Best Losing Performance?

[Legends456]

What was the most memorable performance you’ve ever seen from a boxer in which they still ended up losing?

[blowblow]

What was the most memorable performance you’ve ever seen from a boxer in which they still ended up losing?

pac-bradley
pac-horn

[naranja111]

Wlad AJ recently

[TheBoxGod]

Ill give some entertaining wars where the fight was extremely close that I remember,

Ruslan performance vs Timothy Bradley
Cesar Chavez performance vs Nonito Donaire
Scott Quigg performance vs Oscar Valdez
Wladimir performance vs Anthony Joshua
just off the top of my head if I remeber some more I post.

[ThunderFists]

Marquez pacquiao

Donaire against inoue

[boliodogs]

What was the most memorable performance you’ve ever seen from a boxer in which they still ended up losing?

Two I can think of right now were GGG losing to Canelo and Pacquiao losing to Bradley. I thought GGG and Pacquiao both fought very well in those fights and deserved to win but officially they both lost.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Hearns against Leonard without question IMO. Outboxed the master boxed, showed tremendous courage and heart but just fell short to one the very greatest to ever do it.

Ray Robinson vs Joey Maxim is another one. Ray outboxed the much larger Maxim until the 104 degree heat dilapidated him.

Duran vs Hagler deserves a mention too, everybody expected Hagler to destroy Duran yet Duran actually had considerable success in that fight.

Roy Jones “losing” to the Korean has to be up there as well, I’ve never seen a fighter comprehensively dominate a fight yet be deemed the “loser”.

[famicommander]

George Foreman vs Evander Holyfield.

Evander got the clear victory, but Big George came to fight that night and it was epic. He finally got the big win later on versus Moorer, but the Holyfield fight is the one that convinced the world that Foreman was really back.

[Eff Pandas]

Jose Luis Castillo. And honestly against Floyd the first time around when many cats had him winning & I even had it a draw & vs Diego Corrales in their epic first fight.

[Santa_]

Donaire-Inoue.