Fighters who surprised you with gutless performances

haye is probably the obvious choice

mosley, i love mosley, but against pacquiao it's universally agreed he quit by the 3rd

Clottey, again versus pacquiao, was just shameful

going back a bit hector camacho deserves a nod

 

Terry McGovern!

I thought that he was a cross between Gene Hunt and Rambo, then Young Corbett just punked him into submission!

 

Arguello in the Pryor rematch, it was far from gutless but seeing Arguello chose to go out was hard to see

 

Duran v Leonard the third time around. In fact, both fighters failed to deliver that night.

 

Mosley's been doing that since he lost to Forrest sadly.It's been one of my main criticisms of him hanging around so far past his prime.

Oh well, at least we got to see hte Margarito performance.

 

Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard.

In their second fight......

 

Akinwande vs Lewis was a total disgrace.
And how can Tyson-Holyfied II not get a mention.

 

Can't really blame Hamed for Barrera not wanting to fight.You can blame him for being a lazy **** without a plan B,but gutless performance? Hardly.



Barrera just wasn't the Mexican that others thought he was.

 

Seldon vs Tyson and Etienne vs Tyson were pretty bad too.
Although I'm not sure if Etienne was gutless, or took some flop money.

 

sam peter v vitali klitschkso

 

tyson against mcbride...............even if tyson was shott to shitt he should have come out for the next rd.....he made 5 million bucks for that fight

 

His new trainer Jeff Fenech quit, that's why it was a "TKO"... if Zombie Tyson had quit himself it would've been a "RTD".

The final 2 rounds were very dirty, McBride was constantly hugging & leaning (even more excessively than in the previous 4 rounds) with his 270lbs of lard, even pushing the exhausted corpse of Tyson to the floor, whereas the shadow of a shell Tyson was butting like a ram in mating season. I reckon Fenech was worried Zombie Tyson was going to bite off McBride's ear, so he threw in the towel before that happened. Terrible fight, & the practically deceased Tyson would've KO'd McBride early, if it wasn't for Fenech teaching him to throw useless arm-punches, which wasted his extremely limited energy, but did no damage to the whale.

 

Morales opting to stay down against Pacquiao. It wasn't gutless, but I wouldn't have expected him to stay down like he did.

 

Bert Cooper vs George Foreman. After watching Bert and Henry Tillman dig down deep and give us a classic I felt that Bert had the heart (if not skills) to always give us a torrid fight. The fight with Moorer seemed to further validate that notion.

I still think Cooper was paid off by Foreman's people to throw this fight. Joe Frazier was in Bert's corner and afterward was so disgusted that he turned his back on Coop, stating "You quit against Foreman. I don't know you."

Guess I didn't either