Can you think of a time boxing was ever to violent to watch?

i remember seeing a clip of johnny owen getting knocked out, that one got to me considering the consequences. Arthur abrhams jaw in the edison miranda fight always makes me feel a bit sick

Can you think of a time boxing was ever to violent to watch? Magomed kinda hit close to home

I can't rewatch fights where I know one of the fighters died or ended up with a career-ending, life destroying injury. Obvious example include Benn v McLennan or Perez v Abdusalamov, but even something like Gatti v Gamache can turn my stomach when it finds its ways into people's knockout montages on youtube, it just makes me wonder how can you throw that up as amusement for people when that fight destroyed that man's career and left him with permanent brain damage? In fact that particular fight is a really good example because of what a grotesque mismatch it was physically, and we've had several more recently. Garcia v Salka and even Ali v Munguia come to mind, watching some guy who looks like the hulk next to his opponent just beating the **** out of the unlucky guy isn't good to see. Those fights make me think that sanctioning bodies need to adopt at least some level of policing when it comes to rehydration and weight bullying, like maybe having the discretion to cancel or postpone a fight if one fighter outweighs the other by a stone or more on fight night... although that comes with its own dangers and because this is boxing it doesn't have a realistic chance of happening. Maybe the buck should stop with matchmakers. Perhaps legal liability for promoters who put their guys in with monsters and end up getting them badly hurt.

I remember screaming at the tv for the ref to stop it after the first KD he didn't.....horrible :(

Yeah man when a fighter dies its horrible. Now that i think about it, I watched the Jesus Chavez vs Golden Johnson fight and i do remember feeling a bit choked up when i heard Johnson died. It was also crazy to see Chavez break down after every fight after that Golden Schlong died? oh come on ... I wasn't ready for that news :(

Any Fury fight (as to the sheer violence, I'm referring to the crowd)!

There is no such thing as too violent. If they let people fight to the death, most people would watch it. The ppvs for a true death match would destroy every record there is. Only two rules would be no weapons and no choking.

Even though it’s old and the fighters are long gone, I actually had to turn off the Ike Williams vs Beau Jack fight before the ref stopped it. You can literally just see Williams smashing Jacks head around like a speed ball, pleading with the ref to stop it in between combinations. I dunno why but it just got to me. I found that pretty sickening to watch. Refs in the day did not give a f**k

i love a good bloodbath like most fans, but every once in a while i can help but feel bad for seeing a fighter take a frightful beating. A few recent one I remember are Dorticos vs Gassiev-- he lasted as long as he could but finally his body gave out Douglas vs Khurtsidize-- went about 3 rounds too long

Of course I hated it when a boxer is injured or killed but that is rare. It's a violent dangerous sport and I love watching it. Brutal KOs are great fun for me to watch but I always hope there is no serious damage done to the losing boxer and usually there isn't. If it wasn't violent I wouldn't watch it. If a ref lets an over matched boxer take a beating for too long I don't like that. I admire the skill of hard punching boxers who delivery the KO win and i also admire the skilled boxers who don't hit hard but still get their punches in.

I remember when Randie Carver died I was kinda feeling f#cked up about it. Randie just seemed like a nice guy who could box. I had seen him win the National Golden Gloves a few years earlier. He was a undefeated prospect with everything in front of him. And then he was dead. Outside the ring when I heard that Vinny Letizia (Chicago prospect from back in the day) & Diego Corrales were killed in motorcycle accidents that sh^t kinda made me feel f#cked up. Although less so with Diego cuz he had done what he was gonna do & Vinny hadn't gotten his chance yet. That lost potential sh^t f#cks me up. RIP Randie. https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2015/247/97727779_1441473053.jpg RIP Diego. https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2008/108/19310694_120850427015.jpg RIP Vinny. http://static.boxrec.com/thumb/2/22/Vinnie_Letizia_Illinois.jpg/300px-Vinnie_Letizia_Illinois.jpg Yeah man when a fighter dies its horrible. Now that i think about it, I watched the Jesus Chavez vs Golden Johnson fight and i do remember feeling a bit choked up when i heard Johnson died. It was also crazy to see Chavez break down after every fight after that

Not in boxing but there's a lot of MMA fights that have been sad AF to watch because the expectation in that sport is that you will allow yourself to be crippled before you quit. I think it's immaturity from the fans who forget that these are real people with families. They just think of them as gladiators who are there to amuse them with their lives.

I feel that way when I'm emotionally invested in a fighter. Wilder vs Ortiz also had me on edge because here you had two hard hitting heavyweights throwing bombs at each other. Violent fights like that are the ones that sometimes make me think about my affinity for boxing. This might be an exaggerated comparison but what's so different from a dog fight when you compare the fanfare and the passionate emotions in wanting to see human beings destroy each other? Those are just my two cents. But I love boxing and love how it's controlled action. If a man goes down the ref starts the count and doesn't let the other guy just pounce on him. It's class yet violent.

Like a time where it made you sick to your stomach or outright made you feel sad/bad? For those of you that don't know me, I like many boxing dads/coaches live vicariously through my boys (there I said it). With that said, we went to a local show this past Friday and my 13yo was able to get matched right away. The kid my son was matched with had a coach that just seemed like he wanted to get as many matches as he could for his gym and really didn't look for his fighters best interest when matching. Anyways, in no way am I bragging because it is with a heavy heart I say we won by 3rd RD (RSC). The beating my son handed out along with the beating our opponent took, turned my stomach and made me feel REALLY REALLY bad which has NEVER happened before whether watching Pros or Amateur boxing on TV, live, in the gym etc. Anyways, I don't know if my newly found soft spot is a good thing, so I ask, have any of you Boxing fans ever feel that way? If so, what was the experience?? In the mid 90's boxing was very popular in the UK and there were several very good MW/SMW vying with each other. Benn, Eubank, Watson and latterly Collins. There were a series of brutal fights between them and with others. Benn vs McClellan and Eubank vs Watson 2 both had tragic consequences. It took a long time to watch boxing in the same way again and I know people who stopped watching it then, some returned to it and others never did.

Naseem Hamed vs Liendo. Disgusting referee and only fight I can't stand Naz in. Ending was just so unnecessary. Never seen that 1 but i can only imagine Hamed teeing off on a guy being pretty brutal. Sometimes as fans i think we forget the brutality of the sport.

Naseem Hamed vs Liendo. Disgusting referee and only fight I can't stand Naz in. Ending was just so unnecessary.