Top 3 dirtiest fighter of all time?.

[TheGreatA]

Mysterious Billy Smith lost over 10 fights due to DQs.

Sandy Saddler, Battling Nelson, Harry Greb, and Fritzie Zivic are some old-time fighters notorious for being dirty.

Among more recent times, Andrew Golota, Eusebio Pedroza, Freddie Norwood, Mike Tyson, Joel Casamayor, and Bernard Hopkins are all pretty dirty.

Golota bit Samson Po'uha, low-blowed Rid**** Bowe repeatedly, blatantly headbutted Donnell Nicholson, and had that foulfest with John Ruiz (another guy who likes to bend the rules). People often cry about fouls and dirty tactics (such as the recent Ward-Kessler fight). I rarely do, because I've seen so many fights and come to expect that fighters will bend the rules and have their illegal tactics they use. Even I think that Pedroza should've been DQ'd against Juan Laporte. He hit him low repeatedly, elbowed him numerous times, hit him in the back, etc...Early in the fight the ref warned him for low blows. His next move right after the warning? A shot to the thigh. Late in the fight, he gets warned for forearms/elbows. It only took about 10 seconds for him to throw another blatant elbow to LaPorte's face.

Somehow, Freddie Norwood was not DQ'd when he fought Derrick Gainer. This was not subtle like some of the stuff Roberto Duran did, or the "intentional accidental headbutt" used by Evander Holyfield. He all but picked Gainer up and threw him down, hit him in the kidneys and groin numerous times, but Paul Sita was real incompetent as the ref this night. Fortunately, Gainer got the win, by the strangest of circumstances. He hit Norwood twice in the groin as Sita was pulling Norwood off of him (after more of Norwood's low blows). For some reason, Sita gave Norwood a 20 count, and Norwood "made no attempt to get up", so Gainer won.

Tyson earlier in his career started off with the more traditional elbows/forearms, and hits after the bell, but raised his foul game to new heights after prison. Biting Holyfield twice, apparently biting Kevin McBride as well, headbutting McBride and Golota, twisting the arms of Botha and Holyfield.

ThreadStealer just about covered it. In my opinion the number 1 was Fritzie Zivic. To get away with the things that he did in the ring and freely admitted to doing without having ever been disqualified in over 200 bouts should be considered an accomplishment.

[Heru]

Joel Casamayor

I SMH whenever I see a younger Casamayor fight, the man would jump in head firstthen throw a punch. Most other fighters look unintentional becuase they're throwing a punch while they're coming in, but JC looks straight up blantant with it.

[The Hammer]

Holyfield and Hopkins?

Yes, Holyfield, Hopkins and Ward are probably the three dirtiest to hold a world title in my time.

And there's other lesser known ones like Sakio Bika and Karaby Salem.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

As far as I can remember I only know Sandy Saddler as the dirtiest boxer ever.Do you know other dirty fighters.

Margarito was not proven as of yet.

you remember watching Sandy Saddler? and if you were old enough to watch Saddler, your next 'candidate' thru ALL that time is Margarito?

[tocayito1]

by far its andrew golota

holyfield and bhop are there too

[Thread Stealer]

I SMH whenever I see a younger Casamayor fight, the man would jump in head firstthen throw a punch. Most other fighters look unintentional becuase they're throwing a punch while they're coming in, but JC looks straight up blantant with it.

It wasn't just a young Casamayor, he was pretty blatant with his headbutts against Katsidis as well.

[GreatRubdini]

Pacquiao for his steroids and weight draining his opponents(Morales, De la Zombie, Cotto)

[Chups]

Of All Time? ---------->Sandy Saddler

[Whodini]

Nedal Hussein

[Don Johnson]

So he beat Kessler,there was a headbutt or 2,but because of that 1 performance he is the dirtiest fighter huh,wow transparent hatery at it's best!!

He was almost as dirty in the miranda fight as well.