The top 10 stinkers I've had the dis-pleasure to watch!!

1. Warring vs Nelson
2. Tyson vs Smith
3. Deleon vs Nelson (Done well Johnny to make it twice)
4. Holmes vs Spinks
5. Ali vs Bugner
6. Lewis vs Akinwande
7. Thomas vs Berbick
8. Fenech vs Richardson
9. Page vs Tubbs
10 Hines vs Van Horn..................................................

Make sure you take the noose, electric chair or the needle option instead.....

Skelton v Sprott. Remember watching it in a hotel room and thought it was awful. It made me yearn for Big Brother, a programme I detest.

Nardiello vs Malinga also sticks badly in the memory given it was a world title fight. Both men seemed to want to lose the fight. Nardiello was only slightly less bad than Malinga.

I tried to stick to title fights as you'd think being that standard they'd no better..

You're right though....those fights stunk.....Skelton, Sprott, Williams and Audley what a stinking bunch.

Super D Boon wrote:Skelton v Sprott. Remember watching it in a hotel room and thought it was awful. It made me yearn for Big Brother, a programme I detest.

Excellent shout. Without a doubt the worst fight I've stayed up late to watch. I was still at school back then - and my Dad was so bored he went to wash up rather than watch 10 further rounds. Meanwhile I waited, convinced something was about to happen and increasingly confused as to why - it didn't. In fact - all of the domestic fights in those days of yore - between Gammer, Sprott, Skelton, Williams and McDermott - they were mostly terrifyingly, stultifyingly boring.

Apologies Truss - didn't realise we were only doing titles.

Floyd-Baldy was pretty dull.

Ibragimov - Wlad was, in my opinion the most boring Heavyweight unification fight in history. I challenge anyone to come up with a worse fight.

Got to agree with Skelton Sprott, was worse than watching a Hollyoaks omnibus. Did anyone catch Haskins Broadhurst a couple of years ago, anyone who did will not forget that in a hurry, no matter how hard they try.

Pacquiao v Clottey
Pacquiao v Mosely
Haye v Harrison
Froch v Dirrell

I can't think of any others, but those are fights that I questioned my love of the sport for.

rowley wrote:Got to agree with Skelton Sprott, was worse than watching a Hollyoaks omnibus. Did anyone catch Haskins Broadhurst a couple of years ago, anyone who did will not forget that in a hurry, no matter how hard they try.

Fond memories of the Hollyoaks omnibus on a Sunday afternoon many years back. Used to help me with my inevitable hangover. I never followed the stroylines though.

Calzaghe Starie was pretty awful. I was there, really hurt Joe that one, was on a Tyson bill and a big opportunity to raise his profile, am pretty sure anyone who saw that one was in no hurry to watch him again.

At least in Hollyoaks you can pretend your still young enough do some damage to the female half of the cast....

Bugner vs Frazier sticks in the mind...Marvis that is....and Tillis vs Shavers!!!

Ali v Jimmy Young was another stinker.

Not sure the Spinks fights were much better.....

Ali started to stink post-Frazier 3.....

if you're talking big fights... you'd do well to out bore haye v wlad. If it wasn't for the glimmer of anticipation that haye's 1 punch a round might land, and it became increasingly obvious it wouldn't, there was zero in way of action, entertainment or excitement

Can I include a British title fight? Paul Smith v Tony Quigley. Bloody awful and Quigley appeared to believe that turning up and smothering Smith with his moobs was the way to win the title. Smith did try to fight but unfortunately lacked the ability.

If we're talking about world title bouts, then Mike McCallum versus Sean Mannion was just about as dour as it gets. Gave very little indication of the glorious 154 lb reign which 'The Bodysnatcher' was about to have.

But I'd agree that, on the domestic front, Sprott-Skelton takes some beating. The fact that it was a world title eliminator simply makes it an even blacker day in boxing history.

milkyboy wrote:if you're talking big fights... you'd do well to out bore haye v wlad. If it wasn't for the glimmer of anticipation that haye's 1 punch a round might land, and it became increasingly obvious it wouldn't, there was zero in way of action, entertainment or excitement

Hence Wlad-Sultan wins out in terms of "dullness" stakes.

