Lowest quality World Title fight on these shores

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Lowest quality World Title fight on these shores

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Somebody hit me up with a worse one than this scrap right now
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Nelson v DeLeon
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Enzo Maccarinelli vs Bobby Gunn
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maverick23 wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:11 Enzo Maccarinelli vs Bobby Gunn
This one immediately came to my mind as well.

The good old days of joke artists appearing in the WBO rankings for one cycle just so Scott Harrison, Enzo and Joe could get another easy defence in.
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maverick23 wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:11 Enzo Maccarinelli vs Bobby Gunn
Beat me to it
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Amir Khan vs Dimitri Salita was a shocker. It was PPV too so double shocker
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Herbie Hide - Damon Reed
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chad wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:20 Amir Khan vs Dimitri Salita was a shocker. It was PPV too so double shocker
Was a mandatory defense as well... Some how
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salita has done pretty well as a promoter, at least compared to the other pugs who gave it a shot. i wonder if those jewish hats (yamaka?) give them extra brain power
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Yeah Herbie Hide had some shocking and yeah the Gunn one vs Maccerinelli are the ones I can remember.

Salita was poor but he had some okay wins so I wouldn't put him in the league of the others..... Joe Calzaghe also had some shockers aswell.
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Ball vs Bridges sure doesn't scream quality world title bout does it...
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jameswilson wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:15
maverick23 wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:11 Enzo Maccarinelli vs Bobby Gunn
This one immediately came to my mind as well.

The good old days of joke artists appearing in the WBO rankings for one cycle just so Scott Harrison, Enzo and Joe could get another easy defence in.
Gunn v Ademek for the IBF version wasn't any better
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Boxing Prospect wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 18:01 Ball vs Bridges sure doesn't scream quality world title bout does it...
Jesus wept, I just looked up the record of Bridges, 4-0 and the combined record of her opponents is 9-22-4 :o
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Bellew v Clev
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Charlie Edwards vs that spanish windmiller
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Calzaghe has some mid career shockers

Tocker Pudwill / Will McIntyre
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Herbie Hide vs Willi Fischer
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Scott Harrison - Samuel Kebede

David Haye - Audley Harrison
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Liam Smith v Jimmy Kelly.
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Eamonn Loughran - Angel Beltre I & II

One of any number of WBO title fights masquerading as world title contests in the 90's.
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knockout wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 18:50 Calzaghe has some mid career shockers

Tocker Pudwill / Will McIntyre
McIntyre was in Denmark.
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on paper Alex Arthur vs Nicky Cook may not have been that bad but it was easily one of the worst fights I've ever seen
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More WBO Entries

Naseem Hamed - Said Lawal

Johnny Nelson - Willard Lewis
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milpool wrote: 04 Oct 2020, 17:03 Nelson v DeLeon
Spot on, that fight could put you off boxing for life. I remember watching it and feeling like I'd aged at least ten years by the end of it
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Ricky Burns vs Nicky Cook
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