The saddest days in your boxing life?

[KnockoutTheFat]

Holyfield-Lewis I
Holyfield-Ruiz trilogy (biggest mistake in boxing history)
Ruiz-Tua

[El Dominicano]

Terry Norris beating SRL

[roundingace]

Biggest mistake in Boxing history was RS waving off the fight with 5 secs to go to allow Chavez to steal THE most contraversial bout in boxing history. At least my history and I'm only 29.

[Left Hook Tua]

I remember that fight well. You know Tua said after the fight he was hurt in the first round and couldn't do ****. But he hung in there and took his beating like a man. Not even sure more stamina woulda helped much.
He was a tough mfer for sure. The height and reach advantage was just ridiculous in that fight.

agreed. i don't know about the injury thing though. everytime a fighter losses it always seems they had in "injury" that hampered them.

i don't know how much more stamina would've helped either considering lennox was at his physical and technical prime and as you say the height and reach discrepancy was enormous.

but...... i have no doubt that at 220 lbs. tua would've been able to pressure a lot better and with lennox's average chin you never know what could happen. i consider prime tua a level up on rahman or mccall and they got lucky against lennox. unfortunately lennox didn't dare take tua lightly as he did mccall , rahman and later vitali.

[Guest]

what is a ref supposed to do when you don't respond to his call?

agreed. i don't know about the injury thing though. everytime a fighter losses it always seems they had in "injury" that hampered them.

i don't know how much more stamina would've helped either considering lennox was at his physical and technical prime and as you say the height and reach discrepancy was enormous.

but...... i have no doubt that at 220 lbs. tua would've been able to pressure a lot better and with lennox's average chin you never know what could happen. i consider prime tua a level up on rahman or mccall and they got lucky against lennox. unfortunately lennox didn't dare take tua lightly as he did mccall , rahman and later vitali.

Tua said he was hurt by a hard right, not an injury. He manned up and said that. He didn't claim injury... for what it's worth.

[Left Hook Tua]

Biggest mistake in Boxing history was RS waving off the fight with 5 secs to go to allow Chavez to steal THE most contraversial bout in boxing history. At least my history and I'm only 29.

yeah that fight was amazing. when i saw that fight , the whole time i was like damn meldrick is schooling julio.

......then later you look at meldricks face in between rounds and i was like how the hell did he get so beat up? julio had devastating power. not one punch ko power but brutal , hurting , damaging power ala duran and now cotto.

[Left Hook Tua]

Tua said he was hurt by a hard right, not an injury. He manned up and said that. He didn't claim injury... for what it's worth.

oh okay. that i wouldn't doubt. he took some shots from lennox.

[Left Hook Tua]

Holyfield-Lewis I
Holyfield-Ruiz trilogy (biggest mistake in boxing history)
Ruiz-Tua

yeah i saw the 1st lewis-evander fight at this club in el monte with the sound off. when i found out the result i was like wtf?

the ruiz-holy trilogy was painful more than sad. ****! the third world didn't even want the third. wasn't dumbass king trying to hold it in china and they turned it down?

ruiz-tua was the most beautiful sight in the world! how ruiz changed his style after that was not......

[KILLA RIGHT]

By far seing Roy getting ko

[PRp4p757]

Name some of the saddest days that you've had watching boxing. I'm just talking about the fights you've seen in person or on tv. Obviously Ali getting beat down by Holmes was sad but i was baby then.

For me it's gotta be the Trinidad-Hopkins fight.

I loved Felix and think he is one of the greatest fighters. To see Bernard outbox him and rough him up was pretty sad for me especially considering I never liked Bernard. Tito has never been the same since then , partially due to retiring one fight later and dulling his skills , and elevated Bernard to the point of being very overrated imo.

yeah the tito-hopkins fight was the most painfull. the roy and tito was kinda tough too.