Most blantant dive taken in a fight?

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energie wrote:seldon against tyson
That was truly pathetic.

How did Seldon get paid for that? :o
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Shannon Taylor KO round 1 vs Livingstone Bramble 1995, is number one on my worst ever dives list. Taylor seemed genuinely embarrassed.
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This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVaDXr7x7s always looked suspicious to me.
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Syntax Error wrote:
energie wrote:seldon against tyson
That was truly pathetic.

How did Seldon get paid for that? :o
Yea really. Down twice from invisible blows, tyson really had some horror factor back then. Funny to think a 'heavyweight champion' would basically dive on the ground rather than fight to defend his title.
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orbtastic wrote:McNeeley/Tyson was a bigger fix, not that he actually dived but...

http://deadspin.com/why-i-fixed-fights-1535114232
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/68 ... ight-fixed
Signing the contract was the fix part, but the "cocoon of horror" quote..... priceless. :bow:
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klompton wrote:Briggs against Green.
This one takes the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrysDcXajE0

Briggs went down from Green holding the top of his head.
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Sittin Sonny wrote:
klompton wrote:Briggs against Green.
This one takes the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrysDcXajE0

Briggs went down from Green holding the top of his head.

fookin hilarious , my 3 yr old daughter taps me on the head harder !
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Thomas Hearns vs Marcos Geraldo!
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rd350lc wrote:
Sittin Sonny wrote:
klompton wrote:Briggs against Green.
This one takes the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrysDcXajE0

Briggs went down from Green holding the top of his head.

fookin hilarious , my 3 yr old daughter taps me on the head harder !
The amount of Aussies who have vehemently defended that as legitimate ("Greeny simply punches that hard!") is laughable too.
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Apparently Lee Oma's dive against Bruce Woodcock was laughable.
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Sittin Sonny wrote:
klompton wrote:Briggs against Green.
This one takes the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrysDcXajE0

Briggs went down from Green holding the top of his head.
looks to me that Greens left hook upshot grazed Brigg's temple.
and Briggs may have been so nervous,high strung and wired in the opening seconds that it did Ko him.
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orbtastic wrote:McNeeley/Tyson was a bigger fix, not that he actually dived but...

http://deadspin.com/why-i-fixed-fights-1535114232
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/68 ... ight-fixed
This is such bullshit and ill tell you why. McNeeley was never going to beat Tyson on the best night of his lif. He was shit with a padded record. And who cares? Tyson hadnt fought in years, only a moron would have matched him tough in his first fight out of prison. In fact he was matched too tough too quick but they wanted to rush him to the title. Vecchione may have stopped the fight prematurely by seconds robbing people of the spectacle of a tyson ko but McNeeley was on his way out in mere seconds. Peter wasnt a pimple on his dads ass and his dad wasnt much either.
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mike Tyson was the biggest fraud in boxing history. without his setups you would never heard of him.

buster douglass proved he was a hyped up phoney, as did evander holyfield. and lennox lewis.
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Has anyone mentioned Michael Gomez walking out of that fight he was winning
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L.A. kidd wrote:mike Tyson was the biggest fraud in boxing history. without his setups you would never heard of him.

buster douglass proved he was a hyped up phoney, as did evander holyfield. and lennox lewis.
wow, is it me or do I detect a note of cynasim there?
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L.A. kidd wrote:mike Tyson was the biggest fraud in boxing history. without his setups you would never heard of him.

buster douglass proved he was a hyped up phoney, as did evander holyfield. and lennox lewis.
To be fair to him, he was about 12 - 15 years past his best when he fought Lewis.

I agree about Douglas & Holyfield though; they confirmed that he was largely a bully with no plan B.
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Brucie :salut:
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