What's The Worst Single Event To Happen In Boxing Over The Last Decade?

[BoxCleva]

Since the years 2000 - 2009, what would you consider to be the very worst, most unfortunate event to happen within the boxing world? Was it the untimely death of any particular fighter, or watching your favorite boxer getting defeated in a bout?

Perhaps it was realizing the apparent impossibility of immediate heavyweight title unification, or maybe an announcement of retirement from any specific boxer. It might have been the discovery of a cheat within the sport or witnessing a highly disputable decision from the ringside judges..

What's the worst thing to happen in boxing over the last decade from your perspective?

[jri9d0]

Since the years 2000 - 2009, what would you consider to be the very worst, most unfortunate event to happen within the boxing world? Was it the untimely death of any particular fighter, or watching your favorite boxer getting defeated in a bout?

Perhaps it was realizing the apparent impossibility of immediate heavyweight title unification, or maybe an announcement of retirement from any specific boxer. It might have been the discovery of a cheat within the sport or witnessing a highly disputable decision from the ringside judges..

What's the worst thing to happen in boxing over the last decade from your perspective?

If you are talking from a personal perspective for me it would have to be the death of Arturo Gatti.

Though we lost a lot of familiar loving faces in our sport (more so last year) Gatti struck me the most personally because I watched his career actually revolve from back on his “USA Tuesday Night Fights” days.

I mean that **** really got me.

Peace.

[Joeyzagz]

Bernard Hopkins entire career.

Disgrace to boxing.

[Mr. Fantastic]

Bernard Hopkins entire career.

Disgrace to boxing.

Nice!!!!

[savorduhflavor]

A well respected, very likeable, blue collar, top 5 or 6 P4P fighter being caught trying to load his gloves.

Margarito was so easy to like, and was great for the sport. In terms of what he does in the ring, he still is. But that was a REALLY bad scandal.

[Bushbaby]

The deaths of Arturo Gatti,Diego Corrales & Vernon Forrest were horrible!!Seeing Roy Jones go from maybe the greatest fighter to just trying to rekindle some fragment of his former self!!Watching fighters like the Punisher,Winky Wright & Clottey struggle to get fights,Mosley of late can't get a big event!!Just witnessing fight fans willing to accept so little risk from their fave fighters is also heart breaking!!

[Eric Holder]

I don't know about single event but all the robberies are terrible, a non-boxing fan was talking to me about why they don't follow boxing and they said because it was fake like wwf and all the decisions were predetermined.... and sometimes it's hard to argue against that when you see judges scorecards

[Anabolism]

obviously biased, hometown decision, judging makes me have the want to vomit feeling everytime it happens

[Easy-E]

Tough one. Between the tragic deaths of Gatti, Corrales and Forrest, the string of disgraceful judges decisions and Margacheato.

[steeluv]

1. the boxers who died Arturo Gatti,Diego Corrales , Vernon Forrest & Darren Sutherland
2. boxers who cheat, margarito with his loaded gloves, tim bradley with his headbutts, b hop with his faking of low blows
3. Roger Mayweather and Yoel Judahs behaviour in the Floyd Vs judah fight
4. all the robberys by bad judges
5. floyd mayweather overhyping his fight with a super featherweight at Welterweight and charging PPV what a joke.