Worst HBO Mismatches

Hopkins-Hakkar takes the cake. Hakker was bouncing around for the full first round. I dont even believe he threw a punch in that round.

 

Way too many to count. Just this year there's been Calzaghe-Manfredo and Klit-Austin, which are just as bad as any of them listed up there.

 

Tyson vs. Henry Tillman comes to mind right away for me.

 

Pac - Morales 3:bbb :bbb :bbb

 

Fernando Vargas vs Fitz Vanderpool.

The only reason I remember this is because I just had brought it up in another thread, but anyway.. I remember watching this fight and just shaking my head at how overmatched Vanderpool was. Not only did Vargas look absolutely atrocious in that fight, but he was also just coming off the pounding to DLH. Vargas was slow, sloppy, his punches had no snap whatsoever, yet all he had to do was flick his wrist and Vanderpool was all over the place.

 

as bad as the fights were (MAB vs Fana, RJJ vs Frazier, RJJ vs Kelly, Hopkins vs Hakkar) they were all mandated fighters, since all four guys were the number one contenders. Not the fighters faults, not HBO's faults.

 

thank u rj i was wondering why no one mentioned Gatti - Maywaether which was probably the most one sided beating H BO has ever put on

 

1/31/04, Antonio Margarito vs Hercules Kyvelos: We couldn't understand what Kyvelos was doing in the ring with Margarito. He didn't stand a chance, it wasn't even close, and he was pummeled into a 2nd round TKO.

 

Hopkins-Hakkar gets my vote! But the first round had all of the people in my house laughing pretty hard at the way Hakkar would turn his back and run away.

 

Nope sorry try again.

 

Easily.

This fight was so pathetic Merchant actually apologized to the viewers live on air.

 

2 come to mind - and they are Barrera-Fana and Jones-Frazier.....terrible mismatches

Calzaghe-Manfredo was pretty bad as well

 

de la hoya-gatti.

 

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