Biggest Bag Fumbles in Boxing

[TintaBoricua]

Marquez turned down a pacquiao fight AND a morales fight THEN fought chris john and lost.

This really disappointed me because this would've completed the set of and made them the new Four Kings had morales and marquez fought. That would've been a total of 14 fights against one another, exceeding the 9 fights of the original Four Kings.

Marquez actually turned that down and I’ve heard it uttered from actual insiders in the sport. Marquez didn’t feel comfortable fighting Morales. Morales always surprised people. He was supposed to be cannon fodder for Maidana and ended up giving him a grueling fight.

[paulf]

Wilder turning down the DAZN offer is unquestionably the largest. Can't believe there's an actual debate about this issue in the thread - the facts are all out there.

Al Haymon had completed the massive Fox deal in fall 2018. Fox's understanding was that they were in the "premier position" in regard to what PBC fighters and fights they'd be getting. That meeting with Haymon, Wilder, Dibella and John Skipper from DAZN was in March 2019 - Haymon's heavyweight champion going to DAZN mere months after PBC signed with Fox would have been bad for PBC. The exact details of the FOX-PBC deal aren't public, but I'm sure it could have potentially blown the whole thing up.

So they talked Wilder into turning down the offer, "betting on himself", and then they fired Lou Dibella for bringing the offer to Wilder.

And THAT is why it'll illegal to have your manager also be your promoter. The deal was good for Wilder but bad for Haymon - Wilder should have been advised to take the deal. Instead, he got talked into turning it down and got KTFO by Tyson Fury for a fraction of the money.

These are all facts.

[Spray_resistant]

Marquez turned down a pacquiao fight AND a morales fight THEN fought chris john and lost.

This really disappointed me because this would've completed the set of and made them the new Four Kings had morales and marquez fought. That would've been a total of 14 fights against one another, exceeding the 9 fights of the original Four Kings.

Marquez was very much the victim shady reffing and judging in Indonesia but it was dumb of him to take the fight there. I mean who is Chris John really outside of his home country? make him come to the states or keep fighting trinket shop owners.

[real raw]

Jarret Hurd not enforcing his rematch clause with J-rock, then totally falling out of title contention.