'Saddest Boxing Moments'

I agree about Mancini vs. Kim. I knew the backdrop of the death and suicides after the fight and the guilt Mancini suffered, reducing the the rounds etc, but I had just recently seen the fight. What I seen was nonstop action from beginning to end. To me it was very inspirational in a way that both fighters fought their hearts out and for most of the fight Kim was giving as much as he was taking and refused to give up even though both fighters were fighting at such an exhausting pace.To me the sad part is all the tragedy that overshadows Kim's heroic effort in the ring that day.

 

Ayub Kalule losing to Herol Graham.i could barely bring myself to upload it.

 

Nah, couldn't care less about that.

 

Correct. It was before the 15th round, and McGuigan was cooked. He was out on his feet from exhaustion and knew he had noting left, but had to try. He bravely rose from two knockdowns in that 15th round (as I recall) and somehow lasted the distance.

Amazing, fantastic fight, and a heroic stand by Barry. It took balls to go out there when he knew he had nothing left.

 

Dwight was just a mean-spirited *******, but it made sense given his background. He was a prison-hardened man who is said to have learned his trade there, hence the late start and lack of amateur background. You almost have to expect that kind of demeanor.

Still, I agree with you, especially in their rematch. There was one point where Matt reached his glove out to touch 'em up after an infraction (low blow on his part, I believe), and Dwight just grinned that awful grin of his, smacked his hand away and started teeing off on the unsuspecting Saad Muhammad. Well within the rules, but it still struck me as a really dick move. Matt didn't deserve that kind of disrespect.

As much of a contemptuous ***** as he was, he was at least a relatively clean fighter.

 

In another thread I talked about Angel Robinson Garcia. Here he is in his prime during the early/mid sixties:

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And here he is in the mid 1980s, chewed up and spit out by hard living and the sport we love:

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Thats pretty sad to me.

 

Sad to see the ravaged old man in the second pic, K. He'll always be the burnished copper one in the first pic.

 

Damn, that's a shame about Garcia. I can't make out any discernable likeness between the two photos. There's a guy who gave everything he had in the years he was fighting. Respect.

 

It really is "The hardest game"

 

Nowhere near as bad as most already mentioned but my heart went out to Colin Jones when the doctor stopped his fight with Don Curry due to the shocking cut on his nose. The guy just broke down as the doc stopped it, and put his head down in the top corner rope and was inconsolable. Really felt for him that night.

 

I remember Richie Wenton breaking down in his fight with Neil Swain, unable to cope with the pressures of the sport, his previous fighting being against Bradley Stone, who died due to injuries sustained in that fight.

 

Yeah...that's show biz...even Joe Louis's sad ending with marciano was put into perspective rather well by Joe himself...while he was being consoled when interviewed after the loss, he said "I knocked a lot of guys out"...