Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2012 June 21

= June 21 =

Question about boxing and rematches
With the controversy of Manny Pacquiao's controversial loss to Timothy Bradley, perhaps one of the most controversial fight results in recent memory, not yet dying down, and with Pacquiao now wanting a rematch, I was thinking – has there ever been cases where a boxer scored a controversial upset over a champion but later refused to have a rematch? For example, Boxer A scores a controversial upset over Boxer B, but later Boxer A declines Boxer B's request for a rematch. Has such a thing ever occurred? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew
 * Certainly. George Foreman was stripped of his title after refusing a rematch after a controversial victory over Axel Schulz (just as one example.) I found this interesting article while researching this. --jpgordon:==( o ) 16:06, 21 June 2012 (UTC)