What was the worst beating you ever seen a boxer take who wasn't KO'ed in the fight?

[dannnnn]

I remember Wayne McCullough taking a sustained beating at the hands of Scott Harrison some years ago. Not the worst I've ever seen but it still stands out in the mind nearly twenty years later. McCullough's chin was a bit too good for his own good that night.

[Idunnoshet]

Margarito / Cotto 1.
I was sitting behind Cottos family watching them crying from the start of the 11th round until the stoppage.

[Motofan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chm8L-ms6Qk



Compubox was crazy https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/v...riggs-compubox

Round 10
Vitali 44/73
Briggs 2/17

First fight that came to mind. It was incredibly hard to watch and damn near ended up killing Briggs.

[drablj]

vladimir k. - wach
wach needed 2 years to recover.

[lopetego]

OP must be a noob, Mikey was humilliated in that fight, but barely took damage. Mikey realized he couldn't win in the early rounds, he basically gave up and his goal after that was to last the distance, he fought mostly defensively the rest of the night and that's why he wasn't KO'd or hurt. It's hard to KO a skilled fighter that is just there to survive.

Pac-Margarito on the other hand was utterly brutal because of Margo's lack of defense and never-say-die attitude. Margo would rather die in the ring than giving up, and that's why he took a ferocious beatdown that ruined his career. Pac's destruction of Margo was so thorough that it produced two victories, one for him and one for Cotto after that fight

First fight that came to mind. It was incredibly hard to watch and damn near ended up killing Briggs.

Yeah. Briggs had to spend all the money he won in that fight paying his hospital bills

that's why he was begging for a fight with Wlad afterwards

Calzaghe gave Lacy a terrible beating from round 1 to round 12.

He schooled Lacy and took his soul that night yeah. but he didn't give him a "terrible beating" because Calzaghe punches like a girl. Lacy was never in danger of being KO'd

[keepemup]

Alfredo Angulo vs Canelo Alvarez.

I swear to you Angulo was concussed from the very first punch Canelo threw.

That beating was brutal.

[a.rihn]

I think it's already been mentioned, but Gatti-Ward 1 comes to mind immediately. My ribs hurt just thinking about it. Plus you get the fact that they went into an immediate rematch, and then a third - all bruisers that went the distance.

[Boxing Goat]

Mikey Garcia is my favorite boxer but Spence whipped him like a government mule. I was hoping the he would knock him out just to put him out of his misery. Man he took a beating. Any others?

Vitali Klitschko vs. Shannon Briggs comes to mind.

[Madison Boxing]

Calzaghe lacy. He ended his career that night, and calzaghe became a legend.

[lopetego]

Alfredo Angulo vs Canelo Alvarez.

I swear to you Angulo was concussed from the very first punch Canelo threw.

That beating was brutal.

I remember some of the typical Canelo haters claiming the TKO10 against Angulo was an "early stoppage in favour of pampered Canelo"

because the referee stopped the fight after Canelo landed a nasty combo in that round that didn't drop of hurt Angulo too much, apparently

those dumbasses don't realize, it's not an "early stoppage" if you've been beaten from pillar to post for 10 rounds. If more referees acted like this, we'd have less deaths in boxing