Boxing Incidents That've Made You Cry

I would have cried like a baby if I saw Holmes vs Ali live, but I'm only 19. Still to this day, I have had countless opportunities to sit through it but elected against it for obvious reasons.

Barrera vs Pacquiao hurt me a lot also. He is my favourite fighter, and whenever your favourite loses in that sort of fashion, it'll get to you.

 

It doesn't qualify as an incident, but what's sadder than an aging fighter, one that took a little too much punishment, a few too many good old-fashioned ass whoopins? How beautiful they were in their youth, what grace and style under unrelenting pressure. How affirming is man's triumph over himself. But boxing's a rugged game fellas, and after fifty or sixty or a hundred of these balls over all else goes, they all, even the ones that come out with most their marbles, not too many missing parts, with sight in both eyes, and a little more than just a pot to **** in, will carry souvenirs of those battles for life. We are not wrong to demand the best of them, to scream for more when little do we know they have nothing left to give. After all, as one poster said on another thread, "This is the life they have chosen." But the choices we make in our indestructible youth can sometimes bear out to be anything but, when time comes to pay it all back.

 

It takes a lot for me to cry unless it involves me or my immediate family personaly, so needless to say, nothing in boxing has made me cry. Although I do find matches such as Louis-Marciano, Ali-Holmes, Holmes-Tyson, Mancini-Du Koo Kim, McClellan-Benn, Ward-Gatti (the video of them after one of their fights) and Tyson-McBride very sad. In some cases the victorious fighter cried for their defeated foe, like Marciano after Louis and Holmes after Ali. Boxing is a very entertaining and hard sport, but it is also very moving and touching. It changes peoples lives.

 

The clip of Meldrick Taylor on the Legendary Nights show. They talk about the damage he recieved that night and then show a comparison clip of him talking in the early 1990's and then 2003, I think. I hate to see fighters slur their words like that. Such a shame.

Another similar thing which had a pretty big effect on me was an interview with Wilfred Benitez. I was just starting to get into him and I saw someone on here posted an interview, so I thought I'd have a read. Towards the end of the interview he is talking about one thing, pauses and carries on his sentence, only he's talking about a completely different subject. Horrible. I just can't watch him fight any more.

I felt awful after the recent Oscar Diaz incident, but thankfully, he seems to be making improvements.

 

Why not ask Acelino Freitas?

The guy is a ****ing sprinkler system.

 

There were two fights, both rematches, that broke my freaking heart.
Arguello sitting on the deck taking the count at the end of his rematch with Pryor.
Danny Lopez passing his head dress to Salvador sanchez after their rematch.

 

Watching small snippets of Holmes-Ali. Especially in one part when Cossell was saying something along the lines of "His hands no longer busy, his feet no longer swift" about Ali.

Ali lighting the torch can do it too.

Some various moments with Alexis Arguello, like how after beating Ray Mancini to a pulp he walked over to Mancini after the fight and told Ray how he loved watching Ray's father fight during the father's boxing career, and if Ray needed anything to help take care of his dying father to let Arguello know.

Someone mentioned Meldrick Taylor's appearance in Legendary Nights. Not only is his slurred speech a killer, so was just the sight of him sitting on a bare couch, watching himself get knocked down by Chavez on an ancient tv.