Johnny Ruiz' HW efforts were pretty special. For instance - Ruiz v Holyfield 2? That was a stinker.

Froch v Dirrel was a shocker
Johnny Nelson against some guy I cant remember.So bad i turned it off and havent watched him again
Funso Banjo against Hugh Currie was pretty dire and some titles were on the line there!!

Hey skidd.... funny we've just been talking about machine squats...

Johnny Nelson he could cure the worst of insomniacs..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Hey skidd.... funny we've just been talking about machine squats...

Johnny Nelson he could cure the worst of insomniacs..

He's an entertaining pundit for such a boring fighter. Which I, for one, find strange.

oxring wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Hey skidd.... funny we've just been talking about machine squats...

Johnny Nelson he could cure the worst of insomniacs..

He's an entertaining pundit for such a boring fighter. Which I, for one, find strange.

Have got his autobiography Oxy, for such a dull fighter is a surprisingly enjoyable read.

In fairness he has got all his wits about him and he's pretty well spoken for a fighter...

Guess all that hugging and running wasn't too detrimental to his health!!

McGuigan is the one who surprises me the most. Outstanding pundit - yet also a very exciting fighter.

Find him a little self absorbed Oxy.....Always turns conversations back to his career too much......I've met Hamed at a work function but not Barry however one of my colleagues has and said he was a little arrogant...

Hows Hamed in the flesh? I'd have thought he'd come across worse than Barry.

He was.....Spent time winding up the security men who were itching to get stuck in by the look of it..

The only thing Hopkins vs Dawson has going for it was that it was only 2 rounds, that was shaping up to be real borefest. Alexander vs Bradley is one that sticks in my mind as being a recent shocker as well.

What was the Hopkins vs Wright fight like? Can only presume its a bad one but it's one I haven't actually seen.

The two fights recently bored me to tears.
Donaire - Narvaez, it was just virtually no action at all apart from one good flurry that Donaire landed in the 4th which made Narvaez say hell to the no I am not getting involved at ALL! It was so bad even Donaire said - I'm Bored!!!
Norton - Williams, I don't know why anyone would want to watch this fight, Norton is the most boring fighter to have lived and Williams, well he's a try-hard to be fair, but was just utterly utterly confused for the entire fight. I was just screaming throw a bloody punch. Made Haye - Harrison look like a FOTY contender.
I think you could throw almost every Audley fight in the mix.
Nearly all Johnny Nelson fights.
Cintron - Williams. Stayed up until 5.30 am to watch it thinking oh my goodness rubbing my hands at two big knockout guys going at each other only for Cintron and Williams decide to not throw a punch in fear of getting caught then Cintron falling out of the ring and couldn't continue.
alex Arthur - Gobaldaze (sp?) I think this was for a title, I can't stand watching Arthur fight anyway, but this nearly killed me.
Enzo Mac - Braithewaite, Two big punchers not really landing, to be fair not awful but it was pretty boring.
Bradley - Alexander, I mean this was possibly one of the worst fights I had gotten excited about ever, the fact it almost went twelve, was stopped because Alexander didn't like a bit of blood, or throwing punches and Bradley just kept running in head first into Alexander, it was just AWFUL!

Problem with Hoppo is he can only fight 30 secs a round these days..

oxring wrote:Hows Hamed in the flesh? I'd have thought he'd come across worse than Barry.

Met him a couple of times.Arrogant idiot.I have a friend who's interest in boxing starts and ends with Amir Khan.She goes to all of his fights and has met Naz at the after fight parties .She couldnt believe he had been a boxer and found him obnoxious

Super D Boon wrote:Nardiello vs Malinga also sticks badly in the memory given it was a world title fight. Both men seemed to want to lose the fight. Nardiello was only slightly less bad than Malinga.

Was Malinga ever in a decent fight? I was delighted when Jones Jr sparked him because I thought he'd retire, but he carried on sucking the life out of opponents.

