Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

Slept on this last night. Great that it went the whole 12, will check it out this week. Don't think Mayweather will ever make the Manny fight - knows he'll lose.

incidentally audley harrison may not get paid for boring everybody to death

http://www.badlefthook.com/2010/11/14/1814436/british-boxing-investigating-haye-harrison-could-take-audleys-1

Also in the news - Haye didn't throw a punch for two rounds because he had a bet on himself to floor Audrey in the third.

lol that's actually enough of a quality narrative to justify the crappy fight

rip paul williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZl3h37mEis&feature=player_embedded

genuinely brutal

i just finished the GQ profile on manny and it's kinda O_O

him laying out there with his eye wide like a zombie is fucked. some knockout.

why what'd he say

(xpost in re pacman)

damn, was about to write "nothing, he was lying there unconscious."

sounds like the profile got all of 5 minutes with manny so the profile is pretty overwritten, a stylized wikipedia article

but the descriptions of manny and his life are just kinda O_O

http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/201004/manny-pacquiao-boxer

(also when they mention the part about the massacre, do yourself a favor and don't wikipedia that if you don't want to be bummed out for the rest of the week)

reading that profile right now... fantastic stuff

You could consider many other elements— that he's a Philippine action-film star, or his weekly sitcom, Show Me the Manny, or that the birthday party he throws for himself and 3,000 of his dearest friends (including several of his former opponents, whose expenses he covers, as well as the country's president) every year is to the Philippines what the Super Bowl is to America, or that he spends thousands of dollars a day feeding anyone who comes to his door, or that he loves to gamble and plays billiards at a world class level—but none of that is required.

first profile should be writer :( pray for my internet addled brain

On the plane, I asked the Governor about Manny. "Girls squeal" in Pacquiao's presence, he remarked. "Like the sound of a pig being slaughtered!" But after a few minutes he changed the subject. "I have twelve tiger. When I home, I swim with them every day. But now I want to make liger, yes?" The product of a lion and a tiger. "So I bring lion in, and he do this, yes?" The Governor made a fucky-fucky motion with his right index finger and his closed left fist. "And he do, and he do. No liger. And so I make him do, and do some more. And then…acchhhhh!"

The Governor clasped his hands to his heart and rolled his eyes back in their orbits; his lion stud had literally died of a cardiac infarction while being made to copulate for the umpteenth time with one of his tigresses.

"No liger," the Governor said dejectedly.

show me the manny looks not so good. some very attractive women though.

absolutely great piece here

http://phdoctopus.com/2010/11/21/the-great-filipino-hope-a-brief-history-of-race-in-the-ring/

I think Manny knocks Floyd out -- if Shane can stagger him, Manny can lay him on his back -- but I'm a full-fledged Manny cult adherent

wow wow wow wow @ that GQ pacquiao piece, amazing

it's shite

imo, like.

I watched the Margarito fight this weekend, my first time watching Manny fight. Manny is amazing! Best technique I've ever seen, I think.

I'm halfway through the fight and it's like jeez, manny has some sort of turbo button in his glove that he pushes when he unleashes a flurry

would not be surprised that manny had the ability to slow time to halfspeed for everyone around him

If you’re a great athlete, but only 5’5” and 125 pounds, your options are pretty limited if you want to make money in sports. Boxing may be your best or even only route.

um

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Soccer's a great sport for guys with low centers of gravity, no?

Nimble attacking players or wing-players are often suited by a fast, low-centred running-style, but players down the core of the pitch or in defence above all must display vast physical stamina and strength to dominate their team's possession and disrupt the other team's. Tiny players can often outmuscled, so in addition to being small, you have got to be either very fast or very strong, preferably both. Many of the most celebrated 'geniuses' of soccer have been small, agile men with lightning feet (footwork is incredibly important in most physical sports), but on the whole, players tend to be quite physically-imposing.

Cricket is a fabulous sport for small men with low centres of gravity, especially ones with quick feet and sharp reflexes.

Do you get (m)any pint-sized NFL players? That sport seems more about the ability to memorise loads and loads of contingencies, be down for a scrap, be fit as hell and be fucking built.

apart from the quartermaster, nfl is about being the best at exercising

but players down the core of the pitch or in defence above all must display vast physical stamina and strength to dominate their team's possession and disrupt the other team's

they dont call it the 'biscan role'

the average for a champions league player would probably be under 6' and 180lbs.....so i dunno about 'quite physically-imposing' compared to say nfl players where the average is about 6'2", 240lbs iirc

anyway, a low /relative/ centre of gravity is useful in just about all sports right?

not swimming surely

'sports'

not ten pin bowling

high jumping

snooker neither

lol quartermaster makes nfl sound like an rpg

slower than rpg iirc

like in boxing a lot of power is generated from the thighs/lower body

turn-based xp

better costumes

in cricket, fast-bowlers derive almost all their power from their lower body, and batsmen generate powerful strokeplay by shifting their whole bodyweight into a shot

cricket fans, gtfo the boxing thread svp

cricket and boxing are incredibly similar tho, this is the hand of friendship u spurn :(

Do you get (m)any pint-sized NFL players? That sport seems more about the ability to memorise loads and loads of contingencies, be down for a scrap, be fit as hell and be fucking built.

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

There are positions where being short can be a real advantage, but those guys tend to be built really thick too - a running back is better off being on the short side than being too tall (imo), but you want him to have a thick butt and thighs. Defensive backs tend to be short and slighter of build, but that's because speed and fluidity of movement are prized - length/height are great if you can get it, but not at the expense of movement skills and footwork.

like in boxing a lot of power is generated from the thighs/lower body

― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

its all about the hips imo

xp that's very rude mr. aerosmith!

I said please!

can I just say again: footwork. footwork footwork footwork. the bedrock upon which cricket and boxing are founded (arguably more so than soccer, which is more about general movement, territorial whereabouts of the whole player, at least until you get to the top level, where a bit of nifty footwork comes in very handy)

defensive backs are the ones who have to intercept incoming runners who r jinking this way n that, and running backs are running with the ppl bursting forward to try and leap for the ball, right?

running backs are the 5'10, 220lb dudes who carry the ball

defensive backs are the nimble dudes who intercept passes/runners

balance in football is crucially under-rated, an i thing that 'touch' gotta come under footwork too, so imma disagree with you riht there you carzy bastid. it's not called 'footbox' is it?