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** UFC light heavyweight Lyoto Machida (15-0, 7-0 [=UFC=]) had an odd form of curbstomping where he would make good opponents look bad by nullifying all of their offense and landing perfectly timed strikes. Machida uses a family variant of Shotokan karate combined with other MMA disciplines in a unique style that perplexed his opponents. [[http://www.fightmetric.com/blog/2009/05/is-lyoto-machida-best-fighter-in-ufc.html FightMetric has the numbers]], along with his [[http://www.fightmetric.com/Machida.html career numbers]]. However, Machida's dominance would fall threatened after lackluster performance against [[WorthyOpponent Mauricio "Shogun" Rua]] and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
** Controversial heavyweight slugger Kimbo Slice was scheduled to fight Ken Shamrock in the main event for ''Elite XC: Heat'' until Shamrock dropped out. Seth Petruzelli, a virtually unknown light heavyweight with a mediocre record, was pulled from his scheduled fight literally minutes before the event to face Kimbo. Petruzelli dropped Kimbo with a jab in 14 seconds.
*** This one was so bad that Elite XC folded almost immediately after the fight (due to mismanagement but also because the league was trying to build Kimbo Slice into the next Hulk Hogan, which failed due to the loss and Slice's lack of skills).

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* UFC light heavyweight Lyoto Machida (15-0, 7-0 [=UFC=]) had an odd form of curbstomping where he would make good opponents look bad by nullifying all of their offense and landing perfectly timed strikes. Machida uses a family variant of Shotokan karate combined with other MMA disciplines in a unique style that perplexed his opponents. [[http://www.fightmetric.com/blog/2009/05/is-lyoto-machida-best-fighter-in-ufc.html FightMetric has the numbers]], along with his [[http://www.fightmetric.com/Machida.html career numbers]]. However, Machida's dominance would fall threatened after lackluster performance against [[WorthyOpponent Mauricio "Shogun" Rua]] and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
* Controversial heavyweight slugger Kimbo Slice was scheduled to fight Ken Shamrock in the main event for ''Elite XC: Heat'' until Shamrock dropped out. Seth Petruzelli, a virtually unknown light heavyweight with a mediocre record, was pulled from his scheduled fight literally minutes before the event to face Kimbo. Petruzelli dropped Kimbo with a jab in 14 seconds.
** This one was so bad that Elite XC folded almost immediately after the fight (due to mismanagement but also because the league was trying to build Kimbo Slice into the next Hulk Hogan, which failed due to the loss and Slice's lack of skills).

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** Pretty much the only way to describe [[http://www.fightmetric.com/fights/Penn-Sanchez.html BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez]] UFC 107, where the victor took more strikes to the head ''celebrating'' than his opponent landed in five rounds.
** The very first UFC champion, Royce Gracie, curbstomped just about everything in sight from UFC 1-5 due to his opponents' unfamiliarity with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. UFC 2 was the most telling, as both he and Patrick Smith demolished three opponents to reach the final, and he proceeded to demolish Smith.
** Bas Rutten, a great fighter from the early days of MMA, did this to Jason Delucia in a Pancrase fight. Throughout the fight Delucia claimed Bas punched him in the face multiple times (closed fist strikes to the face were banned). After getting a yellow and red card, essentially losing 30% of his paycheck, Rutten proceeds to utterly demolish Delucia with [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82e1_bas-rutten-vs-jason-delucia_sport#from=embed body shots]] so powerful he actually ruptures Jason's liver.

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* Pretty much the only way to describe [[http://www.fightmetric.com/fights/Penn-Sanchez.html BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez]] UFC 107, where the victor took more strikes to the head ''celebrating'' than his opponent landed in five rounds.
* The very first UFC champion, Royce Gracie, curbstomped just about everything in sight from UFC 1-5 due to his opponents' unfamiliarity with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. UFC 2 was the most telling, as both he and Patrick Smith demolished three opponents to reach the final, and he proceeded to demolish Smith.
* Bas Rutten, a great fighter from the early days of MMA, did this to Jason Delucia in a Pancrase fight. Throughout the fight Delucia claimed Bas punched him in the face multiple times (closed fist strikes to the face were banned). After getting a yellow and red card, essentially losing 30% of his paycheck, Rutten proceeds to utterly demolish Delucia with [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82e1_bas-rutten-vs-jason-delucia_sport#from=embed body shots]] so powerful he actually ruptures Jason's liver.

