What fight made you think 'Im done with boxing'

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  1. The Townsend

    The Townsend Zeus. Full Member

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    Whether it's corruption or boxing politics.
     
  2. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado Full Member

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    Kovalev-Ward I.

    I was at the fight, Kovalev clearly won but was robbed. I have not attended a boxing event since then, I used to take trips to Vegas every couple of years. I still do watch boxing, but not as much as before that, and I'm more cynical about it since then.
     
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  3. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Martinez-Cintron. Cintron KOd (ref counted to ten) but the ref restarted the fight and Martinez got a draw.
     
  4. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado Full Member

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    Yes, I remember that one. The referee was obviously dishonest.
     
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  5. DramaShow

    DramaShow 19 banned Full Member

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    Taylor Catterall
     
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  6. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Kovalev-Ward I, Golovkin-Canelo I
     
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  7. Quina74

    Quina74 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Canelo Kovalev.

    Absolutely disgusting that they would con millions of fans with a blatant sparring session - immoral and ridiculous. It still baffles me to this day that people believe the fight was real. I'm sorry but having a short camp and being somewhat past it (he dominated a heavy hitting cruiser in Yarde and cleanly outboxed a huge Eleider Albarez) does not prevent someone from fully extending their arms and pitty pattying from round 1. It was not like he got tired and started doing it. He was doing it from round 1 before a punch was thrown. Against a guy coming up two weight classes....whose only knockouts were a tiny 140lber Khan and shot bang average Kirkland....think about it... Kovalev had zero extension on punches, zero hesitation from Canelo's punches, minimal lateral/in out footwork, heavy front footed leaning in - all these things he did throughout the Canelo fight which he didn't do in previous fights.

    This demanded an investigation, but we won't ever get one - because boxing is run by crooks. People scream "conspiracy theory" but forget that there is obvious corruption on almost a weekly basis with dodgy scorecards/judges/reffing. They also forget that the boxing was run by the mafia. It remains an obvious corrupt sport but no one does shite about it. The fangirls/uninformed/naive rimming one of the most corrupt guys in the sport - Canelo - does not support this
     
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  8. Blandman

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    Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan
     
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    Fury retiring after beating Whyte
     
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    Oddone Bermane Stiverne's life coach. Full Member

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  11. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So many bad decisions to recall, Chavez - Sweet Pea draw was flat out ridiculous. To stay on the Chavez train his second fight with Randall was a flat theft. He was getting beat up and wasn't going to make the distance and after he got cut the ref asked him if he wanted to continue and he said no. Then the Don King employees at ringside gave him the fight, should have been a TKO for Randall
     
  12. drenlou

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    Chavez Jr vs Silva.
     
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    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pacquiao vs Marquez 3
    Pacquiao vs Bradley
     
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  14. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    This right here. GGG-Canelo 1 more recently. Spinks-Holmes II, Holyfield-Lewis (both of them),
    Dempsey-Tunney II (Long Count, no I wasn't there at the time), James Toney-Dave Tiberi, RJJ and
    Holyfield losses in the Olympics, several Emanual Augustus fights (I thought he beat Ward), Whittaker-
    Chavez, Bradley-PAcqiuou I.

    And that's just off the top of my head.
     
  15. channy

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    Chavez-Taylor, Richard Steele stopping it with seconds to go.
     
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