Times when the loser came out the winner

[Foggy]

Abit of Sunday fun, can you recall any fights where the loser actually came out in the public’s eye as the winner or their career benefited from the loss I.e. moved them forward

I’ll start off with a couple:-

Lewis - Vitali - crowd was really pro Vitali at the end

Froch - Groves - Groves felt like the winner even though he lost

On a side note never really happened for Collazo did it against Hatton, many felt Collazo won but it never catapulted him to bigger and better things

[margaret thatcher]

countdown till ppl start bitching at each other about lewis-klit for the 10 billonth time ......

[margaret thatcher]

bradley-provo, provo got a lot of new fans and got a world title shot straight after ,which he won

[Fearful_Freddie]

Wlad vs Joshua?

[bigjack]

countdown till ppl start bitching at each other about lewis-klit for the 10 billonth time ......

Klit would have won IF

1:The fight was a 5 round contest
2:Lewis didn't perform open surgery on his clock
3 Lewis had actually lost
apart from that Klit did win

[stujones]

Eubank's final three losses - springs to mind.

Whilst not about the fight itself - but Tyson's post fight interview vs Lewis brought a lot of praise.

[stujones]

One British fight going way back when - but Louis vs Farr...... Clay vs Cooper...... Ali vs Wepner.

A bit more recent - McAuley vs Bassa.

Villasana vs Hodkinson.

[PredatorHayds]

Cotto-Margarito.

Turned him from the Puerto Rican Superstar to the cult hero that Boxing fans Worldwide rooted for.

Ken Buchanan- Everyone says how well he boxed against Duran. It’s potentially his signature fight and the bollox punch is blamed. (Personally I thought Duran battered him, hardly gave him a round)

[Terminator666]

Rocky one

[Foggy]

Strum - De la Hoya, another where the crowd cheered Sturm

[mickey1975]

Froch-Groves 1 made GG a millionaire and a household name.

[coghaugen11]

Eubank Sr’s last three fights

[TheGoods]

Billy Conn v The Brown Bomber

[DrDuke]

Norton-Ali III. Norton won the fight and the crowd knew it.

[Deserter]

Eubank Sr’s last three fights

Jesus, even when someone has already literally just said that, you just can't help yourself ...

[coghaugen11]

Eubank Sr’s last three fights

Jesus, even when someone has already literally just said that, you just can't help yourself ...

I don’t have time to read messages on an internet board.

[jameswilson]

Eubank's final three losses - springs to mind.

Whilst not about the fight itself - but Tyson's post fight interview vs Lewis brought a lot of praise.

Even the bit where he said

‘I take my hand off to you.’

[gilgamesh]

Barrera vs Morales 1

Most felt that Barrera had won, and over the next few years following that bout Barrera's career definitely moved past Morales' at that time.

[Grilling Machine]

Parker against Whyte and McCloskey against Khan, where headbutts swayed opinion towards rematches that never happened.

[Deserter]

Eubank Sr’s last three fights

Jesus, even when someone has already literally just said that, you just can't help yourself ...

I don’t have time to read messages on an internet board.

The inherent contradiction in this statement says it all

[Finkel]

Luis Ortiz - Deontay Wilder 1 (Ortiz was seen as being hard done by through doctor interference and his reputation as some avoided killer was only enhanced)

Razor Ruddock - Mike Tyson 1&2 (Ruddock was viewed as the second best guy in the division after Mike of course, the reality was quite different)

Jack Dempsey - Gene Tunney 2 (long count controversy)

[bennie]

Duran against Hagler in a full 15-rounder. Hagler was coming off crushing wins over Fully Obel, Caveman Lee, Tony Sibson and Wilford Scypion. He looked a monster but Duran had no fear. Harry Mullan wrote, "It was Hagler's fight but Duran's night."

[margaret thatcher]

morales got tons of love when losing to maidana too

[gregregegg]

Junior fa recently vs Parker

Rivas vs Whyte (if he got back in there quick, but he wasted that little bit of momentum)

Plus Any time a no name gets robbed by a big name... but in all of them the critical thing is to not shut your mouth after that, so often people go quite and a year later the result is just remembered via boxrec...

what you need to do is every time the guy that robbed you wins you gotta do 5 interviews calling him a bitch and asking for a rematch, and reminding the world of the fact you should of won that fight.

[margaret thatcher]

richard lartey vs dubois

created this bizarre idea that lartey is a some type of dangerman for promising prospects. you had people even picking him to beat gorman, or at minimum to push him hard

the guy hasnt won a round vs anyone with a pulse, dating back to the time he fought some rando turkish prospect and lost every round before quitting at the end of the 5th. maybe the beard hypnotizes people