Share your biggest miss . . .

[BattlingNelson]

Barkley over Hearns. So Barkley was qualified by beating Olajide. Who cared. He was up against hearns in order to be executed.
Toney over Nunn. Toney who? Wtf. This dude can’t beat boxing’s next superstar....

[Lomadeaux]

Mine was Pac Man vs. Del la Hoya - I not only got it wrong I mouthed off how annoyed I was that Oscar was grabbing and easy payday with a mismatch. Much, much egg on my face.

P.S. you can't use Tyson- Douglas - that's a cop-out - you have to pick one where you looked ****** not the whole world with you.

I was spot on with Pac-De La Hoya. I quoted that Pac would beat him way easier than Floyd did because of many factors including Pac's style. It's hard to say which is mine. Trying to think.. Most recently Loma-Lopez. Big upset. I honestly can't think of one. I'm sure I'll remember one soon.

[Ben Bolt]

The only time I bet on boxing was the first Leonard–Hearns encounter.
I had a large sum on Hearns. His loss had me bet no more (on boxing).

Still wondering, if it had been a 12-rounder, had Hearns succeeded?
Or had Leonard started his rally earlier?

Today, I believe Leonard would have find some way winning, even if
cutting those extra three rounds.

Judges scorecards after 12: 117-111, 117-112, 116-112 Hearns.

[Willie Pep 229]

The only time I bet on boxing was the first Leonard–Hearns encounter.
I had a large sum on Hearns. His loss had me bet no more (on boxing).

Still wondering, if it had been a 12-rounder, had Hearns succeeded?
Or had Leonard started his rally earlier?

Today, I believe Leonard would have find some way winning, even if
cutting those extra three rounds.

Judges scorecards after 12: 117-111, 117-112, 116-112 Hearns.

The history would have changed so if it had always been 12 - Marciano who? Braddock to Louis to Conn to Louis - Bramble a forgotten mandatory.

I am not sure I agree Hearns seemed so in charge after 12 ( save one very poor round earlier where SRL saw he could hurt him.) I think SRL that night needed the 14th round to be there.

I suspect he would have fought a different fight from the get go had it been 12 all along but if he found himself in the same position as that night, after ten rounds, he wouldn't be able to close it.

I thought SRL would have stopped Hearns again in the 12 round draw had there been another three that night.

I guess I'm talking in circles. It's hard to evaluate how the number of rounds changes a fight.

Johnson-Willard 45 rounds how does a fighter think that through?

[Ben Bolt]

Johnson-Willard 45 rounds how does a fighter think that through?

Had a laugh. Yes, how ? ...

[markusmod]

The only time I bet on boxing was the first Leonard–Hearns encounter.
I had a large sum on Hearns. His loss had me bet no more (on boxing).

Still wondering, if it had been a 12-rounder, had Hearns succeeded?
Or had Leonard started his rally earlier?

Today, I believe Leonard would have find some way winning, even if
cutting those extra three rounds.

Judges scorecards after 12: 117-111, 117-112, 116-112 Hearns.

I remember reading articles how people in Detroit mortgaged their homes to bet money on Hearns

[Ben Bolt]

I remember reading articles how people in Detroit mortgaged their homes to bet money on Hearns

Didn't know that, it sounds terrible … To risk everything for a bet in a sport, in which the guy
who is “without chance to win” still can come up with a lucky punch …

[BattlingNelson]

Didn't know that, it sounds terrible … To risk everything for a bet in a sport, in which the guy
who is “without chance to win” still can come up with a lucky punch …

Some poster here on boxing scene wrote in nsb before a particularly big fight, that his old dad had bet his entire pension on an outcome. This poster couldn’t talk him out of it.

Sadly his dad lost the bet....

Unfortunately I cannot remember what fight it was, but I recall that the poster was one of the credible ones sadly. Maybe there’s others in here that remember this?

[Ben Bolt]

his old dad had bet his entire pension on an outcome ...

Sadly his dad lost the bet....

It took me some 40+ years learning to appreciate the little things I’ve got, and not to be depressed over
the dreams I had, that never got fulfilled. (Is that the definition of having finally grown up?)
Make a bet here and there, but just for fun. Don’t expect it to change your life.

Some years ago, the British paper Daily Mirror (if I recall right) followed up five families that had hit the jackpot.
They got dreadfully rich in a moment, but after the first experience of excitement, their lives changed in a negative way.
The families shared the same story: Greed devastated us, and ruined relations between the family members.

Money is a source of security, but too much of it, and it seems we lose control of who we are, and wish to be ...

[Willie Pep 229]

I will leave my heirs enough money to do whatever they want but not enough to do nothing. Andrew Carnegie ( later repeated by Bill Gates).