Fights Where Fighters Were Visibly Scared Of Their Opponent

[QueensburyRules]

- - Young Clay went into a full meltdown at the 1st Liston weighin and couldn't pass the physical.

Angie got him into a private room to calm down so he could pass on the 2nd attempt, so Clay lucky the docs didn't call off that fight. Then he tried to quit in the middle of that fight, but again, Angie wouldn't let him.

Then he announced his name change to Cassius X until Elijah changed it into Muhammad Ali. Nothing Angie could do about that.

Yup, the way it was, is, and always shall be forever more, forevermore...

[just the facts]

Ryan's last fight at 135, January of 2021, he weighed exactly 135 as did Luke Campbell. Ryan was 22. When he was 20 he was fighting at 130. I think we can agree that the Ryan who fought Campbell could not have fought at 130 anymore. Ryan has fought twice since the Campbell fight, both fights over 135, and appears to be physically stronger and more muscular. I say appears because I'm just looking at pictures but Tank seems to agree with me.

Young fighters fill out, they gain weight and they generally can't do a reset. When they try, they are more often than not bitterly disappointed.

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I don't like this fight, that isn't a newsflash I suppose. I'd rather see Ryan at full strength fighting one of his rivals at 140. I'd rather see Tank fight one of his rivals at 135. Instead we get this shyt which, when it's over, what did it prove?

I keep making an argument for fair play but apparently that’s not a thing to you. Doesn’t matter, 136 and rehydration clause were agreed to.



The obvious answer is $$$$$. There’s not another fighter 135-140 that either of these two could make as much as vs each other.

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curtis stevens after ggg dropped him

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In Shapiro’s book apparently when Tyson had his hands wrapped Team Spinks felt they could see lump under the wraps and wanted Tyson to have his hands re-wrapped. This caused tensions to boil over a bit and Tyson told Kevin Rooney to inform Spinks that Mike was gonna seriously hurt him.

Not sure how true that story is and how much the threat from Mike actually shook Spinks but he did look legitimately scared walking to the ring that night so I somewhat believe it.

Story goes Tyson re-wrapped his hands but Tyson started punching holes in the walls LMFAO


Spinks heard all that

[Sid-Knee]

Smith did not belong at 168 anymore. Did you see him beaten up by Ryder?

You can add that into it too. Canelo wanted nothing to do with him until he saw his performance against Ryder also. Canelo calculates everything to make sure his opponents are at their worst before going there. If they're good to go, he's not interested. It most certainly wasn't of Callum's doing all of that.

[Roadblock]

That’s called nerves. He wasn’t scared of Liston. If you don’t get at least a little nervous before a fight then you’re done. Spinks was scared of Tyson. To me, “scared” is something that immobilizes you and destroys your game plan. Nervous is something different.

Very true, the nervous system is not fear of real world but the inner world, you generally don't fear what you fully understand, its anxiety or nerves firing at a heightened level triggered by the subconscious thoughts which can have nothing to do with fear of an opponent, like Golota having a panic attack right before Bowe, or McCall losing his mind during the Lewis fight, both instance can have nothing to do with the opponent, people with a heightened nervous system can be triggered internally at any time for no apparent reason, its a very deep subject if you dig into it.

The trouble with a look of fear is it can be miss-interpreted from a look of intense focus and concentration.

[NC Uppercut]

Has to go to Bruce Seldon vs Mike Tyson!!! Bruce about fell down the ring before he was in the there. Man he was so scared it looked like a bully against a cat!

[just the facts]

No he didn't

Thought he should have considering he had a drained green 22 yr old skeleton corpse of canelo and an old past his prime mosley.

Floyd is bitxh made a sissy boy.

Excuses! A mere 4 months before he fought Floyd, Canelo weighed in at 153 1/2. Four months later, he weighs in at 152 and you claim he’s a drained corpse. Maybe he just played too much golf (another one of your bu!!shyte excuses).

[EmpiresBoxing]

Rigondeaux vs casimero. Rigo don't even want to throw a punch just to distance himself against cas.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Gatti looked shaken during his entrance against Floyd. He jumped up when the fire works went off and it was for his own ring entrance lol.