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[theflyest]

There’s a couple of Canelo STANS on here that are going to be irritated by this

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

"If you look at my fight with Errol Spence and how easy I defeated Errol Spence compared to all these guys (on my résumé) that they were calling bums - that should tell them something right there. The guys you were calling bums put up a better fight than your favorite fighter.””



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Terence Crawford: “The Guys You Were Calling Bums Put Up a Better Fight Than Your Favorite Fighter”

To some, the resume of Terence Crawford was completely laughable. A win over Julius Indongo allowed Crawford to become an undisputed champion at 140 pounds. A victory over Jeff Horn netted him a world title in his third division. Grabbing a win over Ricky Burns was also salient, as it began his...

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[TheNig]

It fuked with his punch resistance. I'm surprised he doesn't have any neurological damage

Didn't he just recently do an interview where he said he could tell the difference in his speech and stuff?

 

[TheNig]

"If you look at my fight with Errol Spence and how easy I defeated Errol Spence compared to all these guys (on my résumé) that they were calling bums - that should tell them something right there. The guys you were calling bums put up a better fight than your favorite fighter.””



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Terence Crawford: “The Guys You Were Calling Bums Put Up a Better Fight Than Your Favorite Fighter”

To some, the resume of Terence Crawford was completely laughable. A win over Julius Indongo allowed Crawford to become an undisputed champion at 140 pounds. A victory over Jeff Horn netted him a world title in his third division. Grabbing a win over Ricky Burns was also salient, as it began his...

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I understand the importance of resume. I really do. My problem with cats in here still talking resume is, why keep bringing it up like it was a contributing factor of how the fight turned out?

 

[Knicksman20]

Didn't he just recently do an interview where he said he could tell the difference in his speech and stuff?

Yeah you're right. I pretty sure someone posted something here & I watched it

 

[TheNig]

Yeah you're right. I pretty sure someone posted something here & I watched it

Have there been any other legendary fighters to walk away virtually unscathed like Mayweather?

 

[Adonis]

Have there been any other legendary fighters to walk away virtually unscathed like Mayweather?

Sugar Ray Leonard sounds good, Lennox Lewis too.

 

[Erratic415]

Have there been any other legendary fighters to walk away virtually unscathed like Mayweather?

The only one of the Fab Four who seemed to have visible damage was Tommy Hearns. His slurring was very noticeable. SRL, Duran, and Hagler all speak/spoke pretty clear.

George Foreman speaks clearly, even though his commentary often made you wonder WTF he was talking about. Larry Holmes seems sharp. He’s always had a bad lisp but I don’t think it’s a slur, and he also invested well in property in Easton so he’s done good outside the ring too.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Yup. Dana's definitely gonna make a move on boxing. This confirms it. He might try to buy all the talent and make a whole new company. Call it UBC or some shyt. It's a damn shame but boxing promoters did it to themselves. All they had to do was put on great fights. But they let feelings and politics get in the way of the bigger picture. The numbers prove that the people still love boxing when the right matchups are made. They stepped it up big time the last couple years but it might be too little too late. Showtime leaving is gonna have a major impact on the sport.

 

[reservoirdogs]

How would one go about getting the public interested in boxing?

The public IS interested in it already when there are good fights. I don’t see it as bad ad others here.
Ppl got already used to streaming I think besides the oldest generations and boxing gained a lot of new fans in the recent years who know how to use streaming.

Don’t see why Showtime, a traditional network getting out of the sport is the mark of the failure of the sport. It’s not about boxing, it’s about networks quitting sports, a general shift. Just like so far every time boxing will come out ok from it somehow.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Yup. Dana's definitely gonna make a move on boxing. This confirms it. He might try to buy all the talent and make a whole new company. Call it UBC or some shyt. It's a damn shame but boxing promoters did it to themselves. All they had to do was put on great fights. But they let feelings and politics get in the way of the bigger picture. The numbers prove that the people still love boxing when the right matchups are made. They stepped it up big time the last couple years but it might be too little too late. Showtime leaving is gonna have a major impact on the sport.

Dana White can fukk off, he built his own business largely based on shytting on boxing at every opportunity he gets and he contributed in a big part to kill off all the mysticism from “martial arts” and replaced it with a tough guy contest like ignorant culture with WWE theatrics.

All the other professional martial arts with smaller markets gravitate toward MMA now, some of them even copying its whole culture except boxing. Somehow their talent pool is still as shallow as a puddle though.

I don’t need him anywhere close to boxing, he’d just try to integrate it into his own sport,no thanks.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Dana White can fukk off, he built his own business largely based on shytting on boxing at every opportunity he gets and he contributed in a big part to kill off all the mysticism from “martial arts” and replaced it with a tough guy contest like ignorant culture with WWE theatrics.

All the other professional martial arts with smaller markets gravitate toward MMA now, some of them even copying its whole culture except boxing. Somehow their talent pool is still as shallow as a puddle though.

I don’t need him anywhere close to boxing, he’d just try to integrate it into his own sport,no thanks.

Great points. You’re absolutely right, he’s butchered martial arts, it’s quasi theatrical wrestling mixed with barbarism.

Real boxing pundits and aficionados mostly wince and yell ‘stop the fight ref’ when they see it deteriorating beyond a certain point. That ‘threshold’ window has been disintegrated in the mma area, they cheer and call for more, right at the exact moment it should be the opposite.

In my humble opinion, this is regressive, culturally, but also innately. We move backwards as a species with that stuff.

We can do better than cheer on senseless beatings of already broken men on the floor.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

The only one of the Fab Four who seemed to have visible damage was Tommy Hearns. His slurring was very noticeable. SRL, Duran, and Hagler all speak/spoke pretty clear.

George Foreman speaks clearly, even though his commentary often made you wonder WTF he was talking about. Larry Holmes seems sharp. He’s always had a bad lisp but I don’t think it’s a slur, and he also invested well in property in Easton so he’s done good outside the ring too.

Good summation, although I personally thought Marvin was a little staggered and laboured with his articulation.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Usually I would say why but ill use big picture thinking

Showtime is the last of the old guard regarding boxing on american television...it would be a gotdamn shame

HBO was the mainstream boxing..big fight everything but Showtime was the channel that had the real nikka fights and countless of forgotten classics

both of them gone from the boxing biz creates a huge hole to fill

for me at least i have no aversion to apps or anything of that nature but not all boxing needs to be on apps

To build a superstar you need TV. No doubt about it. That's why Inoue is big in Japan and AJ was in the UK.

 

[UpAndComing]

Yup. Dana's definitely gonna make a move on boxing. This confirms it. He might try to buy all the talent and make a whole new company. Call it UBC or some shyt. It's a damn shame but boxing promoters did it to themselves. All they had to do was put on great fights. But they let feelings and politics get in the way of the bigger picture. The numbers prove that the people still love boxing when the right matchups are made. They stepped it up big time the last couple years but it might be too little too late. Showtime leaving is gonna have a major impact on the sport.

I'm indifferent to Dana White, but he would do HORRIBLE as an owner or Boxing promoter. Boxing is an entirely different animal than MMA. Boxing is a more intimate, 1 on 1 type of product that would suffer if it is promoted like the WWE