Fighters who took severe beatings, but won

[BennyST]

The first fight that comes to mind is Castro/Jackson I. Castro was cut, swollen, bleeding and tired...then Jackson hurt him badly with a straight left hand. When it looks like there's nothing left for Castro to do but fall over, he lands a monstrous left hook and flattens Jackson. Jackson managed to get up a couple of times after that but was effectively done from the single left hand. Crazy.

Ahhh yes! That fight was brutal. The cut over Castro's eye was bad enough to have the fight stopped rounds earlier than it did eventually stop, though by Castro's hook and not the ref.

I can't ever remember Castro being hurt like that either. Numerous times throughout that fight he looked bad enough to go down and out.

[1SILVA]

Who were some fighters who took some severe beatings only to come back and win their fights?

Was there ever a fighter who collapsed after he won a fight from a blood clot?

Saad Muhammad in both of his fights against Marvin Johnson and his 1980 FOTY against Yaqui Lopez. He had no business recuperating and coming back to win by ko in all three fights. The Ultimate Warrior

[1SILVA]

Who were some fighters who took some severe beatings only to come back and win their fights?

Was there ever a fighter who collapsed after he won a fight from a blood clot?

Carl Thompson against David Haye and both fights against Eubank. Took an incredible amount of punishment and came back to win both fights.

[Ringthebell]

Bobby Chacon-Boza Edwards
Almost any Bazooka Limon fight.

[The_Demon]

margarito took quite a lot of punishment against cotto before coming on strong

andrade-bute 1 aswell.i know he didnt get the W due to some bad reffing but he definitly should have

[TOBYLEE1]

There are a lot of good mentions here, especially that Castro/Jackson. Castro kept wipping the blood of his eye with the ref's shirt sleeve.

Mickey Ward vs Alfonso Sanchez Ward was beat and lost every round including a knockdown on the 5. He eventually connects a left hook to the body and eventually KO's Sanches

[#1Assassin]

lots of good choices so far.

one that hasnt been mentioned yet is hagler-mugabi. that fight was a war, and mugabi was one of the heardest punchers ever. he caught hagler with some shots that wouldve put an elephant down, they went at it round after round until mugabi just broke down. hagler took a beating that night for sure.

mcclellan-jackson I is another one. some ppl dont know mcclellan was brain damaged in that fight, he was just finished of so to speak in the benn fight. thats another example of two brutal punchers going at it, jackson caught gerald with some shots that would put a normal man down for the weekend, gerald was beaten up, tired and hurt and then out of nowhere flattened jackson with one of the nastiest combinations i ever seen. u can see geralds reaction after dropping jackson, and after the fight was over he cried out of happiness. his head was all lumpy after teh fight.

[sikwatee]

Ali-Frazier 3.

[patscorpio]

david izon vs derrick jefferson - jefferson hands out what is in hindsight a career ending beating to izon however he threw so many punches that jefferson gassed out big time and izon stops him

[Gojira]

Carl thompson vs Sebastian Rothman