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** The lead up to the recent Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton fight was built as perhaps the toughest challenge of the rising Pacquiao's career, who himself had curb-stomped his last two opponents, including the great (albeit way past his prime) Oscar de la Hoya. Hatton was close to his peak, bigger, and was unbeaten at 140 lbs, "his" weight. Come fight night, Pacquiao proceeded to absolutely destroy Hatton, using his blazing speed to beat Hatton consistently to the punch. He knocked Hatton down twice in the first round (the first one a right thrown before a Hatton left hook which Pacquiao smoothly ducked under in the same motion), then proceeded to put the solid-chinned Hatton out cold with a massive left hand at the end of the second round.
** Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks in 1988. A blind guy in a wheelchair could've put up a better fight than Spinks did.
*** Mike Tyson's famous comeback bout in 1995 against Peter McNeeley: The much-hyped fight broke the record for Pay-Per-View earnings. McNeeley took such a pounding his trainer entered the ring and called off the fight after just 89 seconds in the ring. There were accusations that the fight was set up to guarantee a victory, while Tyson was angry that he wasn't able to properly finish the fight.
** Joe Louis/Max Schmeling II. Schmeling had handed Louis his first defeat, which was considered by Nazi Germany to be a triumph for the "Aryan race." Several years later, the two fighters faced down in a rematch. This time, Schmeling went down in two minutes and four seconds, after being knocked down three times and throwing only two punches in the entire fight.
** Joe Calzaghe vs Peter Manfredo Jr. Despite remaining totally unbeaten throughout his career, Calzaghe still somehow managed to gain a mild reputation as being an overrated fighter with a habit of dodging his way out of "proper" fights. Peter Manfredo Jr., winner of SylvesterStallone's television reality series TheContender, judging from pre-fight interviews, evidently agreed with this summation. Thought the ensuing match didn't exactly put paid to the nastier rumours surrounding Calzaghe's prowess, it certainly brought Manfredo Jr. down a few pegs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvUmp5mQedY
** In 1919, at Toledo, Ohio, excitement was rising for a boxing match for the World Heavyweight Title. It was Jess Willard -who had a serious weight and height advantage over his opponent- versus Jack Dempsey. In the first round, Dempsey knocked Willard over ''seven times'', reputedly causing a broken jaw, broken ribs, fractured cheek bones, and a number of broken teeth. Willard looked like he'd been through a car accident.
** In 1999, the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] hosted Brawl For It All, a legitimate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughman_Contest Toughman Contest]]-style tournament amongst wrestlers who were RealLife tough-men. Surprising everyone, perennial [[{{Jobber}} curtain-jerker]] Bart Gunn ended up winning. As a true test, he was pitted in a match at WrestleMania XV against Toughman legend Eric "Butterbean" Esch, a massive man known for his knockout power. Butterbean knocked Gunn unconscious in 27 seconds, effectively killing his career in North America.

