Who's Number 1: "Greatest Controversies"

[K-DOGG]

I'm the "residential second guesser?!"


LOL!!!! Fine, anyhow, good list BF.

[Liaison]

Nice list. The 2 humorous incidents involving Holmes are great

“He kicked me, and punched me! Right in front of everybody! Larry Holmes kicked me, and punched me!”



That is awesome

Personally, I’d have Liston’s career on top (so the phantom punch ties in with this)

The Patterson/Ellis bouts pretty controversial so I’d have had that in there as well as the Lewis/Holyfield I outcome particularly Eugenia Williams scoring it in favour of Evander.

Good list. Totally forgot ab out the Louis/Walcott deal until I read your list.

[Krucial]

no julio chavez-meldrick taylor in dat list?

[krazyx19]

no julio chavez-meldrick taylor in dat list?

way more deserving than RJJ getting DQed

[Krucial]

exactly because i think he got DQ'd rightfully
tho he was kickin his ass
but Montell was clearly down n Roy cracked em n ended the fight early wen Montell was capaple of easily getting up

plus..
Chaves ruined Taylors career wit that cheatin ass TKO
there was 2 ****in seconds left in the whole fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the ref was on chavez' side
cuz he aint hesitate to call it off wen meldrick went down

[Hydro]

I think the Number 1 should be "Who shot Tupac on the night of the Mike Tyson fight :boobies: "

Orlando Anderson.

Tupac took more shots that night than Bruce Seldon and Mike Tyson combined.

[QueensburyRules]

Who's Number 1?: "Greatest Controversies"

Hello, butterfly1964 here and welcome again to this edition of "Who's Number 1?". In this edition we are counting down the twenty greatest controversies of all time. Before we get to number 1, here's a list of the preceeding 19.



Controversy is juicy. And juicy controversy always leads to juicy debate. This certain incident no doubt will be talked about until the end of time. Here is the number one controversy in boxing history!










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1. The Long Count: On September 22, 1927, heavyweight champion Gene Tunney rematched with former champion Jack Dempsey. Over 100,000 eager fans packed Soldiers Field in Chicago, Illinois. Their first fight was one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, with Dempsey being a heavy favorite, but in the second fight, Dempsey was still the favorite.



However, the second fight seemed to be a repeat of the first. The first six rounds was dominated by Tunney. However, in the seventh round Dempsey pursued the champion. Dempsey countered Tunney's jab with a right and then pinned him against the ropes and landed a succession of punches, one of them being his signature left hook, and Tunney was down!





Referee Dave Barry motioned Dempsey to go to a neutral corner, but Dempsey wouldn't listen. Finally after about five seconds, Dempsey obeyed the referee, but instead of picking up the count, the ref started at one and continued on. Tunney got up at the count of nine and won the unanimous decision at the end. Many people claimed that Tunney was down for fourteen seconds, in what is known for all-time as the infamous "Long Count".

The question is could Tunney have still beat the count if not given those extra seconds? The debate goes on and on.







By the way, this was Jack Dempsey's last fight. He retired at the age of thirty-two because of eye problems.










In boxing, there is endless amounts of controversy. But is my list controversial? Here is the resident second guesser to make that judgement, K-DOGG.




















That will do it for this edition of "Who's Number 1". I'll return next week to countdown times, events and athletes that have shaped our world of boxing. Until then, I'm butterfly1964, let the debating begin!





























Special thanks to K-DOGG.

Butterfly Productions Inc.
© 2006

- - Butterfly Productions did a first rate Controversies Chart here.

Anyone have anything else to say?

I'd sat Zhang stoppage of Joyce Saturday stank to high heavens. They threw Joyce under the bus, the crooks...

[Marchegiano]

I appreciate Queen's Necromancy.

[IronDanHamza]

James Toney-Dave Tiberi

[Tatabanya]

Billy Collins vs Luis Resto remains one of the worst controversies ever, with Arturo Gatti vs Joey Gamache as a close second, and Antonio Margarito vs Shane Mosley (but we should say vs Miguel Cotto, first fight) in the third position.