Bizarre across the board, from "no mas", the fan man fight, Ali's phantom punch, or even Johnathon Banks dropping an awkward decision to Malik Scott in the rematch.
Any other odd fights you've seen?
I'll throw in Ishida vs Kirkland.. I mean really, its like Ishida summed up his HW strength that night and threw the rising sun at Kirkland.
How about Mosley vs Mayorga? Ricardo Mayorga somehow OUTBOXES Shane Mosley and was leading late in the fight when he gets stopped in the last 10 seconds.
Winning the first three rounds and maybe one more along the way doesn't equate to "outboxing" someone. Mayorga did nothing to hold and spoil his way through the fight after that brief period of success.
The biggest robbery i have seen. Bonnani went to fight to Carrasco's backyard. Carrasco was nearly KOd in round six (06.00) when Carrasco's brother comes to the ring and interrups the fight and hits Bonnani. The craziest thing is the fight continued and the judges gave it to Carrasco who was beated up badly and was knocked down three times.
Brian Sutherland/Kenny Rainford was crazy as f**k. I mean B-Suth just didn't have it that night. Nerves got to him I thought. But he still could have taken it. Ref was a total f**k up and clearly was paid off by team Rainford. Also Tuesday Night Fights wanted Rainford to be a future superstar so they stacked every imaginable intangible against Brian. Rainford got to sleep in a Holiday Inn, Brian was at Motel 6. Rainford picked glove size. Ring size. He got a free Waffle House voucher. Brian? Nada. Also swirling rumors of team Rainford shooting up dem PEDs.
Just a crazy night of boxing, man.
Malignaggi-N'Dou. Paulie had to get a haircut midway through the fight because his 'hair extensions' were affecting his vision...:lol1:
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Good call :lol1: That was on the Hatton/Lazcano undercard.
Malignaggi-N'Dou. Paulie had to get a haircut midway through the fight because his 'hair extensions' were affecting his vision...:lol1:
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Watch Bobby Pacquiao vs Carlos Navarro. That was one whack ass fight when I saw it live on ESPN. Pacquiao looked like he had ice skates in the ring. His shoes had zero grip on them and he was sliding all over the place yet he managed to score knockdowns left and right and then to make it a more bizarre ending, Carlos counts himself out with the ref at the end, rofl. It was one sad ass fight.
Freddie Norwood vs Derrick Gainer, ugly dirty fight with controversial ending, but fun to watch for sure
and this http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Fight:1085595
The ending wasn't the only thing weird about that fight. The ref was making his own rules up and just started giving Norwood a 20 count after both Norwood and Gainer fell to the canvas in when Gainer pulled Norwood down in the 4th round. WTF is a 20 count? The ref did a horrible job that night.
Freddie Norwood vs Derrick Gainer, ugly dirty fight with controversial ending, but fun to watch for sure
and this http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Fight:1085595
Hopkins-Dawson I. A main event HBO PPV ending like that. The 5,000 fans, including me, that purchased it must've been angry as f-ck.
Better than Broner's performance I would say.
Did he really hurt his shoulder or you think he could of continued?
Just didn't look like the type of punch to knock someone out like that,
but who knows.
What's funny is I think that Marquez's short right hand is similar to the he landed on Pacquiao. So maybe that KO over Likar Ramos was legit and maybe it was a punch that got stronger for Marquez or maybe on PED's
I went to the first Ricardo Torres vs Kendall Holt fight with my wife and her family. The title fight was held in Barranquilla, Colombia in a ballroom that fits about 2k people. Holt was dominating and even dropped Torres, Round 11 comes around and Torres landed a monster left hook that dropped Holt when the ref gave him the 8 count I kid you not nothing but beer cans and whiskey bottles were being thrown and the whole ring was littered with alcohol. The fight continued and Holt was going from corner to corner to get his bearings back and when he got Torres in Torres corner one of Torres's cornermen grabbed Holts foot and Torres was able to tee off on Holt then the fight ended with a bizarre stoppage by the ref.
The second fight was pretty bizarre as well
Mayweather/Ortiz ending was bizarre.
Lewis/Akiwande was a wierd fight too.
Williams/Sosa, a brutal fight that in the end the Ref decided that both guys were to damaged to continue and he stopped the fight
Golota/Po'uha, dirty fight, Golota actually bites Po'uha on the shoulder after being hurt
what's so weird about that fight? we see the same exact fight everytime wlad fights except he's an all time great and akwindade is a cowardly bum who holds and gets dq'd. boxing!
Mayweather/Ortiz ending was bizarre.
Lewis/Akiwande was a wierd fight too.
Williams/Sosa, a brutal fight that in the end the Ref decided that both guys were to damaged to continue and he stopped the fight
Golota/Po'uha, dirty fight, Golota actually bites Po'uha on the shoulder after being hurt