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* The lead up to the recent Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton fight was built as perhaps the toughest challenge of the rising Pacquiao's career, who himself had curb-stomped his last two opponents, including the great (albeit way past his prime) Oscar de la Hoya. Hatton was close to his peak, bigger, and was unbeaten at 140 lbs, "his" weight. Come fight night, Pacquiao proceeded to absolutely destroy Hatton, using his blazing speed to beat Hatton consistently to the punch. He knocked Hatton down twice in the first round (the first one a right thrown before a Hatton left hook which Pacquiao smoothly ducked under in the same motion), then proceeded to put the solid-chinned Hatton out cold with a massive left hand at the end of the second round.
* Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks in 1988. A blind guy in a wheelchair could've put up a better fight than Spinks did.
** Mike Tyson's famous comeback bout in 1995 against Peter McNeeley: The much-hyped fight broke the record for Pay-Per-View earnings. McNeeley took such a pounding his trainer entered the ring and called off the fight after just 89 seconds in the ring. There were accusations that the fight was set up to guarantee a victory, while Tyson was angry that he wasn't able to properly finish the fight.
* Joe Louis/Max Schmeling II. Schmeling had handed Louis his first defeat, which was considered by Nazi Germany to be a triumph for the "Aryan race." Several years later, the two fighters faced down in a rematch. This time, Schmeling went down in two minutes and four seconds, after being knocked down three times and throwing only two punches in the entire fight.
* Joe Calzaghe vs Peter Manfredo Jr. Despite remaining totally unbeaten throughout his career, Calzaghe still somehow managed to gain a mild reputation as being an overrated fighter with a habit of dodging his way out of "proper" fights. Peter Manfredo Jr., winner of SylvesterStallone's television reality series TheContender, judging from pre-fight interviews, evidently agreed with this summation. Thought the ensuing match didn't exactly put paid to the nastier rumours surrounding Calzaghe's prowess, it certainly brought Manfredo Jr. down a few pegs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvUmp5mQedY
* In 1919, at Toledo, Ohio, excitement was rising for a boxing match for the World Heavyweight Title. It was Jess Willard -who had a serious weight and height advantage over his opponent- versus Jack Dempsey. In the first round, Dempsey knocked Willard over ''seven times'', reputedly causing a broken jaw, broken ribs, fractured cheek bones, and a number of broken teeth. Willard looked like he'd been through a car accident.
* In 1999, the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] hosted Brawl For It All, a legitimate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughman_Contest Toughman Contest]]-style tournament amongst wrestlers who were RealLife tough-men. Surprising everyone, perennial [[{{Jobber}} curtain-jerker]] Bart Gunn ended up winning. As a true test, he was pitted in a match at WrestleMania XV against Toughman legend Eric "Butterbean" Esch, a massive man known for his knockout power. Butterbean knocked Gunn unconscious in 27 seconds, effectively killing his career in North America.

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!!Basketball
* The USA 2008 Olympic Basketball team curb stomped most of the planet at the Beijing Olympics. Named the Redeem Team as a play on the 1992 team's nickname of The Dream Team and as a indicator of how the team had struggled for a decade, they beat China by 31 points, Angola by 21 points, Greece by 23 points, reigning World Champion Spain by 37, then beat Germany '''by 49 points''' and easily made it to the knockout round. Once there, they beat Australia by 31 points in the first round, Argentina (who was the favorite coming into the Olympics) by 20 in the second round, then faced a rematch with Spain in the finals. Even though it was the only game the USA played that was remotely close, they still won the Gold Medal by a score of 118 to 107.
** While we're at it, the original 1992 Dream Team, the first Olympic team that NBA players were allowed to participate on, contained ten hall-of-famers and is pretty much the greatest team of all time. In any sport. Period. It utterly humiliated any and all of the outclassed teams it came into contact with, from the opener against Angola (won by 68) to the Gold Medal game against Croatia (won by 32), with coach Chuck Daly never feeling he had to call a time out. Likewise, the 1996 was only slightly less dominant, winning each of its games by an average of 31.8 points. It wasn't until the 2000 team (which won gold, but only after several close calls) and the 2004 team (known as the "nightmare team", losing to Puerto Rico, Lithuania, and Argentina before beating Lithuania in the rematch for the bronze) that it ever seemed like the rest of the world wasn't going to be forever curb-stomped on the court.
** Come 2012, the United States did it again. They won their group undefeated with a point differential of +191 and won the gold medal with only two close wins throughout the entire tournament: an unusual five-point victory over Lithuania and a seven-point win over perennial contender Spain in the finals. And let's not even get started on the US women's team, who won their fifth consecutive (seventh overall) gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
* This high school girl's basketball game had a final score of [[http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/108-3-girls-basketball-rout-raises-questions?urn=highschool-311327 108-3.]]
* HorseRacing legend Film/{{Secretariat}}'s ''thirty-one-length'' victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, which won him the Triple Crown. He set a record for a mile-and-a-half on dirt that is not only still standing but that has not even been approached; then he proceeded to set a track record for the mile-and-five-eighths ''while coasting out from under the wire''.
* At Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics managed to wrap-up the series and win their 17th NBA title by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92. The 39 Point margin is the largest margin of victory of a series-winning game in the history of the NBA finals.

