Fighters stretchered out of ring after world title fight.

[ALI]

Tough topic. Thankfully a stretcher is rarely required.

After a world title fight, i'm struggling to think of many, but figure over the years it has probably happed quite a few times. First two that come to my mind are:

Szpilka v Wilder
McLellan v Benn

Any others?

[banjo]

Augie Sanchez vs Naz

[TheLeprechaun]

Johnny Owen

Last punch from Pintor was brutal. Seeing Owen distressed on the canvas is the one thing that really makes me question the sport

[Coco]

Luis Santana and Pedro Carrasco left on stretchers and won!

[bennie]

Johnny Owen

Last punch from Pintor was brutal. Seeing Owen distressed on the canvas is the one thing that really makes me question the sport

Mike Lockley did the report for BN from ringside and he left the magazine soon afterwards. Sean Sheahan also left BN after Steve Watt died in his fight with Rocky Kelly.

[TheLeprechaun]

Johnny Owen

Last punch from Pintor was brutal. Seeing Owen distressed on the canvas is the one thing that really makes me question the sport

Mike Lockley did the report for BN from ringside and he left the magazine soon afterwards. Sean Sheahan also left BN after Steve Watt died in his fight with Rocky Kelly.

I can understand that. I actually didn't know anything about Owen as he was way before my time but I picked up "The Big IF" from my local library and he seemed like such a good honest chap. When I got round to watching the fight I felt sickened that I was a fan of a sport that could do that to a person. It's alright saying McClellan was a pr*ck and to be fair he was an absolute bellend but you won't find one person who discredits Owens character and for him to die like that is so heartbreaking. The way he goes down from the last shot is haunting.

[bennie]

Johnny Owen

Last punch from Pintor was brutal. Seeing Owen distressed on the canvas is the one thing that really makes me question the sport

Mike Lockley did the report for BN from ringside and he left the magazine soon afterwards. Sean Sheahan also left BN after Steve Watt died in his fight with Rocky Kelly.

I can understand that. I actually didn't know anything about Owen as he was way before my time but I picked up "The Big IF" from my local library and he seemed like such a good honest chap. When I got round to watching the fight I felt sickened that I was a fan of a sport that could do that to a person. It's alright saying McClellan was a pr*ck and to be fair he was an absolute bellend but you won't find one person who discredits Owens character and for him to die like that is so heartbreaking. The way he goes down from the last shot is haunting.

I remember it all too well. Johnny languished in a coma for several weeks as the fight game seemed to unravel in the process, with a riot breaking out after Alan Minter fought a stupid fight against Marvin Hagler at Wembley, the once great Muhammad Ali embarrassing himself in a sickening encounter with a peak Larry Holmes and the seemingly untameable Roberto Duran quitting against Sugar Ray Leonard.

[orbtastic]

Mancini and Kim Duk-Koo is the obvious one, had huge-reaching implications for both the sport and everyone related to fight. Bizarrely, the Korean had a mock-up coffin made that he had threatened to bring Mancini back in.

The other really obvious one is Griffith/Paret III.

Then you've got Moore/Ramos, albeit he was talking and walking when he left the ring but not for much longer.

The infamous Duran/Lampkin fight and subsequent quote from Duran.

[fanman]

poor owen.
and to think that is precisely the purpose of the sport, what the fans demand. a brutal ko, which is no different from a death punch in actuality.

[orbtastic]

Completely forgot about hapless Jimmy Garcia, took a bit of a pounding from Ruelas.

Leavander Johnson too.

[handsofstone]

Kermit Cintron against Paul Williams

[PredatorHayds]

Mancini and Kim Duk-Koo is the obvious one, had huge-reaching implications for both the sport and everyone related to fight. Bizarrely, the Korean had a mock-up coffin made that he had threatened to bring Mancini back in.

The other really obvious one is Griffith/Paret III.

Then you've got Moore/Ramos, albeit he was talking and walking when he left the ring but not for much longer.

The infamous Duran/Lampkin fight and subsequent quote from Duran.

What was the Duran quote?
Watched this recently.

[bennie]

Mancini and Kim Duk-Koo is the obvious one, had huge-reaching implications for both the sport and everyone related to fight. Bizarrely, the Korean had a mock-up coffin made that he had threatened to bring Mancini back in.

The other really obvious one is Griffith/Paret III.

Then you've got Moore/Ramos, albeit he was talking and walking when he left the ring but not for much longer.

The infamous Duran/Lampkin fight and subsequent quote from Duran.

What was the Duran quote?
Watched this recently.

