Worst Heavyweight Title Fight?

I say it again..

The night WBO champ Tommy Morrison's opponent pulled out of the fight on the day of the fight. Mike Black hurculese Williams... and a Tim Tomasheck was pulled (beer in hand) out of the cheap seats and into a set of drawers to challenge for the world title.. (Commission please .... Hello where were the regulation people????) Tommy gave Timmy a spanking for the obscene time it lasted.. It should never have been allowed but it was .. The worst heavyweight championship fight................

 

I hate the "Mismatch / Blow-Outs" the most.....

 

Screw that chit. The WBO did NOT count until roughly the beginning of the 21st century.... Back in the 90's, the WBO was BOGUS!:|

MR.BILL

 

Skelton/ Chag if you consider that to be a title fight.

 

I'd favor Ruiz over Briggs now that I think about it, actually.

 

The worst heavyweight title fight in recent memory. I was tearing my hair out watching that one.

 

Surprised no-one else thought of this one.
When the ref is threatening both guys with disqualitication if they don't actually fight, you know you've got a stinker on your hands. It was absolutely diabolical.

Tomashek just wanted to goof around. He was all giddy about getting this tv time and wanted to play about. Morrison on the other hand was highly pissed off, and Tomashek's clowning really did not help matters as Tim stuck his tongue out and did Ali shuffles and so on. Since he just wanted to do that and survive as long as possible, he was able to keep tying Tommy up and blocking his stuff. Tommy wanted to look good making his first WBO defence in front of a packed home crowd. Tim just wanted to play the fool.

Wouldn't have wanted to be a fly on the wall of Morrison's locker room after that 'fight'...

 

Cheers. Ingo and Walcott were certainly very good boxers, but neither was the most aggressive man of their era, to put it mildly.

I've always thought that if Roy Jones and Chris Eubank had met it would be a stinker. Roy would probably be much too cautious of Eubank's power and Eubank would be too lazy to go looking for Jones. Again, good boxers; terrible match-up.

Henry Akinwande vs. Ernie Terrell could break clinching records. Both could be at least interesting, IF they had space to work.

Agreed. Leon had a good workrate and loved to fight; his first fight with Ali is very underrated (especially if you add in the drama that Spinks had an injured rib and fought the last few rounds in unimaginable agony) while his war with Qawi was a definite FOTY candidate. His fight with Ledoux is also supposed to have been a FOTY candidate; amazing considering Ledoux was often a safety-first boxer.

 

Ruiz would hug and grab Spinks just like an aged Muhammad Ali did and win a horribly dull, miserable 15 round decision. Think about it, that's exactly how Ali regained the title from Leon, and all it involved was jabbing and grabbing ALOT. Now that's Ruiz' greatest skill and attribute, to hug and grab. Scott LeDoux actually earned a draw that could have gone his way really, by doing plenty of grabbing and holding. That's the way Leon could be beaten, unless you were Gerrie Coetzee or Larry Holmes and could blast him out. Sorry, hate to disagree with you but the Ruiz curse would come to the fore in this one, and he'd be booed after the decision was announced with his glove raised in victory over the toothless one.

 

That was a **** poor fight! Remind me though, was Lewis champion at the time? Cant remember the year that fight was

 

A proposed Valuev vs Tommy Burns fight would be a sideshow.

Seven foot Russian Giant vs 5' 7" "Little Giant of Hanover".

Tommy takes Valuev into the 20th round, but loses by TKO as the Ruskie collapses from exhaustion on top of him.

 

Havrn't sen Marvin Hart vs Tommy Burns, but i suspect that it sucked.

 

Tony Tubbs vs Tim Witherspoon.

 

David Haye v Audley Harrison! how Harrison got paid for only landing one punch while the 'fight' lasted is beyond meatsch

 

I think probably not actualy.

A smaller pressure fighter frustrating and outworking a bigger one.

I would want to see it.