!!Baseball
* Some notable curb stomps in Major League Baseball:
** August 22, 2007: Texas Rangers 30, Baltimore Orioles 3. Texas scored all of their runs after the Orioles had already jumped out to a 3-0 lead. And the game was ''in Baltimore'' too. Texas became the first major league baseball team to score 30 runs in a game in 110 years.
** May 18, 1912: Philadelphia Athletics 24, Detroit Tigers 2. In protest over a suspension handed down by American League President Ban Johnson against star player Ty Cobb, the rest of Cobb's Tigers teammates went on strike. The League threatened Detroit's owner with a $5000-per-game fine if he didn't field a team, so he ordered manager Hughie Jennings to find some replacement players. Jennings cobbled together a lineup of sandlot amateurs from the local neighborhoods and threw them out on the field against the Athletics, with predictable results. Cobb persuaded his teammates to end their strike the next day.
** October 2, 1936: In game 2 of the World Series, the New York Yankees bounced back from a 6-1 loss to the New York Giants in game 1 by shellacking the Giants 18-4 in game 2, which is still the most lopsided game in World Series history. There wasn't much doubt who was going to win the Series after that.
** Subverted in the 1960 World Series. The Yankees won three games by double-digit margins (16-3, 10-0, and 12-0), they outscored the Pirates 55–27, outhit them 91–60, posted a .338 batting average to Pittsburgh's .256, and hit 10 home runs to Pittsburgh's four (three of which all came in one game). When the dust cleared, though, it was the Pirates who won the Series, 4 games to 3.
** September 30, 2000: Oakland Athletics 23, Texas Rangers 2. Needing a win to stay ahead of Seattle in the standings and stay on track for their first playoff berth since 1992, the Athletics pounded out 24 hits including 4 home runs, scoring 9 runs in the first inning, 5 in the fifth, and 8 in the seventh. Texas manager Johnny Oates said after the game, "Custer must have felt like this."
** September 16, 1975: Pittsburgh Pirates 22, Chicago Cubs 0. Modern baseball's most lop-sided shutout. Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett had 7 of the Bucs' 24 hits (the Cubs could only muster 3 hits). In the post-game interview, announcer Jack Brickhouse told Cubs outfielder Jose Cardenal that he seemed distracted in the outfield during the late innings. Cardenal replied, "I was watching a spider crawl through the ivy. What else can you do in a game like that?"
** Unfortunately the Pirates have been on the opposite side as well. April 22, 2010 they suffer their worst defeat in the 124 years of the club,[[http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/pirates/pirates-20-0-loss-is-worst-in-franchises-124-years-243619/ losing to the Milwaukee Brewers 20-0.]] The defeat was so bad that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed the image of the scoreboard on the front page, devoting an article to discussing where the franchise went wrong. Relief pitcher Brenden Donelly was quoted as saying, "We should all be embarrassed to have Major League Baseball uniforms on our back today. It was an atrocity. We set a record. We should all be embarrassed about it. That's how I feel."

