"if a fighter turns his back on his opponet he automaticly loses"
You obviously haven't seen the fight.
Echols didn't turn his back. They were in a clinch and Hopkins held and slid around onto his back and hit him as soon as he was behind him. Hopkins is a dirty fighter, that's well known. But Echols was, too, that's why he wasn't penalized or DQ'd.
With out a doubt, it would have to be the two fights with Andrew Golata-Rid**** Bowe. In that fight Golata was applying serious punishment to Rid**** Bowe, but ******ly started low blowing Bowe. He was DQ'ed twice on a myriad of low blows. It was really head scratching stuff.
Honorable mentions: Manny Pacquiao's nightmarish rumble with the late Agapito Sanchez. Trinidad-Vargas was a great fight that happened to have 4 knockdowns and 4 major fouls in the first four rounds. Hopkins-Echols was another good fight that featured fouls that didn't diminish the entertainment value of the bout, but enhanced it. Echols threw Hopkins to the floor and dislocated his shoulder. Hopkins, opting to continue instead of being awarded a victory by disqualification. He probably elected to continue in the fight because he didn't want his record breaking title defense win to be diminished by the means of victory. But thats still crazy, because at that time no one wanted to fight Echols because he just didn't give a damn.
The heavyweight championship changed hands when Jack Sharkey, the defending heavyweight champion of the world, inadvertently lowblowed Max Schmelling and left the challenger unable to continue. I think it was bull**** because if you watch the tape, Schmelling clearly jumped in the air, moving his nuts in the path of the shot. That fight should've been declared a No-Contest, not a DQ.
Echols didn't turn his back. They were in a clinch and Hopkins held and slid around onto his back and hit him as soon as he was behind him. Hopkins is a dirty fighter, that's well known. But Echols was, too, that's why he wasn't penalized or DQ'd.
Exactly, it was seriously blatant but Weeks just allowed that stuff the entire fight. Never really cautioned Hopkins on anything really.
I dont know and doubt that it was the dirtiest fight ever but it was really dirty and villanious.
HOWEVER we forgot the MOST BLATANT foul of them all.......Tyson biting off part of Holyfields ear. If Weeks was referring that fight he would told Holyfield to suck it up and get back into the fight.
On a side note in a wrestling match in which one of my teammates was wrestling there was another crazy foul. My teammate was attempting a move in which he was stepping over the guys head in order gain better position and leverage himself for a pin. He yells out a couple of times and we thought it was weird but just assumed it was from the exertion. The period ends in that position without a pin and the opponent gets up talking smack and my teammate is talking smack right back...He complains to the ref and the ref is kinda ignoring him thinking that its just the regular complaints but then he shifts his uniform and shows that he has a bite mark that is purple but didnt get to break skin. The bite mark is like 2 inches from his nuts way inside his thigh. The other guys lost his match by forfeit and had to leave immediately, and was banned from wrestling for the remainder of the year.
Any fight that John Ruiz was involved in. He fouls more than anyone I've ever seen, he sucks and should be banned from the sport, and forced to sell used cars.
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