Fighters who gained respect in a losing effort

Malignaggi against Cotto for taking such a savage beating though 12 rounds.

 

this is a pretty good question- off the top of my head most recently i have to say jean pascal...he came over to england to fight froch and gave it hes all.

 

Andrade against Kessler and Bute

 

lets not forget...he boxed pretty well too after the initial storm...i dunno maybe cotto took his foot off the pedal a bit...but paulie lost a card 115-112 with a knockdown....really expected better things from paulie after the first ndou fight....too bad...

 

I thought Winky won that one.

 

David Diaz vs pacquiao. He was outmatch in eveything but he kept going until he got knockout.

Arturo Gatti is also one i have a lot of respect for. I love watching him fight win or lose he always gives his best.

 

miranda v pavlik

 

you people dont know what a losing effort is

most of the fights mentioned here, the loser had a good shot of winning the fight, and some the decision could of gone to the other guy without controversy Berto/Collazo, Kotelnik/Maidana

a perfect example would be Malinaggi/Cotto, there was no way Pauli was going to win that fight after the 5th but made a valiant showing by winning the second half.

 

oh heres a good one...how about mike mollo against golota on the roy/tito undercard

 

from the past couple of years, it torres-cotto is a good shout. torres took the fight at short notice as a late replacement, then proceeds to give us a hell of a fight.

 

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Mollo was completely gassed out very early, im amazed that he went all the way.

 

Bruno v Tyson
Watson v Mccallum
Mccullough v Hamed

 

Juho Tolppola vs Gianluca Branco. Anybody who saw that fight knows what I mean.

 

Klitchko v lewis
Nelson v Sanchez
Barrera v Morales 1
Castillo v Mayweather 1
Frazier v Ali 3

 

Good Call, Wayne McCullough get's respect in all his losing effort's, Because he is a walk forward, never back down Warrior with Balls of Steel and an Iron Chin. One of the saddest sights i ever saw was when the doctor called it of in the second Larios fight handing him the first stoppage defeat of his pro career.