The Worst Beating Ever Taken in Boxing

The worst beating has two distinct elements:

A slow sustained demoralising beating and severe injuries, brusing, cuts, that results in the taking of a mans fighting soul,physical capabilities and skills......so he is never the same again......

Lloyd honeyghan v starling

Davey moore v duran

Jeff lacey v calzaghe

I think those 3 illustrate my point

The ali -holmes beating was very bad too

Biggs v tyson

For lacerating a man

hagler tore minter apart.

For a almost comical yet brutal physical spanking short and severe.

Hearns v duran

 

Tyson vs Thomas

 

Ruddock-dokes
Smith-bruno
Mercer-morrison
Honeyghan-bumphus

Were very bad brutal kayoes

 

Tyson vs Spinks deserves a mention....Spinks never fought again

 

In terms of blood and gore as well as an overall mugging body and head it is hard to top Dempseys destruction of Willard.

 

Honeghan vs Curry....

 

Jose Torres vs Willie Pastrano

 

Dempsey/Willard and Ike Williams/Beau Jack always astounded me...sheer violence.

 

The crime against Billy Collins Jr v Luis Resto NC fight,10 rounds of what must of been excruciating punishment and the aftermath it caused.

 

Freddie Steele v Vince Dundee 1935.

3 round hammering Dundee down 11 times and suffered a broken jaw and teeth knocked out.

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I always thought the beating mike McCallum put on Michael Watson was another lacey-calzaghe....some said the fight was fairly close but I saw it as a shutout as Watson fought v poorly by his standards.

Remarkably he only came back stronger in the Eubanks fights.Watson was young and fast improving. I have no doubt if the terrible accident in 1991 hadn't occured, Watson like Benn and Eubanks would have had a long title reign say a wba belt for five, six defences before a Benn rematch

 

Patterson vs Johansson I

 

Foreman vs Chuvalo (Frazier vs Chuvalo wasn't very pretty either.)
Dempsey vs Willard could discourage someone from being a boxing fan.
Duran vs Moore -A brutal beating and a biased, incompetent referree who let Duran use every dirty trick in the book, and cornermen who obviously didn't give a hoot for their overmatched fighter. Horrible.

 

Willard's injuries seem to have been quite exaggerated as time has gone by. He drove himself and his wife back to Kansas a couple days later. And he actually had some good wins later.

I would add Chavez-Taylor I to the list.

 

Douglas-Tyson