The 10 Worst Cheap Shots in Sports
by Yes, I'm A Girl | March 24, 2009 - 10:16am | 18 comments - 227 reads
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Straight to the head. Even the clueless probably remember the hit from the 2006 World Cup when Zinedine Zidane, one of the greatest players of all time, punctuated his illustrious career with this exclamation into the chest of Italian Materazzi.
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Saving face. I have to say, I give Houston's Aubrey Coleman props for sheer balls about his utter disregard for Arizona's Chase Budinger and, well, the general rules of good sportsmanship. Check out this stand up move.
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Puck you, Hunter. I have my own issues with the anger management of hockey players (and the fact that their insipid little brawls are "part of the game")... regardless, Dale Hunter deserved to be punched in the face after his cry-baby tantrum check separated Pierre Turgeon's shoulder.
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Warren Sapp hits Chad Clifton. Minus his appearance on "Dancing with the Stars," it's pretty much a given that Warren Sapp is a badass. At least it was until he blind-sided Packer linesman Chad Clifton with a nowhere-near-the-ball tackle when Tampa Bay played Green Bay in the 2002 season and almost ended Clifton's career. Unfortunately I can't find a video, but there's a picture above. Note the other players moving toward the play while Sapp levels Clifton well outside of the action. The tackle was called legal, but that still doesn't excuse Sapp from being a douchebag.
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Say jeez. Everyone's favorite cross-dressing professional basketball player really outdid himself in this 1997 game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Instead of rolling with the fact that the court is lined with cameramen and other press types, Dennis Rodman got angry at the one guy he landed on while going up for a shot and decided to kick him... in the nuts. Fast forward to 2:40. Keeping it classy, Rodman. Keeping it classy.
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Don and don.Okay, I'll admit, Don Zimmer did look like he was going to have a go at Pedro Martinez. But come on, the man's like 102 and Pedro threw him down like a sack of potatoes. Way to stick it out for your team Martinez, glad to see you can at least hit something.
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Wayne Rooney's shot to the junk.At first glance of the red ejection card in the 2006 World Cup's England/Portugal game, you almost feel sorry for England's little trucker of a forward Wayne Rooney. Until you see why the card was issued....
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Money shot. Bi-polar, shmi-polar, boxer James Butler's 2001 post-match sucker punch to Richard "The Alien" Grant at Roseland Ballroom is so fantastically effed up, it's kind of like watching a bad B movie about a retired boxer who takes on a young padwan only to be betrayed by said student and then challenged to a brawl. All right, maybe it's not, but Butler's move definitely hits the Tommy Gun level of a-hole.
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Seeing as Sapp was a DT and the Bucs have the ball, this is clearly and interception. Meaning Sapp appears to be throwing a clean block. It’s Clifton’s fault if he didn’t have his head on a swivel.
pretty good list but you left off the worst cheapshot of all time: 1/12/92 changed my life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBUvfFr0iE&feature=related
Great list, but you missed the greatest cheap shot in history… It is from an Aussie rules football game.
Definitely worth a look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fu0x1xNTuI
Are you F’ing kidding me - this ended a mans career by breaking his neck and giving him permanent effects from the concussion. Seriously horrible list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9RE9RGrVY
Wow Men and real idiots!! Just like this site…
im with setman, not only was the bertuzzi-moore incident recent (relatively), but it was significantly cheaper than some of these.
How can you leave the crosby cheap shot off? HOW?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wqR17KrLKw
what about that little cunt Ulf Sammuelson cheap shotting legendary Bruin Cam Neely and prematurely ending what would be a first ballot hall of fame career.
Kermit Washington sucker-punched Rudy Tomjanovich in an NBA game back in the ‘70s. The punch ended Tomjanovich’s playing career, and he needed about two years’ worth of reconstructive surgery on his face.
The Boston Bruins’ Dave Forbes was actually arrested and charged with assault after he rammed the butt end of his stick into the eye of Minnesota’s Henry Boucha in 1975, leaving Boucha with a cracked eye socket and permanent double vision. Unfortunately, the jury deadlocked and the case was dismissed.
You want the worst cheap shot of all time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI-sYE1DsMs&feature=related
You get a clear view @ 1:45. First guy sucker punches him from behind, 2nd guy comes in WHILE HE’S MOTIONLESS ON THE ICE and just chops the hell out of his head/face.
I’m sorry if any Michigan Staters read this board, I’ve got plenty of friends going there, but these two barbarians should’ve been locked up—they don’t deserve to be part of a civil society.
i’d say that Pauly D’s sucker punch to that guy at Karma was pretty heinous. Pauly D actually put an end to that guy’s gaming on bitches that night. No, that was not “a clean right cross” you greasy guido.
WHERE IS TODD BERTUZZI ON THIS LIST?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9RE9RGrVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aplfhPu4iiU
The tile, “Troy Polamalu is a thug, and a shit human being” pretty much says it all. Shocked it didn’t make the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-JYp25Bx0
NHL, Todd Bertuzzi breaking Steve Moore’s neck.
Seriously? Steve Moore’s career being taken from him from some Chanuck dickface is not on this list?
Seriously? Steve Moore’s career being taken from him from some Chanuck dickface is not on this list?
Albert “Thumper” Haynesworth? He stomped on a guys head when he was on the ground without his helmet