Best Losing Performance?

Hagler losing to Sugar Leonard I loved that one. Hagler is my guy, but I admit SRL was the greater fighter.

Bowe - Holyfield III. Evander, fighting with hepatitis, looked so sick and so exhausted between rounds that Foreman was yelling at the ref from ringside, begging for it to be stopped. He thought Holyfield was going to have a heart attack and die in the ring. Then Evander goes out and knocks Bowe down for the first time in his pro career. Bowe outweighs him by 40 pounds. Comes within a hair of winning, but gets too tired to finish him off. Most people with hepatitis can barely get out of bed. Amazing.

Has got to be either Ron Lyle against George Foreman or Joe Frazier Vs George ForemAn both gave incredible performances with incredible toughness and heart

Hagler losing to Sugar Leonard

What was the most memorable performance you’ve ever seen from a boxer in which they still ended up losing? Jorge Linares vs Antonio Demarco.

Discounting robberies: - Prograis v Taylor (scored it a draw but no problem with Taylor edging it) - Baranchyk v Zepeda (what a war!) - Maidana v Floyd (he gave him hell and it was fun to watch) - Gamboa fighting Tank with his achilles shot to bits, same with Haye v Bellew - Froch v Kessler I (travelled to Denmark, was a war and just lost a close decision imo) and Kessler v Froch II (Kessler more past his prime than Froch was that night and it showed, but was still a great fight) - Pascal v Froch

Morales against Maidana Maidana against Mayweather

He did let him off the hook. But that was true to his usually strategy so I can't hold that against him too much in that overall performance. Actually, I've been thinking about this recently and yes, the performance was admirable and a great way to end a career, but... I think what cost Wlad the fight was the fact he went in as if he had something to prove after the Fury fight (and no wonder, seeing as Fury won through frustrating him tremendously and made him look like "he didn't want to win", lol) whilst there's a chance he might have had more success if he had boxed a bit more cautiously in the early going and let AJ tire a bit and slow down (he usually, quite understandably of course, paces himself in longer fights and has "lulls" in activity for a couple of rounds every 4 rounds or so. They had a graph outlining this on one of the British boxing sites I used to follow for a while, haha). It looked to me more like he simply did not have the energy necessary to go for the finish after going to war and having to get up after a KD.

Loma vs Lopez Adam Lopez vs Louie Correa Mario Barrios vs Ahkmedov Kovalev vs Pascal 1 Estrada vs Cuadras 2 Tank vs Gamboa Crawford vs Gamboa Prograis vs Taylor Jamal James vs Antonio Demarco Guillano vs Ibeh Santillan vs Demarco

All robberies and come from behind losses...

Sergio Martinez losing the first fight against Paul Williams. I thought Sergio outboxed him and deserved the win but lost a majority decision. He left no doubts by putting him to sleep early in the rematch but he should have won the first fight.

That’s what I was thinking about. Those two gave us their best each time! The loser from the Bowe Holy and Marco Eric fights as well

Ggg beat canelo both fights and they counted the second as a L and most people forgot how easily canelo was worked that whole second half of the fight.

Holyfield v bowe

Lara vs Canelo Lara vs Paul Williams

Wlad looked like sh** against AJ. He showed heart but he was a shot fighter losing to a guy he would have obliterated in his prime. Not a great losing performance whatsoever IMO.

David Haye vs Tony Bellew I. HAHAHAHAHA :lol1:

Frazier vs Ali 2 Tommy Hearns vs SRL 1. Alexis Arguello vs Araron Pryor. All memorable losing performances. But for me, the most memorable was Michael Watson in his rematch with Chris Eubank. Eubank won the first fight with a razor close MD. Many people, including me, thought Watson had done enough to get the win. In the rematch, Watson boxed out of his skin and in the 11th he was ahead on points and seemed to be on the verge of stopping Eubank. He battered Chris around the ring and dropped him in the last minute of the round Eubank got up, and as soon as the ref called box on, surprised Watson by stepping in with a lead right uppercut and follow up left hook that both landed flush. Watson went down hard, beat the count, but was clearly out on his feet and wouldn't have been allowed to box on if the bell hadn't sounded while the ref was checking him over. He came out for the 12th still looking dazed and concussed, and didn't throw another punch before the ref stopped it with Eubank bombarding him against the ropes. Seconds later, Watson collapsed and was carried out on a stretcher. I literally cried when I heard on the news later that he was in a coma and would be lucky to live, let alone fight again. It just didn't seem fair that the best performance of a guy's career should end like that.

He did let him off the hook. But that was true to his usually strategy so I can't hold that against him too much in that overall performance. How did you guys have that fight scored going into R11? I felt Wlad was 2-3 points ahead, but checking the scores he needed to win the last two rounds just to get a draw. That would have been wrong imo. Great fight.

Off the top of my head Wlad vs Joshua, Chisora vs Whyte both times (I felt he won the first) Porter vs Spence, I'd include Marquez vs Pacquiao 3, but I had Marquez winning that 117-111 and thought it was an absolute robbery.