Is this the GOLDEN AGE for British/European Prizefighting???...

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ridiculous.

 

What we call boxing did. :dunno:

 

for an old black man, you're very racist. :nono: your country happens to be the developed country with the largest population. whoop-de-do, well done.

 

boxing pre-dates britain, but the marquess of queensbury rules are of course british. make of that what you will. the british used to have the most bloodthirsty, invasive empire in the world, which means a lot of global institutions existing today were originally influenced by britain. britain invented marquess of queensbury-boxing, america invented mass obesity: neither is a point of particular pride.

 

btw muzse im still waiting for you to provide a link to the british news story which used racist language/imagery about obama in the run-up to the election, portraying him as an ape...

 

Thats the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...

MTF

 

Boxing as we know it, as it exists right now in it's present form, comes from England.

Of course, one on one fighting in whatever form goes back to the dawn of time, the caveman era, but modern boxing is from England.

 

Fisticuffs does. If you're talking about two guys throwing hands in front of a crowd then that's been around since forever.

The sport that we call Boxing originated in England. I'm not sure why you think that shouldn't be a point of pride or much less compare it to mass obesity.:dunno:

 

The Japanese commercial?..

 

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Cat Stevens in your avatar, A young Paul Mcartney to the right of your signature,..and, I think it must be his band, 'the wings'..

 

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ha...I've heard the Cat Stevens one before actually. Cat Stevens wishes....

I presume you probably know, but actually it's Al Pacino in the avatar and the Manic street preachers circa '94 in the signature.
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i do wonder about the avatar; it looks like serpico holding up a picture of michael corleone to compare the likeness. where's it from?

 

yeah it's a publicity shot for the Godfather taken while Al was filming Serpico.

 

It's always fun to get under the Euro cans skin.

Job well done.

HOWEVER...

You must admit it's true...damn near every fighter talks about coming here to "prove" himself.

 

ok, so you made a mistake on the obama thing. i'll take that as a tacit admission of ignorance and apology.

 

If this gets you through the day and allows you to sleep, have at it.

 

yes it's completely true. british boxing is a travesty. unschooled jokes like froch, witter, and hamed, inveterate cowards like slappy and the pre-zoo hatton, fantasist media coverage, ... and germany's even worse. at least we make our own bums; germany has to steal from its impoverished eastern neighbours.

 

You just can´t get them. They´d rather eat out of a Yerevan gully than in a british gourmet restaurant.

 

yeah, "Arbeit macht frei" for the klits, abraham, and their Untermensch brethren. they just have to make sure to always carry their Papiere with them...

 

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Speaking of which, any chance of shumenov getting a shot at erdei El Terrible? I would have though not a chance but those Kazakhs must have deep pockets

 

Not if Universum can circumvent it. I also heard Cleverly is supposed to fight a WBO eliminator against Griffin. At some point Erdei will get his and then he´ll retire and we´ll never see his sorry ass again.