Any excuse;

 

Think its the 5th anniversary soon,Might have a party

 

#PrayForMrsThompson

 

Every loss ever pretty much

 

Bute Froch

 

Aye, that was savage. And that marvellous bit of commentary from Ian Darke at 8:55 which just summed it up. "He just looks as if he has a dodgy chin Bute"

 

Jezreel Corrales v Takashi Uchiyama

Uchiyama was champion for 6 years,11 defences of the title and with no real recognisable lineal champion was considered the man at super featherweight.Along comes Corrales in what everybody thought would be another routine defence and ices Uchiyama in his hometown.

He then follows it up with another SD win in the rematch and retires Uchiyama for good.

 

Calzaghe vs Lacy has to be up there.

 

GGG vs Kell Brook, eye socket saga cost him the spence fight I know it was the other eye maybe hes just got weak eye sockets, it will go again at 154

 

 

When Mr Curry met Mr Honeyghan

 

Lewis v Rahman? Regards Mervyn The Gee

 

Cotto-Malignaggi.

First two rounds Paulie got dropped, cut and went on to receive a broken jaw. He was the underdog going in but pretty much everything went wrong for him in those early rounds. Still though the cunt put on a spirited display in going the distance showing some real fuckin toughness. Paulie came out with a lot of credit in that fight despite losing.

Hatton-Senchenko. Hatton was up on the cards but his time out of the ring showed here. Was swinging wildly at times and missing. Kinda ironic how one of the best body punchers in the sport at his prime gets taken out by body shot against a fighter he would have eaten alive in his heyday.

Sergio Martinez-Cotto. Martinez was coming off a bad injury to his knees and got the chance to fight a real marquee name in Cotto. Most people thought Martinez would stop Cotto including myself given he was a proper middleweight. What happened can only be described as a disaster. Put down three times in the opening round by the smaller man before eventually getting stopped in the 9th. Martinez body had given up on him. To be fair to him though he never used his dodgy knees as an excuse.

 

Lopez v Salido

 

Indongo v Troyanovsky

 

 

Gavin vs Eubank II.We will never be the same for witnessing that one.

 

Barrera vs Amir Khan. Not a chance of him coming away with a win in that

 

Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver

 

Barry McGuigan - Stevie Cruz. That was heartbreaking.

 

That's the one I thought of immediately. Thought the thread meant more fights with a series of unfortunate events, external factors/things that usually wouldn't matter but did in the end as part of a combination of things.

Tyson v Douglas (lack of an end swell, fight happening in the morning, long count, Douglas having the fight of his life after his mother died) also a very good example.

 

Balboa - Lang 1

 

Bomber Graham getting banjoed by Julian Jackson springs to mine here.

 

AJ-Ruiz 1

 

Frank Bruno v Bonecrusher Smith
Frank Bruno v Tim Witherspoon
Frank Bruno v Lennox Lewis

 

Jersey Joe Walcott vs Rocky Marciano. Walcott ahead on all cards going into the 13th round and he gets caught by a vicious right by Rocky and crumbles to the canvas with his left arm tangled up in the middle rope holding him up on his knees---------then face plants to the canvas as gravity pulls his unconscious body to the mat.

In the rematch, it didn't get any better for Jersey Joe as he got KO'd much quicker the second time around, hitting the canvas in round 1 and failing to beat the count.

ETA: Big John Tate vs Mike Weaver in 80. Weaver, the smaller man by 25 lbs. and a few inches shorter than Tate was behind on all cards heading into the 15th round. He pinned Tate against the ropes and unleashed a hard, perfectly thrown left hook that caught Tate on the side of the head and Tate looked like an ebony tree and he simply hinged at the feet and fell straight to the canvas stiff as a board. Another fight where the ref could have counted him out with a sun dial. The KO came at 2:15 of the last round.

 

Just to chuck this debate off for a second, Gumbo, are there any reasons to suggest Marciano's reign was in a time when the HW division wasn't really that good?

Please forgive me, my HW knowledge isn't that great. I'm more into little Mexicans and Cubans murdering each other.

 

Robin Reid vs Sven Ottke
Golota vs Bowe
Molina vs Kirkland

 

gonzalez vs rungvisai 2

 

Good call.

 

Hatton v mayweather

 

Came on here to say this. Hatton has little chance anyway but Joe Cortez pretty much saw to it that Hatton wasn't winning.