Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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Knicksman20
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Watched both of these fights when they aired with my older brothers as a young dude
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Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
I never thought about this 'till now. But it's interesting that Oscar's name never comes up as "ATG At X Weight" convos the way people will specifically talk about say, Roy at 168 or Shane at Lightweight. Oscar at lighweight was wild problematic. Iirc correctly all his fights at LW were title fights, and he stopped everyone other than Molina.Watched both of these fights when they aired with my older brothers as a young dude
Also, he went from champ at 130 to champ at 147 in three years, getting belts and having multiple fights at every weight along the way. If someone was doing that now I'd probably say they're throwing themselves in the bushes making moves like that. And coming back to the Terry Norris convo the other day, was really about to go to 154 in 97/98, making it five divisions in 3-4 years
The same except the older brother part..esp paid attention to Tracy's fight. My dad was trained by his pops Floyd Patterson in the 70s...he knew both of them.Watched both of these fights when they aired with my older brothers as a young dude
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Yeah his resume at beginning was no joke. Early Oscar was with the shytsI never thought about this 'till now. But it's interesting that Oscar's name never comes up as "ATG At X Weight" convos the way people will specifically talk about say, Roy at 168 or Shane at Lightweight. Oscar at lighweight was wild problematic. Iirc correctly all his fights at LW were title fights, and he stopped everyone other than Molina.
Also, he went from champ at 130 to champ at 147 in three years, getting belts and having multiple fights at every weight along the way. If someone was doing that now I'd probably say they're throwing themselves in the bushes making moves like that. And coming back to the Terry Norris convo the other day, was really about to go to 154 in 97/98, making it five divisions in 3-4 years
Knicksman20
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I never thought about this 'till now. But it's interesting that Oscar's name never comes up as "ATG At X Weight" convos the way people will specifically talk about say, Roy at 168 or Shane at Lightweight. Oscar at lighweight was wild problematic. Iirc correctly all his fights at LW were title fights, and he stopped everyone other than Molina.
Also, he went from champ at 130 to champ at 147 in three years, getting belts and having multiple fights at every weight along the way. If someone was doing that now I'd probably say they're throwing themselves in the bushes making moves like that. And coming back to the Terry Norris convo the other day, was really about to go to 154 in 97/98, making it five divisions in 3-4 years
Oscar was definitely a bad man at LW. But what hurt him was not campaigning long enough there & at 140. I know we joke on him now but he really challenged himself back in the day in a way most fighters don't today. The older I've gotten the more I gave him a little bit of a pass for not running it back with Bazooka because he almost fought all the top guys with very few misses. And for the record, if Terry was healthy he would've whipped Oscar's ass lol
Knicksman20
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That's crazy bro! I had seen Patterson fight & liked him but that was the first time I ever saw Gatti. That fight was close & could've easily went to Patterson if I remember correctly
reservoirdogs
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The dosser thing was funny for a while but it’s tired now, should come up with something new, every joke has its expiration date if one uses them too much.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Aj and triple g just ripping uppercuts like that lmmfao
The axe murderer
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"I remember being in close with him and then he’s hit me with a left uppercut, ripped my nose right back and I thought, ‘b*stard.’ It was when my nose went. I was thinking, ‘He’s going to go to the body now, left hook to the body.’ But he hit me with the left uppercut again. I thought, ‘He’s got to go downstairs now’ and I put my arm down and he hit me with the left uppercut again. Proper rammed it up three times. "- Martin Murrayuppercut season
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Knicksman20
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He shouldn't truthfully. Tupac was reckless & was gonna put himself in those types of situations regardless