Fights you refuse to watch.

Holmes-Cooney.

 

Fights I saw live that ended with death or serious injury.
Lupe Pintor / Johnny Owen
Ray Mancini vs D. Kim
Benn vs McCellean.
Fights A great had no business in the ring and was completely past prime.
Ali vs Holmes or Berbick ( Saw the Holmes fight live refused to watch Berbick)
Leonard vs Norris,( Saw the Norris fight live , refused to watch Camacho)
Benitez vs Hamsho
Mugabi all his fights after Norris.
Hearns All his fights after 1992.

 

Other than those resulting in deaths or horrible injuries, I saw Ali vs Holmes, once, and will not watch it again, nor will I watch any Ali fight after that one.

 

More like Spinks - Cooney.

 

I don’t watch fights that end in tragedy a la ring deaths or permanent injury (or rewatch in cases where I saw them at the time). Billy Collins-Luis Resto would also be on this list of ‘nope’ fights.

Never want to again see Foreman-Alex Stewart, where George got a sinus cavity caved in or something and his face swelled up so badly … it sounded like water sloshing around inside Foreman’s face every time he got hit, and it’s sickening.

There are some super-boring 1980s heavyweight title fights for the non-Larry Holmes belt that I couldn’t make myself watch, Witherspoon-Tubbs being one of them. No wonder nobody took the Heavyweight Hot Potato era title claimants seriously — to a large degree they didn’t take themselves or their careers seriously enough to actually hold onto the belt for very long, and they often look in half-ass shape.

Ali’s last two fights, which have been mentioned, because they’re too sad to watch. Same with Frazier-Jumbo Cummings.

 

When Hearns gets outscored and loses a decision to a past prime Iran Barkley.
Yeah it was easy to see, he was past it.
Though he had wins after the fight, it was clear for me at least , he shouldn't be in a boxing ring anymore.
And probably is the reason he barely can be understood today when he talks.....
His legs were almost completely shot as early as the Roldan fight. ( He was fine as long as he was fighting offensively, but when forced backwards or side to side, it was a major problem)
His height, reach, speed and power generally disguised his leg issues.
Hearns was one of my favorites fighters, I grew up and old watching him.
His career was too long.

 

Terry Norris-Meldrick Taylor. People say Chavez was the one who ruined Taylor but Taylor still won a title after the Chavez fight. After the Norris fight he was never the same

 

My favorite fighter of all time yes he stayed in the game too long.

 

Benn v McClellan I was at the fight that night . I have never watched it.

 

Vitali Vs Briggs

 

No doubt. I already feel bad for Benitez whenever I see him nowadays, so I'm not trying to see what caused some of that damage.

 

Honeyghan v Starling is bad enough for me to watch but Breland v Honeyghan... That's a massacre!