Your Favorite Fighter's Most Painful Defeat

[Randall_Hopkirk]

i really hate it when the old champion gets jobbed by the judges in favor of the young/crossover superstar. Or even when the fight is really close and the nod goes to the youngster. It pisses me off because the old lion will not have many other chances if any

examples
Hopkins-Taylor
Hagler-Leonars
Toney-Peter
Pea-DLH

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Taylor-Chavez (but full credit to JC for turning Taylor in an old man overnight)

It almost makes me cry watching the end of that fight, knowing the rapid decline of one of the hottest prospects boxing has produced in the last 25 years was set in motion. Unfortunately, I'm on your ignore list so you will never read my heartfelt and emotionally charged comment. Pass me the tissues.

[GranTorino]

When Tyson quit against McBride, it was an era definitley over. I was always kidding myself that Tyson would get back in the picture but that fight shown he had nothing left to give.
When he said "I don't have the stomach for this anymore. I most likely won't fight anymore. I'm not going to disrespect the sport by losing to this caliber of fighter". I thought that was one of the most brutally honest lines from a fighter ever, no bull**** that he had flu or something, the guy told the truth.

I felt exactly the same way when that happened, Porlie

[DiEgO_cHiCo_CoRRaLeS]

corrales' loss to mayweather!

[Chipper]

See my avatar and you'll know.


Also Gatti losing to Gomez was really sad.

[col Blake]

Benn loosing to Eubank Benn said he would quit if he got beat to see Eubank win was shocking and the draw he got in the rematch total fix

[TheEvilSaint]

when gatti lost to baldomir. mayweather and oscar, they were just too good for him, against gomez he was shot. but the baldomir fight was a fight that he really COULD HAVE won and if he did, he would have the claim as THE welterweight champion of the world along with a third title in a third division.

to see a fight that he really could have and should have won, for him to lose and get TKFOd, i cried when i clicked "submit reply" when i was doing the round by round and i announced his defeat.

[Panamaniac]

lol take a guess

When Barrera kicked Naz's ass!

[Dorian]

my favorite fighter hasn''t lost

[jmctheone]

barrera being stopped by pacquiao

[Grappler_Baki60]

That is, emotionally painful to you. Which defeat makes you wince to this day, upon recollection?

For me it was Muhammad Ali's first defeat courtesy of Joe Frazier and Roberto Duran's "no mas" against Sugar Ray Leonard. The latter made more painful by the shattered image of Duran as the embodiment of machismo, courage and unrelenting determination...

When Roberto Duran got beat by Hearns.