Worst Championship Fight You've Seen?

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  1. The Real Lance

    The Real Lance Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Either Rahman v Ruiz or Mayweather v Baldomir
     
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  2. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    May broke his hand to be fair.
     
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  3. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The referee wasn't the one clinching and holding.
     
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  4. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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  5. fencik45

    fencik45 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Wlad-Fury was probably the worst fight ever televised. They both should have been suspended for life afterwards.
     
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  6. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The heavyweight title fights that are terrible stand out because heavyweight title fights tend to be good, and even if they aren't competitive, usually entertaining.

    The bad ones tend to be infamous.

    But I'd say the worst title fight ever could've been any of the thousands of lighter-weight title fights (below Welterweight) that I got suckered in to watching and totally forgot about within minutes of watching them.

    There are a TON of bad lighter-weight fights. TONS. Like, where neither guy hits hard enough to stop the other, and it's just tedious rounds after rounds of nothing much happening for the better part of an hour.

    Far too many divisions within a couple three pounds of each other with too many garbage champs over the last 40 years or so to even keep track of which of those champs made the worst title defense.
     
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  7. Oddone

    Oddone Bermane Stiverne's life coach. Full Member

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    Recently was Joshua v Parker.

    Referee executed a criminal protection job by breaking them apart anytime Parker got inside or even remotely close to that fragile, industrial cardboard grade chin Joshua has.

    That referee should be on a watch list.
     
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  8. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Forgot about that. Must have been AJ's cousin or something.
     
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  9. Braindamage

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    Wlad/Fury was pretty bad. I'm sure they're worse fights out there, but the fight did not live up to my expectations.
     
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  10. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm sure most would rewatch Joshua-Parker on a loop rather than rewatch any Tevin Farmer successful 12-round title defense.

    Or maybe cue up Maurice Hooker's defense against Mikkel "Slikk Mikk" LesPierre ... huh? I dare you. Another classic.

    You don't find a lot of people "bumping" old Hooker-LesPierre threads to argue the merits of that one.

    So many of those "title" fights just disappear without leaving much of a trace. Utterly forgettable.
     
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  11. McGrain

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    Miguel Vazquez vs Mickey Bey.
     
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  12. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tyson vs Smith....
     
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  13. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    hm- SRL vs duran 3 ( snooze fest 2.0 )
     
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  14. DobyZhee

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    This..
     
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  15. The Clan

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    Fury Vs Wlad Klitshko
     
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