What are your top 10 most surprising or shocking moments in boxing history?

Question

Any era. I'll give my list later, thanks.

Answer 1

~ douglas beating tyson.

~ 21st -sept -'89,UK: british lightheavyweight tony wilson was  taking a beating from fellow brit steve mc carthy, when in the third round, wilson's mother somehow got onto the ring apron and when he came within range, she crack mc carthy across the head with the heal of her shoe forcing the ref to stop the contest.... which was awarded to wilson (tony, that is!).

~ dan sherry's antics during his middleweight title fight with chris eubank, claiming he couldn't continue after a headbut (it was only a tap).

~the WBC stripping graciano rocchigiani after roy jones told them he wanted it back after winning one of the heavyweight straps

~  ricardo mayorga smoking in the ring after a fight (at least i think it's mayorga).

~ fan man (r i p)

~ scoring for the first pernell whitaker - juan luis rameriz fight.

~ j c chavez turning from respected champ into a cry baby when fights didn't go his way (excuses after fights with whitaker, randall, and de la hoya etc).

~ george foreman kayoing michael moorer for the title.

~ lloyd honeyghan hitting johnny bumphas while he was still on his stool (bump city did take his time getting up though).

EDIT: forgot one.....

~ supermiddleweight darren morris died in 2000, however the WBO, in 2001, ranked him in their top 10.....then proceeded to move him UP in the ratings before the mistake was discovered.

Answer 2

Well without really thinking about it, and in no particular order:

1). Oliver McCall crying and refusing to fight in the middle of his rematch w/ Lennox Lewis

2). Tyson ear bite on Hollyfield

3). "Parachute man"

4). Trinidad decision over De La Hoya

5). Hopkins moving from middleweight to challenge for the light-heavy title VS Tarver and dominating (something Sugar Ray Robinson wasn't able to do).

6). Roy Jones starting his career at light middleweight and going on to eventually win the heavy weight title (conversely, Roy Jr. getting KO'd in the 2nd round by Tarver is another possiblity here).

7). Roberto Duran's "no mas" in the middle of a round VS Sugar Ray Leonard

8). Buster Douglas KO over Tyson

9). You just have to watch it!

http://www.spike.com/profile/flapjacks21...

10). Corrales TKO over Castillo in the 10th after being knocked down twice in the 10th.

Honourary mention:

- Ali VS. Liston (both I & II)!

- The aftermath of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini's fight with Duk Koo Kim.

Answer 3

My top 10 were in no order:

1. Richard Steele stopping the fight between Meldrick Taylor vs Juilo Cesar Chavez I with only 12 seconds left in the fight. A fight Taylor was winning.

2. Oliver McCall crying in the 5th round of the re-match between him and Lennox Lewis in 1996.

3. Larry Holmes getting jinxed in his title defense against Michael Spinks in 1985 after he told the press Rocky Marciano couldn't carry his jock strap. Blew his record breaking streak goodbye!

4. Wow! Mike Tyson getting KO'd by Buster Douglas in Tokyo in 1990. Man what I know about Tyson now I did not know when I was a kid. Tyson was a beast back then but lost to a 42 to 1 underdog!

5. Zab Judah getting caught by Kostya Tsyzu! A fight Judah was dictating but got careless! Believe it or not that KO was a curse for Judah and why he lost fights he could have won if he was focused.

6. Jack Johnson embarrassing James J. Jefferies in 1910. White America did not want Johnson as a champion and wanted him beat bad! So they called back a fighter who had to lose almost 100 pounds and watched him get schooled till they stopped the fight.

7.  Andrew Golota getting beat down by Riddick Bowe's crew in 1996 after hitting Bowe low multiple times including one that was combination to the NUTS! Golota was winning the fight! My only question is still why!

8. Joel Casamayor is a good boxer with technical skills but he should not have won his fight with Armaondo Santa Cruz. He lost that fight bad. I know bad decision come a dime a dozen but I bet I can get many to agree with me he did not win.