He managed to make hoodwink Benn into a borefest, and his fight against Reid was atrocious.

Funnily enough malinga and the fact he lost twice to Eubank......Is the main reason I hold Eubank in higher esteem....

rowley wrote:Calzaghe Starie was pretty awful. I was there, really hurt Joe that one, was on a Tyson bill and a big opportunity to raise his profile, am pretty sure anyone who saw that one was in no hurry to watch him again.

My word yes that was poor!

Joe had a run of shockers for a while until Sheika spiced things up a bit.

skidd1 wrote:Froch v Dirrel was a shocker
Johnny Nelson against some guy I cant remember.So bad i turned it off and havent watched him again
Funso Banjo against Hugh Currie was pretty dire and some titles were on the line there!!

Guillermo Jones? Don King had him.

Wlad Klitschko has been in a few bore fests too.

Lennox Lewis against Mavrovic was not great either.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Funnily enough malinga and the fact he lost twice to Eubank......Is the main reason I hold Eubank in higher esteem....

It was Benn that fought him twice, and went 1-1 (I thought he lost both). Eubank beat him once, I'm fairly sure.

my mind playing games ...I'm sure you're right...

still have Chris slightly higher..

Malinga v Robin Reid the fight where Reid decided he didn't want to risk been hit as Jim Watt put it.
Johnny Nelson against anyone, always hoped someone would knock him spark out before he retired.
I hated watching Pat Cowdell fight effective but awful to watch.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:my mind playing games ...I'm sure you're right...

still have Chris slightly higher..

Agreed.

Pacquiao against Mosley was pants.

Yeah pacquiao Mosley was awful. Not the worst ever but I found calzaghe Hopkins to be a turgid affair.

Nico the gman wrote:Malinga v Robin Reid the fight where Reid decided he didn't want to risk been hit as Jim Watt put it.
Johnny Nelson against anyone, always hoped someone would knock him spark out before he retired.
I hated watching Pat Cowdell fight effective but awful to watch.

You must have loved watching him get sparked by Nelson then.
Thought his fight with Salvador Sanchez was really good, makes me rate him much higher.

Bob wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Funnily enough malinga and the fact he lost twice to Eubank......Is the main reason I hold Eubank in higher esteem....

It was Benn that fought him twice, and went 1-1 (I thought he lost both). Eubank beat him once, I'm fairly sure.

Benn always seemed to struggle against awkward opponents and yesm, Benn for my money clearly lost the first fight against Malinga, which as I remember, was a pretty boring fight as well actually.

AlexHuckerby wrote:

Nico the gman wrote:Malinga v Robin Reid the fight where Reid decided he didn't want to risk been hit as Jim Watt put it.
Johnny Nelson against anyone, always hoped someone would knock him spark out before he retired.
I hated watching Pat Cowdell fight effective but awful to watch.

You must have loved watching him get sparked by Nelson then.
Thought his fight with Salvador Sanchez was really good, makes me rate him much higher.

I thought Sanchez would batter him but his style made him hard to hit,watched the fight against Azumah live on the box, and Cowdell decides to be the aggressor bit like a peashooter going up against a cannon,had to watch the replay to see the punch connect very quick and destructive.

Cowdell was a spoiler really wasn't he......

Thought he was exciting in the Nelson fight though..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Cowdell was a spoiler really wasn't he......

Thought he was exciting in the Nelson fight though..

Haha, the whole 30 seconds

I can't believe no one has mentioned Calzaghe vs Manfredo Jr. Truly terrible

bhb001 wrote:I can't believe no one has mentioned Calzaghe vs Manfredo Jr. Truly terrible

Well.. to be fair it ended pretty fast.

AlexHuckerby wrote:

bhb001 wrote:I can't believe no one has mentioned Calzaghe vs Manfredo Jr. Truly terrible

Well.. to be fair it ended pretty fast.

True. Be thankful for small mercies I suppose

Is... mercies.... a word..Not trying to be funny with you...only I've never seen it spelt like that!!!

Sometimes things are spelt different here...????

Just looks kind of French but maybe it's bonafide I don't know...