!!Hockey
* Bulgarian Women's Ice Hockey Team in 2010 Winter Olympics Qualifier. Losing to Slovakia with 0-82, losing to Italy with 0-41, losing to Latvia with 0-39, and losing to Crotia with 1-30.
** Keep in mind a hockey game is 60 minutes long and each goal only counts for one point: the Slovakians were scoring, on average, once every 43 seconds.
** Then Canada come and curb stomped Slovakia in the actual Olympic tournament with 18-0.
** Speaking of Canadian curb stomps, the Canada-Russia game on the men's side of the same Olympics has to be mentioned. Many of the best NHL players play for either team, so everyone naturally assumed this would be a close affair. What actually happened was, as some forum-goers put it, Team Canada [[Manga/DragonBall going Super Saiyan]] and utterly dominating the Russians 7-3. While the score doesn't seem that one-sided, keep in mind that the score at one point was '''6-1'''.
** China also got on the wrong side of this trope, ending 12-1 against America.
* NationalHockeyLeague:
** 2011-12. Calgary Flames 0, Boston Bruins 9.
** On January 23, 1944, the Detroit Red Wings delivered one to the New York Rangers, a 15-0 blowout, which remains the largest margin of victory by one NHL team to this day.
* Thai folklore contains an example of a possible real-life curbstomp battle. From [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_thai# Nai_Khanom_Tom The Other Wiki]]:
-->At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1763, the invading Burmese troops rounded up a group of Thai residents and took them as prisoners. Among them were a large number of Thai kickboxers, who were taken by the Burmese to the city of Ungwa.
-->In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the king of the Burmese, Hsinbyushin (known in Thai as "King Mangra"), decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics. The festivities included many forms of entertainment, such as the costume plays called likay, comedies and farces, and sword-fighting matches. At one point, King Hsinbyushin wanted to see how Muay Boran would compare to the Burmese art Lethwei[citation needed]. Nai Khanom Tom was selected to fight against the Burmese champion. The boxing ring was set up in front of the throne and Nai Khanom Tom did a traditional Wai Kru pre-fight dance, to pay his respects to his teachers and ancestor, as well as for all the spectators, dancing around his opponent, which amazed and perplexed all the Burmese people. When the fight began, he charged out, using punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, pummeling his opponent until he collapsed.
-->The referee however stated that the Burmese opponent was too distracted by the kick, and the knockout was invalid. The King then asked if Nai Khanom Tom would fight nine other Burmese champions to prove himself. He agreed and fought them all, one after the other with no rest periods in between. His last opponent was a great kickboxing teacher from Ya Kai City. Nai Khanom Tom mangled him by his kicks and no one else dared to challenge him any further.
-->King Mangra was so impressed that he remarked, "Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom. Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents. But his Lord was incompetent and lost the country to the enemy. If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen."
* 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship final. Sweden(5 championships) was confident that it would easily defeat Finland (1 championship). Finland proceeded to win 6-1, with only swedish goal made by half-finn...

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* Bulgarian Women's Ice Hockey Team in 2010 Winter Olympics Qualifier. Losing to Slovakia with 0-82, losing to Italy with 0-41, losing to Latvia with 0-39, and losing to Crotia with 1-30.
** Keep in mind a hockey game is 60 minutes long and each goal only counts for one point: the Slovakians were scoring, on average, once every 43 seconds.
** Then Canada come and curb stomped Slovakia in the actual Olympic tournament with 18-0.
** Speaking of Canadian curb stomps, the Canada-Russia game on the men's side of the same Olympics has to be mentioned. Many of the best NHL players play for either team, so everyone naturally assumed this would be a close affair. What actually happened was, as some forum-goers put it, Team Canada [[Manga/DragonBall going Super Saiyan]] and utterly dominating the Russians 7-3. While the score doesn't seem that one-sided, keep in mind that the score at one point was '''6-1'''.
** China also got on the wrong side of this trope, ending 12-1 against America.
* NationalHockeyLeague:
** 2011-12. Calgary Flames 0, Boston Bruins 9.
** On January 23, 1944, the Detroit Red Wings delivered one to the New York Rangers, a 15-0 blowout, which remains the largest margin of victory by one NHL team to this day.
* Thai folklore contains an example of a possible real-life curbstomp battle. From [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_thai# Nai_Khanom_Tom The Other Wiki]]:
-->At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1763, the invading Burmese troops rounded up a group of Thai residents and took them as prisoners. Among them were a large number of Thai kickboxers, who were taken by the Burmese to the city of Ungwa.
-->In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the king of the Burmese, Hsinbyushin (known in Thai as "King Mangra"), decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics. The festivities included many forms of entertainment, such as the costume plays called likay, comedies and farces, and sword-fighting matches. At one point, King Hsinbyushin wanted to see how Muay Boran would compare to the Burmese art Lethwei[citation needed]. Nai Khanom Tom was selected to fight against the Burmese champion. The boxing ring was set up in front of the throne and Nai Khanom Tom did a traditional Wai Kru pre-fight dance, to pay his respects to his teachers and ancestor, as well as for all the spectators, dancing around his opponent, which amazed and perplexed all the Burmese people. When the fight began, he charged out, using punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, pummeling his opponent until he collapsed.
-->The referee however stated that the Burmese opponent was too distracted by the kick, and the knockout was invalid. The King then asked if Nai Khanom Tom would fight nine other Burmese champions to prove himself. He agreed and fought them all, one after the other with no rest periods in between. His last opponent was a great kickboxing teacher from Ya Kai City. Nai Khanom Tom mangled him by his kicks and no one else dared to challenge him any further.
-->King Mangra was so impressed that he remarked, "Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom. Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents. But his Lord was incompetent and lost the country to the enemy. If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen."