9. Larry Homes jumping off a car to kick Trevor Berbick over a dispute over Larry's wife. LOL that is still on Youtube.com...

10. Mike Tyson bitting on Lennox Lewis' leg at a press conference before their fight in 2002.

Answer 4

All the good ones are taken.

How about Tyson putting his mouthpiece in backwards when he tried to beat the 10 count against Douglas?

Riddick Bowe split his shorts against a guy name Coetzer, mooning the audience for about 5 rounds.

Simon Brown's twitching arm after getting knocked unconcious against...ermm...was it Phillips?

Ingemar Johannson's twitching foot after Floyd Patterson KO'd him.

In a fight in England, one of the boxer's outraged mother stormed the ring with her shoe and attacked her son's opponent.  Her boy won the fight when the opponent refused to finish the fight.

Ricky Hatton running headlong into the turnbuckle against Mayweather

NO MAS from Roberto Duran.

Richard Steele and Leon Spinks trying to fix a fight to take the title from Larry Holmes.

Zab Judah doing the chicken dance after a big right from Kostya Tszyu.

English boxing fans throwing beer bottles at Marvin Hagler when he took the title away from Minter.

Jack Dempsey over the ropes and into the crowd against Firpo.

Louis losing to Schmeling by ko.

The long count, Tunney/Dempsey.

Dempsey knocking out some guy, I think his name was Gunboat, in the 1940's, because Gunboat shoved Dempsey when Jack was reffing one of his fights.  

Didn't a 300 pound Foreman fight 5 guys in one night?

Answer 5

1983. Mike Weaver's left hook in the 15th round that sent Big John Tate crashing to the canvas and flopping like a fish. (Tate had won all of the first 44 minutes of the fight!)

Answer 6

In no particular order, other than as I recall them:

(1) Mike Tyson saying he wants Lennox Lewis' heart and to "eat his children"

(2) Mike Tyson biting off part of Holyfield's ear

(3) Mike Tyson getting KO'd by Douglas in the manner that he did, and his attempt to get up with mouthpiece hanging 1/2 way out of his mouth

(4) Marco Antonio Barrera's entanglement with Prince Naseem Hamed at mid-ring and his ramming of Hamed's face into the corner turnbuckle (and the crowd's outburst of cheers for it)

(5) The late Diego Corrales' unlikely TKO of Jose Luis Castillo just moments after being knocked down twice and nearly KO'd himself

(6) Doo Koo Kim's death following his fight with Ray Mancini

(7) Juan Manuel Marquez's getting knocked down 3 times in Round 1of Marquez vs. Pacquiao I -- and Marquez's display of heart and skill as he mounted his comeback in Rounds 2-12 of the same fight

(8) The last minute of Round 12 of Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I

(9) "Fan Man's" landing in the Ceasar's Palace ring, and the pummelling he took after that

(10)  Hassim Rachman's grotesquely swollen forehead (looked about the size of a grapefruit) in his fight against Holyfield

Answer 7

It was great fun reading the others answers, thumbs up to all of them.  Here's ten that weren't mentioned:

1.. Ali refusing military induction and being stripped of his title then barred from boxing.  

2. James Toney telling 20 reporters and their news crews that "Don King could kiss his @$$" after KOing Nunn.

3. Carbajal coming off the canvass after being knocked down twice by Humberto Gonzales to KO Humberto with a picture perfect left hook, long before the heroics of Diego Corrales against Castillo.

4. The bare knuckle brawl on Emanuel Stewards front lawn between Michael Moorer and Chuck Arnold, back when Mike was still at light heavy.  Arnold held his own.  (Philly ain't the only town with gym war stories)

5.  Hagler retiring after the Leonard fight and never looking back.

6.  The car accident that took Salvador Sanchez's life.

7. The plane crash that took Rocy Marciano's life.

8. Cassius Clay changing his name and converting to Islam.

9. Holyfield's claim of spiritual healing at the hands of Benny Hinn.

10. Detroit City officials covering the Joe Louis fist monument near the Joe Louis arena with a tarp to "not offend" the German's who eventually bought Chrysler during and "economic "visit" to Detroit some years back.

