart exhibited by both fighters. Norton may have had issues with great punchers, but he gave, and would give any heavyweight boxer in history all they could handle...and then some.