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* Super Bowl XIX was expected to be an epic struggle between two great teams: the 1984 Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers. The first quarter proceeded as everyone had expected; that it would be a fantastically exciting battle between the top two offenses - between Dan Marino and Joe Montana. Then they played another three quarters... The Dolphins went scoreless after halftime and the 49ers ended up winning 38-16.
** Another notable one involving Marino was his final pro game, a 2000 playoff game where the Jacksonville Jaguars clownstomped his Dolphins 62-7.
** The 49ers had a tendency to do this a lot. They absolutely shitstomped the Denver Broncos, 55-10, in Super Bowl XXIV, and they creamed San Diego 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.
** The Dallas Cowboys' 52-17 win over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII was not as close as the score makes it appear.
** The Buffalo Bills demolished the Raiders 51-3 in the AFC Championship game in January of 1991.
** Quintessential NFL curb-stomp: The Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 championship game. End of discussion.
** December 6th, 2010, the New York Jets faced the New England Patriots. In previous weeks it seemed like it was going to be a difficult game for the Patriots, with both teams coming in at 9-2. However...when it came down to it, the Patriots won 45 to the Jet's...3.
** The aftermath of the above was even weirder -- the Patriots went into Chicago during the first big snowstorm of the season in the upper Midwest and delivered a full-service beatdown to the 9-3 Bears, blanking them at the half 33-0 for a final score of 36-7. Meanwhile, Jets coach Rex Ryan was openly mocked in the New York papers and they lost the next game to the mediocre Miami Dolphins in a 10-6 snoozer. (In soccer terms, that's sort of equivalent to grinding out a 2-2 tie and losing on a penalty kick.) Some Pats fans noted that there might be a touch of irony that a previous generation's Pats lost Super Bowl XX to the 1985 Bears in a curbstomp almost as humiliating as the current team had delivered to the Jets the previous week.
** It's even stranger when you remember that that's one of New England's ''smaller'' curb stomps. Ever since their undefeated 2007 regular season, the Patriots have usually had at least one game like this per season. This includes the 2007 season's 52-7 win over the Washington Redskins, 56-10 win over the Buffalo Bills, the 2008 season's 41-7 win over the Denver Broncos, 47-7 win over the Arizona Cardinals, and the 2009 season's ridiculous 59-0 win over the Tennessee Titans.
** Not to mention a repeat curbstomp of the Jets in the 2012 Thanksgiving evening game, winning 49-14. They racked up 35 points in the 2nd quarter alone, including a mind-boggling 21 points in less than a minute (aided by a number of Jets bloopers, including Sanchez's infamous "Butt Fumble").
* The USA 2008 Olympic Basketball team curb stomped most of the planet at the Beijing Olympics. Named the Redeem Team as a play on the 1992 team's nickname of The Dream Team and as a indicator of how the team had struggled for a decade, they beat China by 31 points, Angola by 21 points, Greece by 23 points, reigning World Champion Spain by 37, then beat Germany '''by 49 points''' and easily made it to the knockout round. Once there, they beat Australia by 31 points in the first round, Argentina (who was the favorite coming into the Olympics) by 20 in the second round, then faced a rematch with Spain in the finals. Even though it was the only game the USA played that was remotely close, they still won the Gold Medal by a score of 118 to 107.
** While we're at it, the original 1992 Dream Team, the first Olympic team that NBA players were allowed to participate on, contained ten hall-of-famers and is pretty much the greatest team of all time. In any sport. Period. It utterly humiliated any and all of the outclassed teams it came into contact with, from the opener against Angola (won by 68) to the Gold Medal game against Croatia (won by 32), with coach Chuck Daly never feeling he had to call a time out. Likewise, the 1996 was only slightly less dominant, winning each of its games by an average of 31.8 points. It wasn't until the 2000 team (which won gold, but only after several close calls) and the 2004 team (known as the "nightmare team", losing to Puerto Rico, Lithuania, and Argentina before beating Lithuania in the rematch for the bronze) that it ever seemed like the rest of the world wasn't going to be forever curb-stomped on the court.
** Come 2012, the United States did it again. They won their group undefeated with a point differential of +191 and won the gold medal with only two close wins throughout the entire tournament: an unusual five-point victory over Lithuania and a seven-point win over perennial contender Spain in the finals. And let's not even get started on the US women's team, who won their fifth consecutive (seventh overall) gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
* This high school girl's basketball game had a final score of [[http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/108-3-girls-basketball-rout-raises-questions?urn=highschool-311327 108-3.]]
* HorseRacing legend Film/{{Secretariat}}'s ''thirty-one-length'' victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, which won him the Triple Crown. He set a record for a mile-and-a-half on dirt that is not only still standing but that has not even been approached; then he proceeded to set a track record for the mile-and-five-eighths ''while coasting out from under the wire''.
* At Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics managed to wrap-up the series and win their 17th NBA title by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92. The 39 Point margin is the largest margin of victory of a series-winning game in the history of the NBA finals.

