since we didn't actually start a board for it.
Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, Rumble in the Jungle
I loved it when the Ali biopic came out, ESPN Classic was running his old fights and Cosell shows non-stop.
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:35 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Ali is a great hero of mine. Currently love jermain Taylor, though I think he's due for a rude awakening from someone (though that someone SHOULD have been Winky Wright) and he is still VERY raw. All the fun stuff in this sport happens @ 165 and below, really. Heavyweights are all imperfect jokes. If some parent had the foresight to train his or her 6'4" 250 LB left tackle to fight he could clean up the division EASILY.
― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:44 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
If some parent had the foresight to train his or her 6'4" 250 LB left tackle to fight he could clean up the division EASILY.
But only if they had the foresight to provide said youngster with blazing hand speed. Boxing =/= American Football. Left tackles just don't do that much of interest with their upper bodies compared to boxers.
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
WAHT
― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
[he brushes his right thumb against the side of his nose and snorts a bit of blood out of his left nostril]
YAEH!
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:50 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
let's talk mma! check out crocop's TOTALLY SIKK ufc debut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUvyjE6o65A
― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:17 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
mma is ghey
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I am bismackual - I love boxing and MMA.
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:39 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I can't even give MMA a fair chance so long as they're using that stupid cage match setup and have pro wrasslin' production values.
Put 'em in a real ring, get some classy, intelligent announcers (wherefore the skinhead-grapplin' Emanuel Steward?), and maybe I'll watch one all the way through.
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:44 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah, the "Octagon" is kind of dumb and gimmicky (alhough I actually appreciate the fact that it's more difficult to trap your opponent in a corner) and certainly the commentators in UFC are garbage. PRIDE, the Japanese event is in a boxing ring, though, and does generally get a better quality of commentary. It also has bigger purses and consequently a deeper talent pool.
But that's all off-topic. I do kind of suspect that as long as Fedor Emilianenko is heavyweight champ over there and his brother Alexander refuses to fight him, maybe the smart thing for Alexander to do is get into the heavyweight boxing division. I haven't seen a whole hell of a lot of him, but what I did see of his hand skills looked like it had potential.
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Well, calling that low blow against Loscano in the twelfth was bullshit, but at that point the fight was pretty much over anyway. Harris earned it, but it was Loscano who made it exciting to watch.
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:53 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I take back all the Vern Schillinger jokes I've made about MMA - just saw Gina Carano beat the crap out of someone on Showtime. It was actually entertaining.
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Maybe you can tell them about this tattooed skinjob fighting Mosely.
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:01 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hands up who hates Ruiz
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:09 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Well DUH
― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:12 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
but seriously, why can't anybody dope out Ruiz's style and give him a proper pasting? I think Foreman in his prime could have done exactly that, Pinklon Thomas too probably, maybe even Holyfield - it's like the thing that's really plaguing the heavyweight division is that the fighters don't really think through their opponents. In this sense Ruiz is almost good for the game (even though he's not because he's so dull to watch) - he's like an infection against which the antibodies will have to grow stronger if the host is gonna live
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:40 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Caring about heavyweights in 2007 is a bit like caring about the rise of Communism in the Soviet Bloc in 2007.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:48 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
2 months pass...
R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZaiGJgbsw
re: heavyweights, i like james toney a whole lot. and samuel peter appears to have gotten a lot better since wlady dismantled him. i'm glad someone beat that 7 foot russian.
― cankles, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Toney's last fight was awful. Dude looked like he weighed 300 and couldn't move or punch.
Corrales-Castillo was the last great fight I saw. Barrera-Juarez I was a great surprise, but Corrales-Castillo was amazing.
― milo z, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Amazing comeback, RIP.
I didn't know about this thread or I wouldn't have revived the other one (The Joe Calzaghe/Rolling Boxing Thread)
― onimo, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6:25 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Castillo-Hatton could be a good one.
― onimo, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6:25 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
1 month passes...
who in NYC wants to go to Rumble by the River (free) next Thurs?
http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/Calendar/RUMBLE.htm
Those flyweights really pound the crap outta each other.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, June 15, 2007 12:40 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'd go if I lived there!
― J0hn D., Friday, June 15, 2007 12:50 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh god, Ricky "The Hugger" Hatton strikes again.
― milo z, Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not as much as kellerman et. al are overdoing it, but castillo did look slow and old...i'll still be waiting for hatton to fight a real figher.
― johnny crunch, Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:56 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
What was Kellerman on? Bug eyes, yelling into the mic, barely coherent.
― milo z, Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Finally a forum to air this gripe: 95% of the fights aired on ESPN Classic fall well short of classic status, and a lot of them weren't even worth watching the first time around. Am I right!? This confuses me. Maybe sticking to the canon of Classic bouts would be limiting, but I'd like it. A boxing fan never tires of the true classics.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not as much as kellerman et. al are overdoing it, but castillo did look slow and old...i'll still be waiting for hatton to fight a real figher.
wtf Castillo's not a real fighter?
Great body shot from Hatton to finish it but it was a messy four rounds tbh.
― onimo, Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
2 weeks pass...
Limond vs Khan: great fight. Khan did well to get up off his overhyped arse and beat Limond. Getting decked off a guy with a ~50% stoppage record might be a sign that Khan will get sparked out when he faces world class opposition. Why didn't the ref stop the fight after the Khan knockdown? He was given an 8 count and asked to raise his gloves and walk forward and he sank down to his knee again.
Skelton vs Sprott: If I never see either of these fighting again it'll be too soon. That people are even considering giving either of these a world title shot shows how woeful the heavyweight division is. Bruno at his peak would have stopped both of these in minutes.
Pryce v Anthony "Sugar Ray Clay Jones Junior" Small: Don't you love it when a guy with a stupid nickname enters the ring with a Scream mask on and gets holes punched in his 17-0 record? lol@spitting blood and counting stars while complaining about the stoppage. Ref was spot on.
― onimo, Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:42 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kind of looking forward to margarito v. paul williams tonight...
― johnny crunch, Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Skelton vs Sprott what a dire fight that was. Those 2 judges must've fallen asleep to have had Sprott even near skelton on the points. Sprott wasn't interested in fighting at all.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, July 14, 2007 8:05 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is it wrong that I always really enjoy Gatti getting tore up like a punching bag?
― johnny crunch, Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:02 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You've enjoyed it for the last time, he retired after the fight.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2007-07-15-2867980343_x.htm
― onimo, Sunday, July 15, 2007 4:54 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You really can't beat a couple of WRITERS pounding each other bloody in a "sparring exhibition" (ie, because they're 31 and 43 it can't be a sanctioned match) ... July 24 at Gleason's Gym, NYC:
http://www.jonathanames.com/blog/blogger.html
http://www.penguinblogs.ca/davidson/archives/00000162.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:42 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
2 years pass...
Don't know how much interest there is for boxing around here but there have been some awesome developments lately.
1. The supermiddleweight tourney sponsored by Showtime! Froch, Tyalor, Kessler, Ward, Direll(spelling?), and Abraham. A new tactic. Should bring the fireworks.
2. Pacquaio and Cotto. No idea who to pick here. Will be paying for it though.
3. Mayweather looming...
4. Amir Khan. Fluke?
― SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
one month passes...
three weeks pass...