Fight people like to pretend didn't happen

[Skip Bayless]

As some of u have said dawson vs hopkins takes the pick for me. Bhop is great but dawson beat him but no one gives him any credit. I picked dawson to win because bhop struggles with that style

[Public_Enemy]

It's a good thing Roy Jones Jr. retired after beating Tarver.

WTF??? Last time they fought Tarver won a UD, Before that Tarver knocked him out COLD, and the first time they fought Roy got a MD in a fight in which alot of people think he lost.

[bojangles1987]

WTF??? Last time they fought Tarver won a UD, Before that Tarver knocked him out COLD, and the first time they fought Roy got a MD in a fight in which alot of people think he lost.

whooooooooosh

Hope you don't have a toupee, that went over your head so fast it would take the rug with it.

[victorythagr8]

Timothy Bradley vs Joel Casamayor - It's like this fight never existed. People say that Bradley turned down Khan to face Pacquaio and conveniently leave out that what he actually did was sit on the sidelines for months and then face a shot to ****, drug addled Casamayor. All before luckily getting the Pacquaio fight a year after he initially refused to fight Khan.

Adonis Stevenson vs Forfarna - Similar situation. The Haymon fantards will claim Stevenson turned down Kovalev to face Hopkins, leaving out this joke fight and the fact that he's not even facing Hopkins now

Bradley had trouble with a promoter and got out of his contract and signed with top rank.

[IIG]

I actually thought it was a competitive fight. Dawson clearly won, but it was competitive.

People call some fights nowadays a "schooling" that don't look like schoolings at all. Like Lomachenko vs Russell Jr, I thought it was a good, competitive fight that Lomachenko clearly won, but I see some posters saying Russell got schooled.

Boxers who got schooled in recent years were Rigo-Donaire, Mayweather-Guerrero, Hopkins-Pascal, Lara-Trout.

It was about as competitive as a 117-111 fight can be I suppose. There were sections of this fight where I genuinely felt sorry for Hopkins. He would showboat and attempt to pull his trademark tricks out the bag, just for Dawson to respond by wailing away with quick, powerful combinations. Hopkins skipping out on the post fight interview told the story.

[Zen_Fighter]

There are plenty to list but how about Taylor vs. Hopkins? How did those even happen that way!?

[La_Vibora]

Floyd vs Corrales

When he was given a huge gift

Pretty positive that you mean Castillo not Corrales, in which case i say:

[soul_survivor]

He clearly wasn't schooled, but it clearly wasn't a robbery either. Unless you think any reasonably close but clear fight is a 'schooling'. In which case, you just need to grow up and get over your petty, school boy biases.

Not only that, but who the hell pretends it didn't happen?

That fight gets talked about a lot, because it clearly shows that Marquez, like Hopkins, has some limitations to what he can now do due to his age.

Did you see the two shots Lewis got hit with? They would have knocked out just about any other HW in history, and they haven't been forgotten since the second they happened. In fact, they are brought up a hell of a lot considering he beat both in rematches.

Lewis fought a lot of big punchers. A lot. He only went down twice in his entire career, from those two shots.

Those fights are glossed over in terms of Lewis' recognition as a great, how many truly great fighters, in their primes have been beaten by c level bums let alone stopped by them.

I'll agree they were big punches...but surely a prime Lewis, who is an ATG should have seen them coming. That was ridiculous and at the time thought of as disgraceful losses.

And what petty biases? I've been a fan of JMM the boxer for longer than Bradley has been around the scene, but I call it like I see it. JMM won 3-4 rounds and Bradley showed he was a good level or two above him, it wasn't even close. You can say it was all you want but no one objectively believes it.

[elfag]

1) Trout vs Cotto: a run-off-the-mill boxer type southpaw with no power beating the 4 division champ, best-of-his-era ATG? No way!

2) Dawson vs Hopkins II. The top 10 ATG ageless wonder losing to someone like Dawson? Can't be true.

3) Maidana vs Devon and Khan: the unstoppable little tank who "beat" Floyd Mayweather lost to these two bums? Impossible. (The Kotelnik loss is less problematic because no one actually saw it and it was in Germany so they can just say it was a robbery.)

hopkins is old and at 175. i mean really i dont think its a big deal. everything he does after tarver is just him going on... dude was in his mid 40s vs dawson. Its like foreman loosing to moorison.

[MarcoHooker]

Khan Prescott - WTF?! That's all that needs to be said about that.
Tyson McBride - Again, WTF?!

Most legends have those bad/pathetic losses at the end of their careers (Ali/ Louis were brutalized/humiliated)

Khan's loss to Prescott is one of the reasons he has fans, **** like that can happen to him at any time yet he still chose to fight aggressively for so long and it always keeps his fights interesting knowing they can end at any moment