What loss...

...hurt you the most as a fan? For me it's between Lewis-Rahman I and Hamed-Barrera. Lewis is probably my favourite fighter ever so that hurt alot. I was a big fan of Hamed, as I've mentioned before he was the guy who got me into boxing, so to see him get taken apart so thoroughly was pretty painful to watch. I can't think of any losses since those that have been that bad, DeGale-Groves maybe, but DeGale didn't really lose that fight so I'm not too bothered.

 

Seeing Roy put to sleep against Johnson hurt alot, because at that point I knew that the Tarver KO was no fluke, and Roy was clearly not anywhere near the level he once was. I honestly thought at that time it was the last we'd seen of Roy, for good reason of course. Unfortunately that was far from the case.

 

Since becoming an adult fight fan (Ali-Holmes as a kid had me wounded):

Tyson-Holyfield 1, Jones-Tarver 2

After those fights, as Apollo Creed would say:

"I didn't want to hear from nothing or nobody, not even my kids"

 

Spencer Oliver's defeat
Michael Brodie's first defeat (against Joppy?)
Neary v Ward
De La Hoya v Trinidad
Herol Graham (in his last world title shot)

 

Probably Jones-Tarver 2

 

Pacquiao-De La Hoya was as tough as its ever been for me.

 

Oscar is never a guy I felt sorry for. Perhaps the Tito fight or Mosley but Oscar proved himself more than happy with rigged fights and cheating later on down the line

 

Trinidad/Hopkins. I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks.

 

Tyson-Douglas and Jones-Tarver II

 

Thats your take on him, not mine. Id say you were entitled to it, but you really have nothing meaningful with which to label him a cheat.

 

Hamed/Barrera easily. I had to swallow a lot of crow after that fight.

 

Ingle-Botile - I was becoming a big fan of the Yorkshire Hunter, nice bloke and really exciting to watch, tragic what happened to him

Williams-Klitschko - I knew Danny didn't stand a chance, and I like Vitali, but I really wanted Danny to do something, however he was just outclassed. Williams-Harrison 2 was pretty fucking depressing too.

Carl Thompson-Johnny Nelson - Probably the most exciting British fighters of recent years getting stopped by the most boring, annoying bellend in the history of boxing

 

All of Tyson's losses were pretty terrible, too. Especially towards the end, when he really had no business fighting anymore.

 

Trinidad vs. Hopkins
Tyson vs. Holyfield I

 

Tyson-Lewis. It was sad to see Mike beat up that way.

 

Douglas-Tyson bothered me more so a few days afterward. As i watched an historic upset live it took the sting out of it as it was so shocking.

Holyfield-Tyson bothered me more.

 

word.

 

Lewis-Rahman I for me as well Slice. No question about it. I stayed up until what 4 am to catch that fight the entire day I was nervous about Lennox coming in so heavy and shooting the movie while Rahman was trim and training at altitude in S/Africa the whole time. My Uncle spent the whole evening trying to talk me down and he passed out around 2 am only to be rudley awoken by my painful screams of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! as Lennox was clobbered by a right hand seconds after grinning at rahman along the ropes.

lewis-mccall I is the second worst, but lewis was much more vulnerable back then and it all happened so fast it took about a week for it to sink in.

non-lewis related.... Veerapol Sahaprom's second loss the Hasegawa (the brutal KO loss) was particularly tough for me to swallow.

Cotto losing to Margarito. It only made it worse when you foudn out a year later he might have been loading his gloves.

JuanMa's recent loss really sucked too. Was really looking forward to Gamboa-JuanMa

 

I met Ingle before the Botile fight when I lived in scarborough: there is a sports bar in Scarborough High Street dedicated to him and which has all his memorabilia on the walls and he used to come in a lot. He was a genuinely smashing fella and what happened to him was a terrible shame.

MTF

 

I want to say Lewis-Rahman I, but I was more pissed with LL than anything.

Roy-Johnson put me in a bad spot too, the way Roy lied there for so long.

 

Hatton vs Pac.

 

De la hoya vs pac. I really liked oscar.

 

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Something he has been doing to himself ever since.

 

I had a bad feeling about it too fella, Lewis couldn't have had his eye any further off the ball. Altitude is something you don't fuck about with.

 

True about Lewis, but I had a bad feeling Lennox was gonna get frozen out like before, at an age where he was too old to rectify the situation. Thank fuck for rematch clauses ::

 

I was never a huge Holyfield fan by any means but watching the old used up version get dominated by fat James Toney, whom he would have beaten the shit out of if he had been in his prime was pretty sad, especially because Toney is such a dickhead

For me, seeing potbellied Pernell Whitaker lose to Carlos bojorquez was pretty depressing

 

remember after that fight Toney was walking up to Evander and saying "Much love dawg, much love baby" :laughing:

 

Lewis-Tyson. Even though I expected it, I was just hoping for Tyson to pull it off.

 

::giggle:

Holyfield would have caused that fat fuck a myocardial infarction in his prime