Now, with no regard to prior answers here is my top ten.

1. Gerald McClellan/Nigel Benn ending the way it did.

2. Chavez/Taylor ending the way it did.

3. Tyson biting Holyfields ear .

4. Ali's KO of Forman.

5. Jones getting KOed by Tarver.

6. Golata/Bowe riot in the Garden.

7. Louis/Schmeling 2

8. Jack Johnson's racial impact on boxing.

9. The spin on the NO MAS fight being portrayed in the American press to damage Duran's legacy when in fact it was an act of contempt by Duran directed at Ray's tactics.

10. It taking 3 days for them to give Buster Douglas the belt after his KO of Mike Tyson in Tokyo.

Answer 8

Good question! Here's my list, not in any particular order. Oh yeah, these are moments during my life time, by the way.

1. Mike Tyson biting off the ear of Evander Holyfield

2. James "Buster" Douglas beating Mike Tyson

3. That guy crashing into the ring during the Bowe-Holyfield fight

4. Roy Jones Jr. getting robbed at the '88 Olympics.

5. I can't remember the two guys names involved, but after the fight, the guy who lost the match sucker punched the winning guy after the fight, knocking his teeth out. That was probably one of the most terrible display of sportsmanship I had seen in any sport.

6. Richard Steele stopping the fight between Meldrick Taylor and Julio Cesar Chavez with only seconds to go in the bout.

7. Mike Tyson's comments about eating Lennox Lewis' children, which Lewis doesn't have.

8. Antonio Tarver's 2nd round knockout of Roy Jones.

9. George Foreman's knockout of Michael Moorer.

10. Oliver McCall's breakdown in the rematch with Lewis.

There are probably some other things that are more deserving to be on my list, but I did this list on the fly.

Answer 9

The good ones are all gone, but a very good and very funny read.

Fudd- I never fought in England, but that sounds like one of my fights.  My mom hated to see me lose more than I did. :D

The one that I remember that is not on here is Tyson being doing a videotaped interview telling a female reporter to shut up unless she was going to 'fornicate' with him.  "I usually don't talk to women unless I fornicate with them, so unless you wanna fornicate with me I suggest you shut up bitc..."

Answer 10

Probably the ear biting of Holyfield by Tyson.

The Fan man who flew down and got trapped in the ropes during the second Holyfield-Bowe fight.

Back about 6 years ago Richard Grant won a decision over James Butler. After the decision Grant went over to hug Butler and when he outstretched his arms Butler had his glove off with the tape still on his hands and suckered Grant right in the jaw and Grant went down and was in allot of pain. Butler was then arrested and taken from the ring in handcuffs and sent to prison shortly after for assault.  That one will always stick out in my mind.

note: Butler was later charged in the murder of Max Kellermans brother.

When Hasim Rachman's head had a swelling on it the size of a football in the Holyfield fight.

Jake LaMotta's face in the st valentines day massacre.

When Riddick Bowe dumped his WBC belt in the trash when he was to be striped for not fighting Lewis.

Ricardo Mayorga sticking his chin out and letting not only Vernon Forrest tea off in his chin. But then later Letting Trinidad do it was pretty nuts.

George Foremans Ko of Micheal Moorer.

When Tyson lost to Douglas.

The Gatti-Ward fights.. all of them

Ali-Liston and the phantom Punch

The Brawl ater the Golotta-Bowe fight.

Zab Judah grabbing Jay Nady by the neck

Tyson Vs Tubbs or Tucker i cant remember but In the ring after Tubbs complained about Low Blows from Tyson, Tyson said "LOW BLOWS! LOW BLOWS!!?? Mother ******* your about to die and your worried about low blows" that always stuck out in my mind because Tucker looked scared shitless after the comment.