Best losing effort in a boxing match.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Medrick Taylor vs. Chavez hands down in my mind. Taylor was 2 seconds away from a convincing unanamious descision to losing the fight. The ref should have been murked for stopping that fight...

[drh]

burton vs micky ward

[moy22487]

yeah.

At first....I thought it was a legitimate stoppgage.....and Steele was only looking out for taylor's safety IE: (I bought that). But when I thought about it long and hard.....I changed my mind.

that was way too close to the end to stop it.

yeah he stopped it for his safety but i agree with it because chavez did more damage had the best punches but didnt show till late so maybe the fact that he had harder punches would of won him rounds but taylor was buissier. and chavez did enough damage to win him the fight you think steel wouldnt of stopped it if taylor was againts the ropes and kept getting caught with hard punchez

[Darkstar]

I guess most of them have been named.

One great effort was Ricardo Mayorga vs Tito
He took power shot after power shot and then LET tito hit him with more power shots. Then keep coming forward fighting hard.

People 4get that Mayorga scored a flash knockdown with a clubbing right hand that made tito touch the canvas.

[DIEGO DA HITMAN]

I forgot one....
Jirov vs Mesi

Yeah, if Jirov would've fought the whole fight, he'd have easily finished Mesi off. Good one...

[DIEGO DA HITMAN]

Are those good fights that I should see?

You really, really need to see Corrales/Castillo I. The other two, particularly Lewis-Holyfield, are well worth watching as well. If you're a relatively new fight fan, here's some fights you need to watch:
Corrales-Castillo I, The Gatti-Ward Trilogy, Toney-Jirov, Hopkins-Trinidad, Trinidad-Vargas, De la Hoya-Vargas, Holyfield-Tyson I, Hatton-Tszyu, Pacquiao-Morales I & II, The Barrera-Morales Trilogy, Mosley-De la Hoya I, Wright-Mosley II, Quartey-De la Hoya, Quartey-Vargas, Corrales-Casamayor I & II, Bell-Mormeck, Mormeck-Braithwaite, and Brewster-Klitschko just for starters. Those are all somewhat recent fights. Get your hands on as many of those as possible. Then try to get a hold of the great Middleweight bouts of Leonard, Hearns,Hagler, and Duran- especially vs. each other. I'd also try to find some Ali fights- Frazier, Foreman, Liston, Norton, etc. Once you get into boxing, you'll be hooked. Good luck.

[Piggu]

Bump back to top so people can see this wonderful thread.

[Piggu]

I forget who said it but I remember seeing that Dorin-Balbi fight.

[Piggu]

Not really relentlesy, he kinda just stood in front of Lewis and got his as handed to him.

I would go with Sugar Ray Leonard - Hearns 1. Busted up eye and kept coming.

But Leonard won the fight. I'm talking losing efforts. Not come-from-behinds.

[moy22487]

its probably been said but it was long ago. vargas againts tito. vargas adapted after going down twice in the first and gave some good rounds