He holds and when he loses, he loses funny, like..........Primo Carnera or Joey Gamache or that Brown fella from Jamaica. We don't follow him except quietly in the threads when he is fighting. We will descend the moment he next loses. With smilies and quotes.
Yeah a little joke was made about how terrible the division is and how boring its best fighter is involving a long since shot, 50 year old who was last relevant nearly a quarter century ago winding up with a shot at the best heavyweight who still engages in a terrible, boring, negative bout, stopping him late rather than simply getting rid of the hopeless foe right away You saw that, turned red and started it in with the same crap you've spewing forth for a decade
Get real. Lots of fighters bore you. But this bad penny seems to fuck you right off. Wonder why...........
Of course, we have been here before. http://observer.theguardian.com/sport/story/0,6903,399814,00.html Kevin Mitchell used to be so good at this. Reaction in America was a lot kinder than it might have been a few fights ago. The fight writers have finally got the message about Lewis and, while they are as bloodthirsty as their readers, they know the champion is the consummate winner. 'Lewis fought a masterful fight,' said the Boston Globe's hard-to-please Ron Borges (who still dines out on picking Holyfield over Tyson). Wallace Matthews of the New York Post , wrote, 'Lewis's main drawback, his extreme caution, was still evident, but it is easy to call upon a fighter to take more chances when it's his health on the line, not yours.' Wally is still getting over dissing Lennox before he was robbed against Holyfield in Wally's home town. But he got it right. George Kimball, writing in the Boston Herald , observed that before the fight, Lewis's manager, Frank Maloney, reckoned a points win for his man would again bring down the wrath of the American boxing press. George reckoned that was nonsense. 'Whether it was meant to serve as a motivational tool for Lewis or to perpetuate a self-serving us-against-them mentality back in Old Blighty, the myth that US boxing scribes have been deficient in expressing their admiration for the champion for the most part is without foundation.' Up to a point, George. Lewis has really struggled to win over the critics in America - and not all of the criticism has been unjustified. Now that he has cleaned up the division, he is getting due credit. Tim Smith of the New York Daily News saw it this way: 'Besides administering a royal beating over 12 rounds and taking a unanimous decision, Lewis showed what he will be able to do for as long as he wants to rule the heavyweight division and that is use his superior jab and punishing right hand.' Now that's just fine. A sound analysis. However, you can bet all the money to which you have access that if there were an American heavyweight capable of getting around that Lewis jab, soaking up the right and coming back with some of his own stuff he would carry into the ring the universal support of his compatriots. And how deliciously ironic it is that the only fighter remotely able to do that is Mike Tyson, the American fight writers' Public Enemy No1. So far down the road of anarchy has Iron Mike travelled in this final stage of his eventful career that he is generally deemed to be beyond redemption. He's an animal. But he's their animal.
It's cultural warfare. The Yanks need Klitschko to lose. For a guy that they bumped to one side, allowing DaVarryl Williamson to fight Byrd for the title {a few short months after Wlad had beaten Williamson} to have negotiated the Sam Peter fight and now.....years after their snidey racist comments {Yanks really are thick as fuck}...............to find him bearing down on THEIR Joe Louis.......it must be hard to tolerate.Ju Just call him Wladdy Hoffa.....they thought they were shut of him. This Jennings boy must feel like JJ Jeffries did. Working his blamed head off on account of this fucking cracker. I think Wlad is taking a real chance here.....going back to the USofA, the scene of the crime. Its cultural warfare. They will try to get him again. And of course, the scene is set for their big Alabama Athlete....I wonder will they put their bottom dollar on him. It is going to be exciting.
Who here really wants to dispute that we are now entering the first bout of what promises to be a very very intriguing- and the longer it goes on- worrying, period of American boxing history ?? Where are you sirs!!!! ????
Your records, your position as the Global Superpower..........its all slip slipping away. Bep Van Klavern, come fude me.
John L Sullivan- champ for 7 years , 4 title defences. Vitali Klitschko- champ for 5 years, 9 title defences. WORST ERA EVER.
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In fact I think Wlad has made 22 successful defences already, just not consecutively. Boring. Holding. Look at him holding. He's holding. Holding the fucking title, more like it.
Correct, you do get these things started!! You admitted it!!! Injects the HW Champ into a Ruddock thread because the guy bores him so much that his name just keeps popping into his head. Makes sense.
Did you sirs ever believe, in your wildest nightmares, that when he signed to fight Peter in 2005, that you would be sat here eating great big fistfuls of your own shit, 10 years later :dunno: ::