Cruelty in the boxing ring

Ali Terrell
Ali Patterson
Ali could be a cruel ####

 

Wilder against Washington.

Wilder pretended to be a sitting duck for Washington's jab getting smacked all around the ring with it. In reality, he was preparing to crush GW's dreams later on. A total set up. Such diabolical evil!

 

The referee in the duran moore fight. Watch the ref closely in the final round. Hes either some kind of sadistic psycopath or drunk. He seemed so mesmerized by the way Duran tore into moore that he did not even think anout stopping the fight.


Kovalev obviously prolonged the pascal rematch to really punish him.

 

Naz had a particular cruel streak .He didn't come across as the nicest of fellas .

 

LOL the Duran ref probably wanted to see how disfigured Moore could become before he got stopped. Although, credit to Moore, he never stopped fighting back. Maybe that played a role.

 

He is a ****.

 

Jorge Gonzalez v Renaldo Snipes.

 

Duran seemed to be enjoying it too.

 

Chavez v Haugen

 

True and a fat one at that !

 

Ali called Chuvalo "The Washerwoman"....and Chuvalo just laughed....because George knew he was
"The Washerwoman". ("He's the toughest guy I ever fought," Ali said of Chuvalo after the bout.)
1966-03-29

• "I ran around the country without any luck looking for a state where we could have the fight," said Bob Arum, who was secretary of Main Bout, a corporation formed to manage the ancillary promotional rights to Ali's fights. "Finally, I took it to Montreal and then it was Toronto and then Terrell pulled out and we wound up with Ali-Chuvalo." It was the first fight Arum ever promoted. [2]
• Chuvalo took the fight on 17 days' notice.
• On a round basis, the Associated Press scored the fight 13-2. The AP gave Chuvalo rounds two and four. [3]
• 13,540 fans attended the fight. "The gate for the fight was $120,000," Arum said. "We got $40,000 more for closed-circuit revenues, and $20,000 for foreign rights. Of that $180,000 take, Ali got $90,000, Chuvalo got $35,000 to $40,000. Out of what was left, I paid expenses and my credit card. There was no profit." [4]
• "He's the toughest guy I ever fought," Ali said of Chuvalo after the bout.
• Ali was ringside when Chuvalo defeated Mike DeJohn by 10-round majority decision in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 27, 1963. In the second round, DeJohn went through the ropes as Chuvalo continued to hammer him with both hands. Ali thought Chuvalo's attack resembled a woman watching clothes on a scrub board and gave him the nickname "The Washerwoman."

 

I don't know about cruelty, but I can think of several fights where I wonder why the hell the winner continued to pummel an obviously defenseless man who had no hope of recovery in the fight:
Cooney-Norton
Mercer-Morrison
Johansson-Machen
If I'd seen any of these fights in real time, I'd have been worried that I was seeing a man get killed in the ring.

edit:I might add Griffith-Paret, but there was an obvious backstory there, and a provocation, even if not a justification. But the others make no sense to me.

 

I think he tried to stop both Floyd and Ernie.