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* Some notable curb stomps in Major League Baseball:
** August 22, 2007: Texas Rangers 30, Baltimore Orioles 3. Texas scored all of their runs after the Orioles had already jumped out to a 3-0 lead. And the game was ''in Baltimore'' too. Texas became the first major league baseball team to score 30 runs in a game in 110 years.
** May 18, 1912: Philadelphia Athletics 24, Detroit Tigers 2. In protest over a suspension handed down by American League President Ban Johnson against star player Ty Cobb, the rest of Cobb's Tigers teammates went on strike. The League threatened Detroit's owner with a $5000-per-game fine if he didn't field a team, so he ordered manager Hughie Jennings to find some replacement players. Jennings cobbled together a lineup of sandlot amateurs from the local neighborhoods and threw them out on the field against the Athletics, with predictable results. Cobb persuaded his teammates to end their strike the next day.
** October 2, 1936: In game 2 of the World Series, the New York Yankees bounced back from a 6-1 loss to the New York Giants in game 1 by shellacking the Giants 18-4 in game 2, which is still the most lopsided game in World Series history. There wasn't much doubt who was going to win the Series after that.
** Subverted in the 1960 World Series. The Yankees won three games by double-digit margins (16-3, 10-0, and 12-0), they outscored the Pirates 55–27, outhit them 91–60, posted a .338 batting average to Pittsburgh's .256, and hit 10 home runs to Pittsburgh's four (three of which all came in one game). When the dust cleared, though, it was the Pirates who won the Series, 4 games to 3.
** September 30, 2000: Oakland Athletics 23, Texas Rangers 2. Needing a win to stay ahead of Seattle in the standings and stay on track for their first playoff berth since 1992, the Athletics pounded out 24 hits including 4 home runs, scoring 9 runs in the first inning, 5 in the fifth, and 8 in the seventh. Texas manager Johnny Oates said after the game, "Custer must have felt like this."
** September 16, 1975: Pittsburgh Pirates 22, Chicago Cubs 0. Modern baseball's most lop-sided shutout. Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett had 7 of the Bucs' 24 hits (the Cubs could only muster 3 hits). In the post-game interview, announcer Jack Brickhouse told Cubs outfielder Jose Cardenal that he seemed distracted in the outfield during the late innings. Cardenal replied, "I was watching a spider crawl through the ivy. What else can you do in a game like that?"
** Unfortunately the Pirates have been on the opposite side as well. April 22, 2010 they suffer their worst defeat in the 124 years of the club,[[http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/pirates/pirates-20-0-loss-is-worst-in-franchises-124-years-243619/ losing to the Milwaukee Brewers 20-0.]] The defeat was so bad that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed the image of the scoreboard on the front page, devoting an article to discussing where the franchise went wrong. Relief pitcher Brenden Donelly was quoted as saying, "We should all be embarrassed to have Major League Baseball uniforms on our back today. It was an atrocity. We set a record. We should all be embarrassed about it. That's how I feel."

