These are the fights that end careers. Fights where a guy brutalizes another but doesn't have the big knockout punch to take him out of his misery but the beaten fighter is too proud to quit. I'll start Nate campbell v kid diamond this was just a sad up n down beatdown but Campbell didn't have the power to finally spark him put cold.
Calzaghe vs Lacy. Lacy was a world champion, tipped as the next Tyson and betting odds said he would knock Joe out. We all know what happened next and Lacy was never the same afterwards.
Nicolino Locche VS Takeshi "Paul" Fuji. It just went on and on. Jab, jab, dodge, duck, slip, left hook to the body, jab, jab, jab. Locche rarely stopped anybody but while he was schooling you, you knew it. Paul was a physical and mental mess by the end.
To this day I can't understand how PBF couldn't knock Gatti down...he was straight up beating the **** outta dude!
Gatti had this weird thing where once you dropped or initially hurt him, he'd start taking the shots better. Rodriguez dropped and hurt him in the 2nd round, but Gatti took a lot of bombs after that and stood up to it. DLH dropped Gatti in round 1, then Gatti started being able to just take the shots over and over and over again. Gatti got dropped in the first against Mayweather when he was whining to the ref, then after that, he just took the shots.
I tend to think some people exaggerate how bad Marco Antonio Barrera vs Manny Pacquiao I was...but it was still an ass whoopin' and went on for a little too long. It was evident before the stoppage that Marco had nothing left, but he wasn't getting hit with flush bombs routinely or anything like that. Manny Pacquiao announced himself on proper world level...and to Marco's credit, he was pulled out...not knocked out.
I think it must have been an adrenaline thing with him. I remember thinking he was going down for the count on a liver shot VS Ward. Noooope.