Worst title fight mismatches in history

So in this thread, I'm not necessarily talking about fights that turn out to be a mismatch, like Hearns-Duran, Mayweather-Corrales, or Tyson-Spinks but rather fights that were pretty much deemed mismatches before they fought and then lived up to expectations.

I'll start : Holmes vs Marvis Frazier. Frazier had no business being in that ring with Larry Holmes. Even the Holmes that fought Butterbean would have defeated Frazier, shiiiiiiiiiiiit.

 

Calzaghe v about half a dozen chumps.

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Kell Brook v his last three opponents.

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Calzaghe vs Will "Kid Fyre" McIntyre

 

Roy Jones Had MORE than his Fair Share, but the Ricky Frazier Fight was the ABSOLUTE Worst...

During the Pre-Fight for that Bout, 1 of Frazier's Friends Said (On-Air), "I've Been Trying to Get Rick to Write My Name on the Bottom of his Boxing Shoes, So when Roy Knocks Him Out, Everybody Can REED 'Hello Chris Green' ".




REED:doh:

 

Floyd vs JM Marquez
Floyd vs Guerrero
Floyd vs Berto





REED:hammert:

 

Aye, that's the nadir of them. I was there for that shamble. A disgrace.

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Eubanks v *any opponent except Benn and Watson*

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Johnny Nelson v anyone he 'fought'.

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Julius Francis had a British newspaper (The Mirror) sponsor the bottom of his shoes when he fought Tyson. Not a title fight, but much the same thing.

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Yet, he needed gift wrapped decision to win a few of these mismatches

 

Stevenson vs karpency and the russian bum (sudhoksy or sometthing like that) were pretty awful

 

Pavlik vs Lockett
Lewis vs Grant
Mayweather vs Gatti
Cotto vs Gomez
Pacquiao vs Hatton

 

He beat Benn clean in the first fight and near killed Watson in their second fight despite losing every second of every round until that punch. The second Benn fight he lost. The first Watson fight was a robbery. The rest of his resume is garbage.

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Rod the gawd salka?

 

I'm talikng about the bums he fought. He robbed a few of them. Eubank was pretty much garbage

 

Michael Spinks vs. Tangsted or whatever the hell his name is
Tommy Morrison vs. Tim Tomashek (the guy in the audience drinking a beer who had to fill in at the last minute after the original opponent pulled out)
Bernard Hopkins vs. Morrade Hakkar
George Foreman vs. Jose Roman
Riddick Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson (Larry Hazzard slow counts first KD because it appeared he found out about Ferguson's massive bet about getting out of the first round)

 

:l2:

 

Barrera-Fana

 

It was a mismatch, but Fana was a decent enough fighter

 

You're usually a good poster. Read the initial post and try again.

 

Pacquiao vs Lucero
Quartey vs Tiger Jones
Trinidad vs Blocker

 

Steve Collins :dunno:

 

Wasn't Trinidad a kid when he fought Blocker. I thought that's when he won the title.

 

Larry Holmes vs. Scott Frank

Larry Holmes vs. Randall "Tex" Cobb

 

Foreman vs. Jose "King" Roman

 

Brandon Rios-John Murray

 

Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed

 

Marco Antonio Barrera vs Paul Lloyd. Lol ffs man just call a hitman or something if you hate Paul Lloyd that much, it'd be more humane.