Duran said words to the effect of, he was lucky I wasn't in shape or he wouldn't be in the hospital, he'd be in the morgue. Duran brought a savagery to his fights that often permeated down the bill. Cleveland Denny died in a fight with fellow Canadian Gaetan Hart on the undercard to Duran's first fight with Leonard in Montreal in 1980. John Tate suffered a horrible knockout at the hands of Trevor Berbick on the same night. Once such a talented heavyweight, Tate never hit the heights again and wound up prematurely dead.
Billy Collins suffered his career-ending beating against Luis Resto on the undercard to Duran-Moore at Madison Square Garden when it was discovered that padding had been removed from Resto's gloves by his trainer Panama Lewis, for which both Resto and Lewis were jailed. A depressed Collins drove over a cliff. Charlie “White Lightning” Brown was horribly exposed by a fighter named Frank Newton on the undercard to Hagler-Duran in Las Vegas in 1983 but carried on and on until he plunged into the abyss. He died a fortnight ago at the age of 53. Boxing is all too real. Boxing can stink.

[orbtastic]

Yeah, that's right. He was out cold for over half an hour, probably more if you read some of the other reports, one of which says he only came round 30 minutes AFTER reaching the hospital. Pretty brutal considering he did at one point during the ten count attempt to get up. Duran did go to the hospital to visit him though and kissed him on the cheek.

[Stuarty]

AA v Dirrell?

[gilgamesh]

Completely forgot about hapless Jimmy Garcia, took a bit of a pounding from Ruelas.

Leavander Johnson too.

The Leavander Johnson one particularly bothered me, because I felt "Somebody needs to stop this" a few rounds prior to the actual stoppage. I remember Larry Merchant urgently saying at the end "THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED RIGHT NOW!!!!" but by then it was already too late. I wonder what would've happened if his corner had seen the writing on the wall, and stopped it after the 8th or 9th round? Perhaps it would've already been too late, we'll never know though.

I had that same sickening feeling watch Vitali beat on Briggs. Thankfully Briggs survived, but I remembered feeling like I might be watching a man be beaten to death if they didn't stop it.

Briggs did wind up spending a week or two in intensive care too, so that was certainly a case of a man being beaten to within an inch of his life.

[gilgamesh]

AA v Dirrell?

That was a sh*t acting job as far as I'm concerned. I never buy for a second Dirrell's "What's going on" act. He wasn't hit hard enough for all that.

That was the beginning of me hating Andre Dirrell.

[Stuarty]

AA v Dirrell?

That was a sh*t acting job as far as I'm concerned. I never buy for a second Dirrell's "What's going on" act. He wasn't hit hard enough for all that.

That was the beginning of me hating Andre Dirrell.

I already hated the wanker before that. He was a whining faced bitch!

[gilgamesh]

AA v Dirrell?

That was a sh*t acting job as far as I'm concerned. I never buy for a second Dirrell's "What's going on" act. He wasn't hit hard enough for all that.

That was the beginning of me hating Andre Dirrell.

I already hated the wanker before that. He was a whining faced bitch!

I was indifferent to him before the Abraham fight. After the Abraham fight I hated him with a passion.

[Stuarty]

That was a sh*t acting job as far as I'm concerned. I never buy for a second Dirrell's "What's going on" act. He wasn't hit hard enough for all that.

That was the beginning of me hating Andre Dirrell.

I already hated the wanker before that. He was a whining faced bitch!

I was indifferent to him before the Abraham fight. After the Abraham fight I hated him with a passion.

His performance there was laughable. Was glad to see that Venezuelan dude rattle him last time out.

[gilgamesh]

I already hated the wanker before that. He was a whining faced bitch!

I was indifferent to him before the Abraham fight. After the Abraham fight I hated him with a passion.

His performance there was laughable. Was glad to see that Venezuelan dude rattle him last time out.

Yeah I loved that. The way the 1st Uzcategui fight ended only furthered my already massive dislike of the guy

[Stuarty]

I was indifferent to him before the Abraham fight. After the Abraham fight I hated him with a passion.

His performance there was laughable. Was glad to see that Venezuelan dude rattle him last time out.

Yeah I loved that. The way the 1st Uzcategui fight ended only furthered my already massive dislike of the guy

Did they ever catch up with his fat shít bag uncle? He went on the run didn't he?

[gilgamesh]

Yeah I believe he was arrested, and charged for that situation.

[Stuarty]

Yeah I believe he was arrested, and charged for that situation.

Good. What a fuckin pleb he was!

[banjo]

Johnny Owen

Last punch from Pintor was brutal. Seeing Owen distressed on the canvas is the one thing that really makes me question the sport

I've always believed great sports have consequences, I see it every year here, a woman leaves here a widow, I question my own involvement sometimes, especially as I'm one of the ones building these powerful engines for some of these fellas.