Fighters Whose Best Career Performance Was A Loss

Pretty self-explanatory. Name a fighter whose shining moment was the bad end of the stick. I'll start.

Howard Davis Jr. - In a career marked by failed expectation, Davis had to be considered a disappointment to the boxing experts. His fifteen round non-effort against Jim Watt might just be one of the worst fights I've seen, and that was a very winnable fight for him. Watt was nothing special. He remained a fixture in a hot lightweight division for a time, fighting and beating some good fighters, before garnering a second shot against WBC champ Edwin Rosario.

Rosario was favored, with his tremendous power and relative youth, and sure enough, he dumped Davis with a left hook in the second round. In the third, however, Davis uncharacteristically stood his ground and nailed Rosario along the ropes with a straight right. Rosario buckled and almost went down. From that point on, he seemed unsure of himself and allowed a suddenly emboldened Davis to box and slug more as he pleased. Only a last minute knockdown in the 12th and final round edged it for Rosario, though there are several who thought Davis still did enough to win.

As Rosario was thought to be the future of the division at the time, that would have been a huge win for Davis. Alas, it would be as close as he ever got to a title.


What are your picks?

 

:think For whatever reason, I did not think of him.

 

Good one.

 

Yup; better still.......