What Are Some Of The Saddest Endings To Careers?

For me Fernando Vargas losing to the Payaso Mayorga. Vargas would have whooped Mayorga prime for prime.

 

Jesus...Iran fought at 160 and is 219 here.

 

The size disparity was major in that fight.

 

Ali's last two "contests" especially the Holmes fight

 

Martinez is lucky that was Cotto and not Golovkin. That would have been an actual tragedy. But that's the fight that should have actually happened, at the very least it wouldn't have been as humiliating for him because he could have saved some face passing the torch on to the next generation. Instead he cherry picked a tiny Cotto only to be betrayed by his bum knee. I don't really have much sympathy for him in that instance despite being a big fan.

 

I don't feel that bad for Martinez, because he can still close like a bank teller. A lot of these other guys didn't have that level of attractiveness to fall back on. Now, you wanna talk sad, look at how Hopkins had to retire after what Pavlik did to him.

 

I thought the exact same thing as I watched the Jake Paul fight.

 

Seeing Kovalev’s career pretty much ended by a smug cheating grub like Andre Ward after getting robbed by the judges then getting his nutsack rearranged. Then he fights Canelo while clearly compromised it was sad how corruption chewed him up and spat him out.

 

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Kovalev's was pretty bad. If he wasn't EE there would be a lot more sympathy from 'boxing fans'. He was done in by the corruption in boxing which is different to continuing to fight in your forties etc when everyone has told you to stop. He was still involved in these choices obviously and I don't feel sorry for him for making a fortune being a prizefighter but from the point of view of his 'boxing career' it was a pretty ugly.

AJ's end was also quite sad, getting destroyed by someone little Usyk stopped with a jab. Dat gotta hurt, yo!

Some would say Stevenson fought one fight too many also. I disagree. But I can imagine his fans would be disappointed.

I was worried Jake Paul's career was at a sad end after the Tommy Fury fight, but it's good to see he bounced back and destroyed an ATG American HW even easier than the MMA strikers he faced.