Worst pre-existing injuries fighters entered fights with?

[Rockybigblower]

David Haye had a broken toe.

[markusmod]

David Haye had a broken toe.

Hahahahahhahaha

[BattlingNelson]

Mikkel Kessler had a broken hand going into his fight against Joe Calzaghe. The injury meant that he didn't have bagtraining and sparring before the fight.

On a slightly curious note, Ray Leonard claimed all sorts of maladies as reason/explanation for losses to Norris and Camacho. To be fair it should be said that I believe the calf injury for Camacho was legit.

[BattlingNelson]

There was also this dude Tim Tomashek. He was picked from the crowd for an alphabet heavyweight title fight against Tommy Morrison. Tomashek had been drinking beer all through the card, when he was asked to to step in the ring because Morrison's opponent refused to take a pre-fight drug test in the dressing room lmao. One of the most outragerous stories in modern boxing this lol.

So his injury going in was that he was drunk!

[QueensburyRules]

There was also this dude Tim Tomashek. He was picked from the crowd for an alphabet heavyweight title fight against Tommy Morrison. Tomashek had been drinking beer all through the card, when he was asked to to step in the ring because Morrison's opponent refused to take a pre-fight drug test in the dressing room lmao. One of the most outragerous stories in modern boxing this lol.

So his injury going in was that he was drunk!

- -Replacement used to be the M/O of promoters when a fighter failed to show. Ahem, see Joe Jeannette for Dempsey's pre-title Milk Fund Exhibition

Cleveland Williams and Bob Foster have at least one of those kinds of fights on their records as I recall in that hazy past.

Archie Moore's first fight as a kid was being chosen out of the audience in a Mississippi River Town card if you can imagine a mangier bunch n'er do wells and sharks ever assembled for recreational skullduggery in history until Don King came along.

[The Old LefHook]

Duran at full capacity and ready to load a diaper upon entering the ring versus Leonard II.

[JAB5239]

Vinny Pazienza coming back from a broken neck vs Luis Santana

[markusmod]

We now can add Teofimo to the list with his medical condition against Kambosos

[QueensburyRules]

Vinny Pazienza coming back from a broken neck vs Luis Santana

- - Paz wuz rusty.

Not injured, but healed with extensive rehab prob in the best shape of his life.

[QueensburyRules]

We now can add Teofimo to the list with his medical condition against Kambosos

- - Didn't know stoopid was a medical condition.