Saddest defeats you've seen

Remember reading a old KO Magazine and one of the journalist said the saddest thing he had ever seen was Obelmejias trying to flag a taxi late at night after his rematch with Hagler in Italy when his corner had deserted him .

 

Any time this one makes you sad, rewatch what Bam did to Sor Rungvisai. He got his turn in the barrel for sure.

 

I would have been but my father was next to me yelling “that’s not how it works!! It would have been stopped before that!!” Thanks dad.

 

Gomez beating Gatti.

 

Tyson v Williams, just seeing my Tyson sitting on the floor looking forlorn. A shadow of what he once was.

More recently, Calzaghe v Lacy, I love Calzaghe and was actually worried for him in this fight. Just seeing poor Lacy getting landed on, spun landed on with no answer. My heart broke for him.

 

How many times did Evander legitimately stop someone with one punch?

Qawi turned it up much like Douglas did when he realised Evander was too good for him imo. Qawi was tough and had a chin but definitely didn’t give his best effort in the rematch.

 

Hatton - Senchenko - out of retirement, slow, shot and out of his best weight class. Getting stopped by a fairly average boxer
Oscar - Pac - watching a guy who had held us own against virtually everyone, follow Pac around the ring while getting drilled was a sorry sight. Oscar didn't have the mechanics to punch.
Eubank - De Gale - watching a guy fight with one arm wasn't great At his best De Gale should have had too much for young Christopher
RJJ was fighting on well past his best, but that Lebedev KO where he looked like he might have 1 last high night in him was scary.

 

That's the advantage of watching the film alongside someone who understands boxing. At the time I watched the film with my cousins and no one understood anything when they started shouting "throw in the towel!" in the movie...

 

3) I was in the arena the night that Joe Frazier scraped home a draw with journeyman Jumbo Cummings. Oh, man, we were all excited about seeing Smokin' Joe on his comeback. But there was no smoke. There wasn't even an aroma.

2) Sonny Liston against Leotis Martin - that last right hand was like a final axe before the tree just fell. Man, you could've screamed 'timber!' the way he fell and lay motionless.

1) Joe Louis against Rocky Marciano - this was the worst. Seeing a great old champ get knocked out and out of the ring. For everyone there that night who loved joe during the war years, hoping there was still some magic left, had to have been in shock.

 

How do you not like Bam? He's pretty exciting to watch in the ring. Relentless, real aggressive, happy to get into a war (see that great scrap with Sunny Edwards), scores some ugly KO's. Hard to see what more one could want to see out of a fighter.

Is it his in-ring arrogance? I guess I could get that. He's only like that in the ring though. During the lead-up to the Edwards fight, I remember Bam being quiet and soft spoken at the public appearances. Then he hops in the ring and is this arrogant mean showboat. Then it's over and he goes to see Sunny in his dressing room, back to quiet and polite. Sunny says to him "I like you a lot more outside of the ring." Cracked me up.

 

Another that comes to mind was a tiny, shopworn but brave Joey Gamache being led to slaughter against Arturo Gatti. That was pretty sickening.

 

Donald Curry vs Linton Curry could not do anything and his legs and reflexs were shot.
Johnny Bumphus vs Honeyghan - Johnny had a hard time getting up the stairs to the ring by that point.

 

I was so sacred that I really thought Hilton had hurt Benitez very badly.