State the biggest humiliation that ever occured in combat sports ( anyone, it could be boxing, k-1, mma,... ) 1 - The top spot has to go to Mercer-Sylvia, Mercer was nearing 50 and at the press conference before the fight, challenged Sylvia to fight him like a man (by boxing like they were suppose to ) and not by : '' wimping out like all MMA fighters do by kicking, running, screaming and grappling ''. Sylvia, a top 10 hw contender at the time, refused and said he was gonna show Mercer all the dirty little MMA tricks he learned over the years. The fight in itself is already a classic (they are really some gems in the sherdog forum) 2 - Benji Radach vs Danny Lafever : At the time of the fight, Radach was hot shit (he's an MMA fighter for those who don't know) who's only loss was in the UFC to decision to Sean Sherk. Story goes he was flirting with the girl of an amateur boxer named Danny Lafever and went all " I'm an UFC fighter you're gonna get hurt son " when Lafever told him to leave his girl alone. Lafever, who's quite a bit smaller than Radach, then challenged him to an MMA fight and koed him cold in seconds <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-bDwiEYSxxY&hl=fr&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-bDwiEYSxxY&hl=fr&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> 3 - Badr Hari vs Allistair Overeem : Most may not know Badr Hari but at the time, he was considered one of the best strikers in K-1 as he had easilly blitz name like Sefo and Feitosa early in the 1st when he met Overeem, who is a mma fighter but who's style is mainly base around thai boxing, at K-1 dynamite of this year. Hari was just coming off a dq loss to Bojansky who had taken some off his luster but it was mainly consider as a minor bump on his road to stardom. At the press conference, Hari was very arrogan toward Overeem and MMA fighters in general. The deal called for 1 fight in k-1 and 1 in MMA to even the field. Turn out the second fight in MMA never happened as Hari backed out of it after taking an hellacious ass whooping at his own game. What makes it even worse is that soon after this fight, Hari just blitzed K-1 king Semmy Schilt <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hHLviK5XzMo&hl=fr&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hHLviK5XzMo&hl=fr&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
IMO Hermes Franca beating Manny Reyes for $1, Manny talked loads of shit about Hermes so he accepted just $1 to kick his ass and won by KO in round 1.
