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Post by El Pinguino on Apr 6, 2018 18:14:06 GMT
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Post by El Pinguino on Apr 6, 2018 21:03:48 GMT
for the record, I think Canelo clearly lost that first fight.
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Post by Blunashun on Apr 11, 2018 16:47:10 GMT
I gave up on boxing maybe 20 years ago. Grew up on free fights on CBS. Saw some absolute classics. Fighters like Lupe Pintor, Danny Little Red Lopez, Salvador Sanchez, Carlos Zarate, Azumah Nelson, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Ernie Shavers, Aaron Pryor, Sean O'Grady, Boom-Boom Mancini, Alexis Arguello, etc. Those guys were warriors. Championship fights went 15 rounds. I saw fighters who were bloody messes & they kept going. Of course we later saw the damage done to those guys & that took a lot of pleasure out of the fight game. They all sounded drunk. The pay-per view era had some great fighters & fights early on. Especially in the middle-type weights. Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Hagler, Barkley, Benitez, Palomino, etc. Now their main purpose seems to be to avoid getting hurt (for the most part), & the scoring is more questionable than ever. Evander Holyfield might have been the last great warrior in the heavyweight ranks. That guy took a licking & kept on ticking. I gave him NO chance against Mike Tyson. He bullied Tyson & made Mike go off. Touche! I can't name ANY champion today. Used to subscribe to Ring Magazine too. I knew EVERY champion. |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 19, 2018 10:35:43 GMT
I gave up on boxing maybe 20 years ago. Grew up on free fights on CBS. Saw some absolute classics. Fighters like Lupe Pintor, Danny Little Red Lopez, Salvador Sanchez, Carlos Zarate, Azumah Nelson, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Ernie Shavers, Aaron Pryor, Sean O'Grady, Boom-Boom Mancini, Alexis Arguello, etc. Those guys were warriors. Championship fights went 15 rounds. I saw fighters who were bloody messes & they kept going. Of course we later saw the damage done to those guys & that took a lot of pleasure out of the fight game. They all sounded drunk. The pay-per view era had some great fighters & fights early on. Especially in the middle-type weights. Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Hagler, Barkley, Benitez, Palomino, etc. Now their main purpose seems to be to avoid getting hurt (for the most part), & the scoring is more questionable than ever. Evander Holyfield might have been the last great warrior in the heavyweight ranks. That guy took a licking & kept on ticking. I gave him NO chance against Mike Tyson. He bullied Tyson & made Mike go off. Touche! I can't name ANY champion today. Used to subscribe to Ring Magazine too. I knew EVERY champion. Don King and Jose Sulaiman and some others like Bob Lee who took it to another level, ruined boxing as these two tagged teamed usurping fees from promoters to the pugilist and the commission does nothing to stop it. All of that crap really got started in the late 70's continued in the 80's when the IBF was formed further eroding the WBA. Then come to find out that the head of IBF Bob Lee, was extorting money out of the prize fighters and out right bribery and favors for title shots, so by the early 90's forget about it as the WBA is a shadow of itself a watered down version of what it used to be. Ken Norton Ali I remember watching that fight on closed-circuit TV. Now, there is a term you don't hear anymore...! |
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