Taunts That Went Wrong

RJJ vs Toney - RJJ did one of his fighting cock taunts and stuck his chin out at Toney. Toney imitated it back at him, and RJJ promptly jumped in and dropped him with a left hook. Toney looked embarrassed as hell.

Campbell vs Peden - Nate Campbell made himself look like the biggest moron on the planet. Stuck his chin out in a fight he was winning and got KTFO. This was hilarious and sad at the same time.

Mayorga vs Trinidad - offering a free shot to Trinidad is never a good idea. Mayorga made an exaggerated pretense of showing he wasn't hurt, but he obviously was. Mayorga probably would've lost anyway, but this changed the course of the fight immediately.

Wright vs Mosley 2 - Wright won this fight, but almost lost it when he gave Shane a free shot and got put on queer street for his efforts.

 

Tarver saying "You got any excuses tonight" to Roy. Fuck.

 

Lennox Lewis was smiling at Hasim Rahman, bounced off the ropes, and Rahman laid him out.

 

Katsidis shouting "What are you looking at?" to Robert Guerrero before getting nearly shut out.

 

Wow

 

Nice. ::

If you are a Roy fan that certainly went wrong.

Too bad Guerrero didn´t say: Not much.

 

There cannot be any more famous taunt than welterweight champion Benny "Kid" Paret taunting Emile Griffith by calling him a "maricon" at the weigh in, and Griffith beat him to death in boxing's most historical tragedy.

 

Ah yes, but Ruby Goldstein and Gene Fullmer were in on that one too, for different reasons.

 

Myth. Jones leaned on him, & still, Toney never technically touched the ringmat. He was held up by the corner, but he wasn't actually knocked back by anything but Jones leaning on him.

 

Roy barely touched Toney, don't hate.

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Toney is what I'd define as a natural fighter. Even when he got shut out 12-0 he was still never hurt or flustered.

 

Didn't get knocked out from it, but Simon Brown squandered what little momentum he had in the rematch with Terry Norris, briefly hurting him then winding up for a bolo punch that never launched. Norris promptly countered while Brown was in motion and pretty much remained in control for the rest of the fight.

There's also Trenton Titsworth's infamous "two points for kissing" against Jesse Vargas

 

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Kelly Pavlik nearly blew it when he taunted Jermain Taylor in their second round.

 

Disagree. Left hook put Toney off balance.

 

Ali talking to Norton at the moment he was hit on the jaw with an overhand right.

 

that's a good one. Pavlik had been hit, and smiled to show he had not been hurt (which he probably had been in fact), and Taylor took the opportunity to land another, one that seriously hurt Pavlik and was close to stopping him for a second there.

 

Vivian Harris taunting Floyd before his own fight with Maussa and Floyds fight with Gatti.

 

That was so fucking funny when kats did that :giggle:

 

haha I remember that

Vivian Harris: "FLOYD GAYWEDDA IS SCARED OF ME! BROOKLYN!"

Uncle Roger: "Brooklyn? The fuck is that? People get they ass whooped all over the world!"

another one -

Joppy shoving B-Hop at the press conference before their fight when Hops tried to take the mic. After that, you could see in Hopkins' eyes that he was set to inflict some serious pain on Joppy.

 

How 'bout the exaggerated taunts of Chris Byrd before being dusted off by Ike Ibeabuchi!? He looked pretty fucked up drooling from the grill after Ike had done the deed.

 

That's a good one . I played it for my friend's the day before we watched the Gatti/PBF card and needless to say we were all laughing at Harris the next day.