worst beating in a match between KNOWN fighters?

[Katz]

Pac Morales 3. This will be one of the worst beatdown in boxing history. Erik will crawl on the canvass once more after doing the no mas dance move like in the last secs. of rd 9 of the rematch.....classic.

Noted.....

[The Coagulator]

wlad klitcko gave ray mercer a pretty bad beating..mayweather gave gatti a good beating..thomas hearns brutally ****d the overrated roberto duran...de la hoya made the even more overrated julio chavez his whore..any more legendary punishment between known guys?

Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan 2/25/95 at the New London Arena in London England....my trainer Bill Miller was there and said it was the most brutal fight he has ever seen in 60 years in boxing. Said both fighters were never the same again.

[Hydro]

toney-barkley
mayweather-gatti
dlh-gatti
trinidad-mayorga

[Welter_Skelter]

Dino VS the BUFFET table..

[hollister]

Or maybe even Dempsey vs. Willard that was as brutal as it comes.

Dammit you beat me to it lol

[Brockton Lip]

You never got me down ya bastard...

Robinson-Lamotta VI.
'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'

[bigdlb12]

the best would have to be PBF vs chico corales

[GasPed]

Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan 2/25/95 at the New London Arena in London England....my trainer Bill Miller was there and said it was the most brutal fight he has ever seen in 60 years in boxing. Said both fighters were never the same again.

That was a war, but I don't think you can say it was a classic beatdown. Just like Ali-Frazier III, or Gatti-Ward, etc.

[hollister]

not so sure how his next few days were other than he probably didn't feel very well!

that was one of the single greatest one punch ko's i've ever seen. as i remember reading, ketchel was "out" for something like 10 minutes or so.

his teeth, yes. his front teeth were broken off at the gumline as i recall - i have a mini library on jack johnson.

the ketchel/j johnson fight has some interesting stories behind it. one of them was the whole deal about jack johnson agreeing to carry ketchel through the fight instead of taking him out. at some point, stanley starts to feel as though he can actually take jack, as jack wasn't really laying it on. that's when ketchel catches jack by surprise. the rest is history - jack gets up and ices ketchel with that one punch.

jack has been down before, but he was known for having a great beard. jess willard, who got the title from jack, knocked him down and jack was counted out. this fight also has some unique storylines attached to it. jack claims that he was getting tired of boxing and had accepted a bribe of something like $125,000 if i recall correctly. i believe he latered claimed that he never even recieved the money. there's a bit more to it as well. some people, probably most, believe that jack was just getting older, and was not in shape for the fight which was in 100 degree heat in the middle of the day.

jack had also been down very early in his career when he fought joe choynski(sp?). the police broke into the scene at the time right as jack had been knocked down and arrested both of 'em for practicing pugilism. jack learned a great deal of tricks from choynski, who was known as a slick fighter, while in jail which helped him go onto become the legendary jack johnson we know of.

I don't believe the story about Jack taking it easy on Stanley, didn't jack knock him down early in the fight?
Also there's the story about Jack wiping Ketchel's teeth off of his glove, but if you watch closely, he wipes the left glove with the right glove, the teeth should have been embedded in the right glove, so he's wiping the wrong glove for that to be true. Wasn't Jeffries' trainer for his "comeback" fight some slick boxer who had KO'd Johnson? I can't remember, I might be wrong about that.

[j]

I don't believe the story about Jack taking it easy on Stanley, didn't jack knock him down early in the fight?
Also there's the story about Jack wiping Ketchel's teeth off of his glove, but if you watch closely, he wipes the left glove with the right glove, the teeth should have been embedded in the right glove, so he's wiping the wrong glove for that to be true. Wasn't Jeffries' trainer for his "comeback" fight some slick boxer who had KO'd Johnson? I can't remember, I might be wrong about that.

the story of jack holding up stanley ketchel is well known and widespread. it is even told the same way by bert sugar as well as in every book or video documentary i've seen. this story, i'm inclined to believe rather than disbelieve. the johnson/willard story is a bit less believable.

stanley was dusted with a right as it appears clearly. he did, however, land a left hook immediately before putting ketchel down with the right.

with jeffries's trainer, that i am not very sure about so i would have to check my knowledge vs my books,etc.