Derived from the upset thread What fight in the history has been the most lopsided mismatch beforehand? To qualify it has to include a truly great fighter, so Butterbean's bouts and similar won't count. Tyson vs McNeeley is the obvious famous one. Name some others
Floyd Patterson had a title defense against Peter McNeeley's dad Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor for the lineal 154 lb. championship (nobody was 154 lb. champion when he moved down to WW, so by default that still made him linear 154 lb. champion)
Roy Jones vs Rick Frazier is up there too. Quite possibly the most talented fighter ever against a guy that was 18-3-1 (7) and not even a full-time boxer
In Terms of Highly Anticipated Bouts That were Actually EXPECTED to Be Competitive, Yet Weren’t, Sanchez-Gomez Has to Rank Highly… REED
That's the one for me...it's worse than Rademacher Vs Patterson cos Patterson had a veneer of vulnerability about him
The Charpentier fight was so bad that it influenced the Sturm predictions years later. People reckoned Oscar would just deal with Sturm a la Charpentier. Sturm beat his ass.
If we are going to go there, then Floyd vs Pacman has to be the biggest mismatch in history of highly anticipated bouts expected to be at least competitive.
For sure. That’s the thing about prime Roy, he made great fighters look mediocre and ‘just’ really good fighters look like they’ve never stepped in a ring before.
Huh???… Sanchez-Gomez was a MASSACRE From the Very 1st Round…Gomez was Beaten Up, Busted Up and KO’ed… Floyd-Pac was a 12 Round Track Meet w/No Traces of HURT Exchanged Btwn Either Man…How Are Those 2 Bouts the LEAST Bit Comparable???… REED
Ugo asked for fights that were considered gross mismatches beforehand. Fights like Sanchez-Gomez, Mayweather-Corrales, ect., that were considered even going in and became mismatches, belong in their own category.
were the books open on any of these? I recall not even having the possibility of betting on DLH-Campas
