The Great British Boxing Failure

Post your favourite losses, ´disaster´ fights, hypes-that-got-crushed, falls from grace and the usual ¨we was robbed¨ moments, etc here.
I´ll start the ball rolling:

Azumah Nelson KO1 Pat Cowdell

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For a few seconds, I honestly thought Ricky was dead:

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He'd been out injured for a year and he took the fight too soon, but still, the underrated Watson got a hiding in the end:

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The classic example, surely?

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Nope, scrap that. Graham was a proper fighter, skilled and highly rated. Poor bastard just walked into arguably the hardest P4P puncher who ever lived. Let's move onto the glorious evening that the 'next Sugar Ray Leonard' (according to Barry Mac) headlined his first PPV:

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Never gets old...

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There have been some classics.

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Probably doesn't qualify as it was a UK v UK bout, but still, great to see 'the next great hope' get laid out:

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Was going to post that but, frankly, Lockett was always garbage.

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A particularly unsavory cunt - Herbie Hide:

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Damn, I was sure Khan was floored by a jab gainst Prescott. Weird how memory sometime plays tricks on you.

 

He was wobbled by the first jab that hit him. He was dropped by the first hook that hit him.

Was looking for the Robin Reid v Sven Ottke robbery, but can't find the video

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I always admired Llloyd Honeyghan for actually fighting the very best guys at 147...however:

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For Sly:

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Bonecrusher v Bonkers:

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Aye, was thinking about posting some of Honeyghan but he was actually pretty good. He just lost to other very good fighters.

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:: Awesome! Id forgotten about that one!

 

This one is a personal favourite. An undefeated, highly touted fighter against someone who was supposedly 'washed-up' in his home football stadium for a long-awaited world title shot. I won some good dollar at the bookies on this one:

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don't think he was wobbled by the jab, more off balance. And, not to be pedantic, but it was actually the second left hook that dropped him. First one had him reeling

 

Nah, even the biased as fuck UK comms noticed he was hurt by the jab. He was a bit off balance but it definitely buzzed him. Doesn't matter really - he was less than a minute away from doing a passable impression of a turtle.

I'll never, ever forget that fight. I was on a stag trip with a bunch of lads in Dusseldorf, halfway down the Aldstadt, when we found a bar showing the fight with UK comms. When Khan got dropped the first time, the entire bar collectively burst out laughing.

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I'm kind of a Khan fan now, but I hated him and his hype at the time. Was really jouissive to see him get destroyed this way, especially after all the hype he was getting.

 

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Great stories.

 

I actually like Khan. I hated the hype around him and laughed my cock off when Prescott scalped him but I thought he would disappear and I was wrong. He's a game and gutsy little bastard. Even when he gets laid on his back he almost always tried to get back into the fight - he's never lain down in a fight in his life. And he could have retired after the Prescott debacle a very rich young man but instead he went to the US and tried to challenge himself. As a fighter, he's a likeable sort and he actually has a good resume of quality opposition, with probably the Maidana fight, when everyone (me included) thought he would be carried out on a stretcher, the standout.

It's just that he has probably the worst chin on an 'elite' fighter I've ever seen. And he has a big mouth for a bloke with such a shit chin. The latter makes him very unlikable, and makes his inevitable KO losses all the more enjoyable.

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I think his chin is bad, but his main problem is his defense. Look at the Canelo fight. He was throwing punches and returning his fists to his hips, leaving his chin wide open. Even Hagler would have been floored (and maybe even koed) if he got caught with the punch Canelo koed him with

 

Doesn't really fit the brief, but this is saved to my harddrive for my perennial enjoyment every time I've had a fight ruined by the biased, blind nonsense spouted on Sky commentary:

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His chin is terrible. He got his jaw broken by Willie Limond - a man with about 5KOs in 40 fights. Garcia put him onto a different world with a shot to his neck ::

I've literally watched every professional fight Khan has had and a good chunk of his ammy bouts. In an ABA contest, with full head protection, he got laid out before his Olympic win. His defence isn't great but his chin is hilarious.

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Great footage. It not only shows that Khan has a glass NECK but also shows how terrible SKY comms are - it was obvious halfway through round two that Garcia had figured Khan's shoeshining out and was starting to time him coming in but these buffoons had no idea of what was coming:

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Also, that is a good example of what I was saying before. Khan was fucked but he kept fighting - I actually thought he'd recovered better at the time of the stoppage than at any point prior to it and he could have continued. Gutsy little bastard.

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I was at this fight. Boy, I was bloody crazy to go to East London!

I'll go for David Price-Tony Thompson. It was hilarious seeing Price trying to compose himself after the knockdown (first fight of course). He looked liked a pisshead coming out of a nightclub: ::

 

Khan makes the same mistakes over and over and over again. His downfall is his willingness to go to his opponent and letting his hands go. He has my respect, though.

 

I never got the whole patriotism in boxing thing to be honest, I understand it for team sports but not individual, I just liked who I liked and that was it. Saying all that, I was a fan of Khan, Hamed and Lewis so the Khan-Prescott, Khan-Garcia and Hamed-Barrera fights were tough pills to swallow. Lewis-Rahman 1 hit me pretty hard but it just made the revenge so much sweeter. Never liked Hatton or Haye so I was always happy when they lost.