Most Memorable Bizarre Moments In Boxing?

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  1. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    The protester coming in the ring and temporary stopping the fight in the first round of Zarate versus Zamora

    Ray Mercer whispering in Jesse Ferguson's ear supposedly to take a dive

    Don't know the name of the boxers but some Mom coming into the ring and hitting her son's opponent on his head with her shoe
     
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  2. Blofeld

    Blofeld Active Member Full Member

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    Molinares' well after the bell KO of Starling!

    Also not sure what fight it was but Hilario Zapata was attacked by his opponents fans during a fight.
     
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  3. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Knocked out! I wasn't even Knocked down!
     
  4. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    I've seen a lot of boxing but nothing more bizarre than this

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  5. James Page

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    The riot after Bowe vs Golota 1 comes to mind...

    And not on the same level, but the whole Benn vs McClellan fight, starting with ref's preflight instructions just seemed off to me.
    I don't think I saw that fight live, ik pretty sure I already knew the outcome, so may be there was a bit of subconscious impressions going on....but that whole fight just seemed not right from beginning to end, and I remember thinking how crappy of a job the ref did
     
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  6. Noel857

    Noel857 I Am Duran Full Member

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    That was Tony Wilsons mom when he was fighting Steve McCarthy in a British title fight eliminator
     
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  7. davidjay

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    McCarthy suffered a cut to his head that need stitches and lost the fight on a stoppage because he'd left the ring. The WBC made Mrs Wilson interim champion.
     
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  8. clum

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    Molinares was supposedly involved in both of these events. According to this, there was some fracas after Zapata got dragged to the canvas, and it ended with Molinares (I guess in the corner of his countryman Fidel Bassa) KOing Zapata. Instead of disqualifying Bassa, the ref gave Zapata time to recover (from getting knocked out?), and he ended up losing by UD.

    So there you have it. Neither of Molinares's greatest knockouts actually went into the record books as a KO.
     
  9. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Maternal instincts never die. :D
     
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  10. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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  11. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Paulie Malignaggi getting livid over an opponent stealing his ‘side piece’ was pretty bizarre.
     
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  12. catchwtboxing

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    By Bazooka Limon!

    That was going to be my answer.

    I will also add the Larry Holmes drop-kick

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  13. ikrasevic

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    I think Golota would be the champion of the bizarre. From neck biting (like a vampire), to low blows and disqualification, to simply walking out of the ring. I don't know another heavyweight with so many incidents.
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  14. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    When you thought you’d seen it all: -

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  15. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    I'm pretty sure Kermit stood by the headbutt theory with the replay rolling post fight.

    Margarito also made him cry. Kermit is the MVP of this thread.
     
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