Can you think of a time boxing was ever to violent to watch?

**iamboxing** · 10-22-2018, 03:23 PM

Naseem Hamed vs Liendo. Disgusting referee and only fight I can't stand Naz in. Ending was just so unnecessary.

**Boxfan83** · 10-22-2018, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by iamboxing

Naseem Hamed vs Liendo. Disgusting referee and only fight I can't stand Naz in. Ending was just so unnecessary.

Never seen that 1 but i can only imagine Hamed teeing off on a guy being pretty brutal.

Sometimes as fans i think we forget the brutality of the sport.

**Eff Pandas** · 10-22-2018, 03:32 PM

I remember when Randie Carver died I was kinda feeling f#cked up about it. Randie just seemed like a nice guy who could box. I had seen him win the National Golden Gloves a few years earlier. He was a undefeated prospect with everything in front of him. And then he was dead.

Outside the ring when I heard that Vinny Letizia (Chicago prospect from back in the day) & Diego Corrales were killed in motorcycle accidents that sh^t kinda made me feel f#cked up. Although less so with Diego cuz he had done what he was gonna do & Vinny hadn't gotten his chance yet. That lost potential sh^t f#cks me up.

RIP Randie.

RIP Diego.

RIP Vinny.

**Holler** · 10-22-2018, 03:39 PM

Originally posted by Boxfan83

Like a time where it made you sick to your stomach or outright made you feel sad/bad?

For those of you that don't know me, I like many boxing dads/coaches live vicariously through my boys (there I said it). With that said, we went to a local show this past Friday and my 13yo was able to get matched right away. The kid my son was matched with had a coach that just seemed like he wanted to get as many matches as he could for his gym and really didn't look for his fighters best interest when matching.

Anyways, in no way am I bragging because it is with a heavy heart I say we won by 3rd RD (RSC). The beating my son handed out along with the beating our opponent took, turned my stomach and made me feel REALLY REALLY bad which has NEVER happened before whether watching Pros or Amateur boxing on TV, live, in the gym etc.

Anyways, I don't know if my newly found soft spot is a good thing, so I ask, have any of you Boxing fans ever feel that way? If so, what was the experience??

In the mid 90's boxing was very popular in the UK and there were several very good MW/SMW vying with each other. Benn, Eubank, Watson and latterly Collins. There were a series of brutal fights between them and with others. Benn vs McClellan and Eubank vs Watson 2 both had tragic consequences. It took a long time to watch boxing in the same way again and I know people who stopped watching it then, some returned to it and others never did.

**JuniorTorres720** · 10-22-2018, 03:40 PM

I feel that way when I'm emotionally invested in a fighter. Wilder vs Ortiz also had me on edge because here you had two hard hitting heavyweights throwing bombs at each other. Violent fights like that are the ones that sometimes make me think about my affinity for boxing. This might be an exaggerated comparison but what's so different from a dog fight when you compare the fanfare and the passionate emotions in wanting to see human beings destroy each other? Those are just my two cents. But I love boxing and love how it's controlled action. If a man goes down the ref starts the count and doesn't let the other guy just pounce on him. It's class yet violent.

**Redd Foxx** · 10-22-2018, 03:42 PM

Not in boxing but there's a lot of MMA fights that have been sad AF to watch because the expectation in that sport is that you will allow yourself to be crippled before you quit. I think it's immaturity from the fans who forget that these are real people with families. They just think of them as gladiators who are there to amuse them with their lives.

**Boxfan83** · 10-22-2018, 04:30 PM

Originally posted by Eff Pandas

I remember when Randie Carver died I was kinda feeling f#cked up about it. Randie just seemed like a nice guy who could box. I had seen him win the National Golden Gloves a few years earlier. He was a undefeated prospect with everything in front of him. And then he was dead.

Outside the ring when I heard that Vinny Letizia (Chicago prospect from back in the day) & Diego Corrales were killed in motorcycle accidents that sh^t kinda made me feel f#cked up. Although less so with Diego cuz he had done what he was gonna do & Vinny hadn't gotten his chance yet. That lost potential sh^t f#cks me up.

RIP Randie.

RIP Diego.

RIP Vinny.

Yeah man when a fighter dies its horrible. Now that i think about it, I watched the Jesus Chavez vs Golden Johnson fight and i do remember feeling a bit choked up when i heard Johnson died. It was also crazy to see Chavez break down after every fight after that

**boliodogs** · 10-22-2018, 04:30 PM

Of course I hated it when a boxer is injured or killed but that is rare. It's a violent dangerous sport and I love watching it. Brutal KOs are great fun for me to watch but I always hope there is no serious damage done to the losing boxer and usually there isn't. If it wasn't violent I wouldn't watch it. If a ref lets an over matched boxer take a beating for too long I don't like that. I admire the skill of hard punching boxers who delivery the KO win and i also admire the skilled boxers who don't hit hard but still get their punches in.

**Eff Pandas** · 10-22-2018, 04:37 PM

Originally posted by Boxfan83

Yeah man when a fighter dies its horrible. Now that i think about it, I watched the Jesus Chavez vs Golden Johnson fight and i do remember feeling a bit choked up when i heard Johnson died. It was also crazy to see Chavez break down after every fight after that

Dude you f#cked me up for a minute there. I had to double check Golden Johnson was alive. Always liked that guy & I was like wtf did I miss that.

It was Leavander Johnson. RIP Leavander.

Can you think of a time boxing was ever to violent to watch?