The Worst Beating Ever Taken in Boxing

Yes, versus Jeff Sims in his Ninth pro fight. Biggs fought one handed for 8 rounds.Sims was rated 5 by the WBA going into the fight.

 

My brother knew his family pretty well, the drugs ended after rehab in 84, but there were other lifestyle issues.Drugs were replaced by drink.Tyrell , or Burt as he's known, is a good guy.He found himself in a world he struggled to cope with. He was married and had a son at a young age, after his loss to Tyson, his marriage broke up and he says the money went on women and lawyers.He fought on for the paydays and admits he wasnt as dedicated post Tyson.Never heard anything bad about him other than a decent guy who would admit to his failings.My own assesment was he lacked a little self belief.Still fought for the title and won Olympic Gold , that aint nothin !

 

This is true.It must be hard to know when to walk away.You are a long time retired and it must be hard to walk away from the fame and adulation. Whatever you do later, is never gonna replace it.

 

Well, I'm going to throw this out there anyway, even though it's MMA.

Igor Vovchanchyn vs Enson Inoue was the worst pummelling I have ever seen where the losing fighter did not actually die.

 

That was horrible to watch - what a merciless beating! Did Dundee owe the referee money or something?

 

Mike Perez vs Magomed Abdusalamov

 

Briggs vs. Vitali, Briggs took enough punishment that should have killed 3 boxers.

 

He was still shakey with substances...the Duvas couldn't wait to get him in there with tyson....Tyrell is one helluva man..still as handsome as back than ...same flat top...coaches youngsters ...the disappointment of his pro career is greatly reduced when u think this man was olympic champion 1984..he travelled the world.......this stage of his life he has been very productive helping others...one of the good guys

 

Igor vovchanchyn was one of my favourite fighters ever...I loved seeing him in those 32 man Russian tournaments...the whole early nhb era..they knew how to build stars and superfights...Igor wins a few Russian tournaments...the gracies win ufc..Marco ruas and Oleg taktarov..shamrock..severn..do their thing...let's all put them in a Japanese organization PRIDE and have superfights stacked superfights cards....that whole era ...we will never see the like of...in mma....although I'm very very impressed by the women's bantamweight divisiin

 

Yes,its good he's getting kind comments.Just a quick footnote , he stayed with Duva/Main events until after his fought Damiani a full year after Tyson.From what i recall they parted company because once again he cut badly,this time over the alternate eye.He had plastic surgery over the other from the Tyson fight ,although the cut originated from the Bey fight. Ironically he never suffered another cut in his career after that .

 

The Duvas were sure arrogant prematurely dropping guys in that period after a single loss...McCallum, biggs,bumphus were unbeaten or had very winning records.Johnny of course had issues.pazienza was told to retire at age 26 by lou

 

Yes, he fought with a broken collarbone against Jeff Sims.

At the time, the experts thought it was a very good performance.

He seemed to regress, though, in the Snipes and Bey fights. It could be, though, that Snipes and Bey were a little better than Sims.

By the time of the Tyson fight, few gave him any shot as he had not looked particularly good against Snipes and Bey.

Basically, he got a shot at Tyson without ever beating a legitimate top 10 contender.

Obviously, his Olympic pedigree helped greatly in making a Tyson matchup economically lucrative for all involved.

 

They didn't drop Biggs or Bumphus prematurely. It was obvious Biggs would probably not recover from the Tyson beatdown. They, somehow, got a faded Bumphus a shot at Honeyghan. At least they got each a good payday before releasing them.

It's debatable whether they dumped Pazienza too early. They stayed with Pazienza until after the Roger Mayweather loss. You have to look at it from their point of view. Pazienza had lost the 135 title to Haughen and they got him a 140 lb title shot. It probably looked like he wasn't going to get another shot anytime soon.

They stayed with Meldrick Taylor until it was obvious he was damaged goods - after the Christana Espana loss.

Interestingly, one guy they stuck with was Rocky Lockridge. I believe he was one of their first fighters.

I think Holyfield and McCallum may have actually left them for other management/promotion.

Obviously, their longest lasting relationship was probably with Pernel Whitaker.

Kudos to Whitaker for sticking with them, because he could have jumped ship anytime after 1989 if he had wanted to.

 

There's some good beatings in the Chacon/Boza Edwards/Limon/Navarette series.

 

IMO that bout lasted way too short to be considered as the kind of beating being referenced in this thread. A beatdown given over a number of rounds in which the fighter is badly hurt is what the author of the thread was looking for. At least that's how I took it.