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* The [[ArabIsraeliConflict Six Day War]] was a Curb Stomp ''War''. During the tense buildup to the war, the Syrians and Egyptians were spouting rhetoric like "We will drive them into the sea," and (at one particularly tense moment) "[[TemptingFate This time next week, we will be having lunch in Tel Aviv]]." The Israelis launched a dawn sneak attack on the Arab air forces while their pilots were all at breakfast, virtually obliterating them. Without air support, the Arabs stood no chance against the Israeli ground strike, and surrendered within [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin six days]].
** Technically, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Sudan were also involved, but of these really only the Jordanians had troops in significant numbers (after all, they ''held'' the West Bank, considering it an integral part of their territory and its residents Jordanian citizens), and ''they'' were dragged into the Syro-Egyptian assault kicking and screaming (having the most to lose from failure, and having an undeclared peace with Israel since almost the beginning). The other Arab states sent "moral support" and maybe a small unit or two. Casualties were 983 killed on the Israeli side and roughly 11,000 on the Arab side.

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*** Essentially, the small force fought back so aggressively, with destroyers closing to point-blank range to launch torpedos and try to cause ''some'' damage to the enemy ships with their guns, and fighters and bombers harassing the ship's gunners with fragmentation bombs and strafing runs that the Japanese assumed that they were merely delaying Kurita's force while reinforcements rushed to the scene. In reality, this was merely a case of the task force commanders finding themselves backed into a wall.
**** The vision of huge battleships and cruisers charging down on little escort carriers and destroyers is so compelling that most people conveniently forget that Taffy 3 was supported by Taffies 1 and 2 and the three forces together wielded nearly twice as much total airpower as the entire U.S fleet had at the battle of Midway. Moreover, Kurita's force had been under nearly continuous air and submarine attacks for almost 48 hours and the constant U.S. air attacks made accurate gunnery nearly impossible. While all honor is due the brave men of Taffy 3 in reality it was Kurita who was outgunned, as the the results of the battle showed.

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*** Essentially, the small force fought back so aggressively, with destroyers closing to point-blank range to launch torpedos and try to cause ''some'' damage to the enemy ships with their guns, and fighters and bombers harassing the ship's gunners with fragmentation bombs and strafing runs that the Japanese assumed that they were merely delaying Center Force while reinforcements rushed to the scene. In reality, this was merely a case of the task force commanders finding themselves backed into a wall.
**** The vision of huge battleships and cruisers charging down on little escort carriers and destroyers is so compelling that most people conveniently forget that Taffy 3 was supported by Taffies 1 and 2 and the three forces together wielded nearly twice as much total airpower as the entire U.S fleet had at the battle of Midway. Moreover, Center Force had been under nearly continuous air and submarine attacks for almost 48 hours and the constant U.S. air attacks made accurate gunnery nearly impossible. While all honor is due the brave men of Taffy 3 in reality it was Center Force that was outgunned, as the the results of the battle showed.

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They were mostly carrying bombs used for surface bombing, which were useless or worse against heavy ships like the japanese fleet there.

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