Lowest quality World Title fight on these shores

[JxhDel.]

Charlie Edwards vs that spanish windmiller

That bout against Moreno was a long sparring session to guarantee Charlie a +1, one of the most forgettable main events I have witnessed on DAZN.

A totally washed-up John Ruiz against David Haye.

[Ruthless-RKO]

A totally washed-up John Ruiz against David Haye.

Least it was a little entertaining.

[JxhDel.]

A totally washed-up John Ruiz against David Haye.

Least it was a little entertaining.

It was nice to see Haye hopping around and dismantling Ruiz

[ShadrachSimmo]

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

Yes! You beat me to it. Total crock of sh1t a paper title fight. Arthur vs Martinez could have been a decent fight if Arthur won though.

[high tower 1]

Enzo v gunn. Gunn bragging about being the bareknuckle champ and eating a big right 10 seconds in. Timber!!!

[Onamastus]

Isn't it interesting that literally all of the fights mentioned are from the 1990s or later.

The WBO, and the promoters who favoured the WBO, really devalued world championship boxing.

[high tower 1]

Yeah I still don’t rate that belt as highly. Mind you they’ve all gone down over the past few years

[veriton]

Steve Robert's v Troy Lowry. I've still got the poster advertising it as world championship boxing.

[Black Sam Bellamy]

Chris Eubank Jnr versus Tony Jeter.

[handsofstone]

Stuart Hall vs Martin Ward


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[littlepug]

Dave McAuley had a couple of poor ones, can’t remember their surnames but one was called Pedro and another called Curtis

[Autobarn]

Mismatches aside, I’d say these were two very poor quality fights:

Bruno v McCall & Rees v M’baye

In both cases the Brit overachiever boxes well during the first half, then when they ran out of gas or ideas, held for dear life vs the visiting world champion.

[stujones]

I dont like making this suggestion as he was a quality operator over the years but....

Ricky Burns vs Nicky Cook?

[bennie]

Welsh wizard Howard Winstone and Japan's Mitsunori Seki met for the vacant WBC featherweight title at the Albert Hall in 1968 but both men had been chewed up by Mexico's Vicente Saldivar in previous world title challenges (Winstone three times; Seki twice) and were shadows of their former selves. Winstone won unconvincingly on cuts in nine rounds and lost the title in his first defence to Jose Legra. Seki never fought again.

[Counter-puncher]

Stuart Hall vs Martin Ward


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you can add Hall - Butler to that?

[Fray Bentos]

Welsh wizard Howard Winstone and Japan's Mitsunori Seki met for the vacant WBC featherweight title at the Albert Hall in 1968 but both men had been chewed up by Mexico's Vicente Saldivar in previous world title challenges (Winstone three times; Seki twice) and were shadows of their former selves. Winstone won unconvincingly on cuts in nine rounds and lost the title in his first defence to Jose Legra. Seki never fought again.

He boxed Jimmy Anderson in a 10 rounder and got floored in the process to a points win.

Mind you, Winstone vs Anderson would qualifiy for a WBC super title these days!

[bennie]

Welsh wizard Howard Winstone and Japan's Mitsunori Seki met for the vacant WBC featherweight title at the Albert Hall in 1968 but both men had been chewed up by Mexico's Vicente Saldivar in previous world title challenges (Winstone three times; Seki twice) and were shadows of their former selves. Winstone won unconvincingly on cuts in nine rounds and lost the title in his first defence to Jose Legra. Seki never fought again.

He boxed Jimmy Anderson in a 10 rounder and got floored in the process to a points win.

Mind you, Winstone vs Anderson would qualifiy for a WBC super title these days!

Yes, Jimmy Anderson was a really good fighter and I wonder what he is doing nowadays. He was one of Terry Lawless' first fighters.

[bennie]

Dave McAuley had a couple of poor ones, can’t remember their surnames but one was called Pedro and another called Curtis

Louis Curtis and Pedro Feliciano. To be fair to McAuley, he was tied to Mickey Duff after upsetting Duke McKenzie to win the IBF flyweight title. Duff had options on him and McAuley's first defence came at Wembley against southpaw Filipino Dodie Penalosa, who limped his way to the ring after a childhood bout with polio and proved a massive disappoinment as a former double world champion. It didn't get much better for McAuley, although nobody can take away his knockout win over Baby Jake Matlala, even though Jake was a blown-up light-flyweight.

[dbf]

Who did Witter make his first defence of the WBC against? Im sure it was woeful and in the UK?

[Ruthless-RKO]

Who did Witter make his first defence of the WBC against? Im sure it was woeful and in the UK?

Arturo Morua

[Delta Jay]

I dont like making this suggestion as he was a quality operator over the years but....

Ricky Burns vs Nicky Cook?

Is that when Cook’s back was injured and the fight ended pretty much immediately? If it was in the ExCel in London then I think I might’ve been there.

[Fray Bentos]

Probably Glenn McCrory vs Patrice Lubumba now I have had a good think about it - Lubumba wasn't really all what he was cracked up to be* and he was something like 9-3, McCrory deserved his title shot but how long would he have hung around with Holyfield if he had kept his IBF title.

Sammy Reeson vs DeLeon - Reeson wasn't prepared and he got belted around in a pretty one sided affair before he collapsed to the canvas in exhaustion - again, he deserved his shot but wasn't prepared, according to an interview with Buncey, he was 17 stone and sipping margaritas two months previously - which would explain it.

Nelson vs DeLeon was a good fight on paper and plenty thought Nelson would win but he just froze. it happens I suppose

* He beat both Jeff Lampkin and Alfonzo Ratliff in America - fornicate knows how based on his showing vs McCrory. He probably deserved his title shot more so than McCrory on those two back to back victories

[littlepug]

Dave McAuley had a couple of poor ones, can’t remember their surnames but one was called Pedro and another called Curtis

Louis Curtis and Pedro Feliciano. To be fair to McAuley, he was tied to Mickey Duff after upsetting Duke McKenzie to win the IBF flyweight title. Duff had options on him and McAuley's first defence came at Wembley against southpaw Filipino Dodie Penalosa, who limped his way to the ring after a childhood bout with polio and proved a massive disappoinment as a former double world champion. It didn't get much better for McAuley, although nobody can take away his knockout win over Baby Jake Matlala, even though Jake was a blown-up light-flyweight.

Yeah got better with age did the Matlala win.

[saliman]

Nathan Cleverly had some dull WBO light heavy defences (Krasniqi, Karpency, Kuziemski). Wasn't he the only UK champ at some point if I remember correctly? If so this was a bad era for British boxing.

[Onamastus]

The Nathan Cleverly days were dire. Didn't he first win a 'WBO interim world title'? I'd rather win a fiver on the scratch cards.