Saddest fights you ever saw?

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  1. juppity

    juppity Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hagler vs Obelmejias 2 was fought in San Remo Italy. Hagler won the fight in
    brutal fashion with a leaping right hook. A reporter late said it was 3.00 am at
    night and everybody had gone and Obel was alone trying to hail a taxi.
    The reporter later said it was the saddest thing they had ever witness.
     
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  2. red cobra

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    Now, that is sad.
     
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  3. Hookandjab

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    Interesting and that was really hypocritical of those two considering ....
     
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  4. red cobra

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    I've read about that and have lost respect for both JFK and Sinatra for the way they treated Floyd.
    @jowcol
     
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  5. PernellSweetPea

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    Camacho Leonard for me, since Ray already was beaten up so badly against Norris 6 years before. Why would he come back and fight Camacho... I knew he would be beaten up.. Norris put a beating on him also.
     
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  6. Titan1

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    Not me. Ray was conning jokers for real, karma came back and kicked him in the butt.
     
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  9. Unforgiven

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    The irony of JFK and Sinatra caring about the supposedly dubious character of Sonny and wishing Floyd to beat him for the sake of "decent Americans etc."
     
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  10. Rope-a-Dope

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    As someone mentioned above, Pintor-Owen, by far.

    As far as fights where no one actually died, Cooney-Norton. Really sad watching Norton unable to defend himself, taking a terrible beating, and the inept referee is just watching.
     
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  11. jowcol

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    I think Floyd said he saw Sinatra after the Vegas scrap and Frank turned and walked away? His shun always pissed me off as well.
    Any jazz music lovers out there? IMO Johnny Hartman could croon Frank's butt off!!!
     
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  12. Unforgiven

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    It was apparently after the Ali-Patterson fight where Sinatra shunned Patterson.
     
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  13. JackSilver

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    Wasn't the Ali/Patterson fight the one where Ali taunted and carried a badly injured Patterson for 12 rounds so he could repeatedly call him an Uncle Tom and punish him for still calling him Clay, before the ref stepped in to save Floyd? That would have been cruel and sad to see the gentlemanly Floyd suffer like that.

    Maybe I don't feel so bad now about Holmes battering Ali in 1980. Maybe that's a bit of karma there.
     
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  14. Eddie Ezzard

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    Thanks for that, Unforgiven. JFK was obviously after a Liston fight so Sinatra carried on the work of his good friend. Neither one of them fit to lick the shite off Floyd's arse.
     
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  15. red cobra

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    Exactly,...what went around came around apparently...and remember, Holmes could have been a cruel, utter cut throat if he had chosen to.
     
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