Shannon Briggs looking EXTREMELY impressive in a public workout

Pretty much.

Any Vitali-Adamek negotiations deserved more attention than this mismatch.

 

Fuck you too.:flip:

 

Oh really? Show me your prediction? Another of the side-line mob. Says nothing, hopes for a certain result and when it doesn't pan out says the fight should not have happened.

If the press want to cover Spinks-Tyson, Louis-Galento and Holyfield-Bean then they can cover Briggs-Vitali.

 

Is this what they mean by getting your Irish up?

 

No, that would be more like......"Another Couple of 9/11's Should Bring You Around To My Point Of View"

That would be getting one's Irish up.

 

LOL. Yeah, either I was so nervous for a Vitali win that I dared not predict it, or this fight was about the least interesting sporting event there was yesterday.

No, I didn't make a prediction, but does this count?

 

BTW, Irish, looking back on that "Vitali Klitschko-Tomasz Adamek in March at MSG?", I was reminded of this beautiful nugget:

 

He was looking past him. He looked past him again when he announced before the fight that he had no intention of retiring. I then suggested that if he thought that little of Briggs that he maybe would be better off not fighting him. I bet Briggs feels that way too now, just for different reasons.

I have been as critical as Vitali's outlook as anyone, if not more so. I also happen to think that the fights should be covered in a semi-cogent fashion, especially where access to decent bouts is made relatively easy and relatively cheap, if not free altogether.

When you consider the now complete flux that the "Super Six" finds itself in, and some of the nonsense that has gone on inside that tournament, I find it loathsome to suggest that what guys like Vitali are up to is now suddenly not newsworthy.

Anybody who comes on here and suggests, in all earnest, that a heavyweight title fight between two men capable of taking and delivering a punch should not be covered.....needs fucking off right now.

 

Maxboxing, Secondsout, and others have links up to the AP story of this fight...that's about as much "coverage" as that fight deserved.

Shannon Briggs shouldn't have been in the ring with Vitali.

If anything, that should've been story.

 

A link. To an AP story. :laugh11: It's almost funny. ::

He had as much business being in the ring with him as guys like Haye, Valuev, Povetkin and Kevin Johnson, who pussied out to one degree or another, either by not taking the fight, or by taking it and running away as soon as it started.

Maybe that's the story you should be working on. How all these hardy bucks don't want any part of this guy.

Once again, how anyone finds the time and space to deride Klitschko, against a backdrop of nothingness from the Super Six....is perplexing.

 

Yes, let's compare Spinks/Tyson to Vitali/Briggs. ::

Spinks, Galento and Bean all dominate a 2010 Shannon Briggs. It's absolutely disgraceful that Klitschko even considered fighting him. I hope Shannon is ok.

 

No, he had no business in the ring with him.

I used to defend fighters the way you do the Klitschko's... then I turned 16. Klitschko/Briggs was a farce. That someone could be seriously hurt is even worse.

 

BTW, talking about some of the coverage of this fight, there was this rather sad (upon reflection) quote from Briggs in a Michael Woods story for ESPN.

 

Yeah. It's a bad comparison. Briggs was actually trying to win and actually wanted the fight.

 

And what was Spinks? Oh yes, that's right. He was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. How could I forget?

 

Did anybody score the fight for Briggs?

 

I was afraid to make a prediction. I really thought Shannon might knock him out! Vitali was over-looking him, man!

 

Defend Klitschko? I have posited not once but twice that if he thought so little of Briggs that he should have let it slide.

The farce stems from the belief in the USA and elsewhere that a 6'4" steroid infused mass with a reputation for decent power and a decent chin could in fact give them what they wanted. That is the beginning, middle and end of the farce.

I merely asked that a 12 round title fight receive some copy, or at least shed some light on the medical condition of the losing party.

The farce with the fight proper started around round 8, where the farcical officiating and the farcical notions of Briggs corner that this "bitch could be backed up" allowed an otherwise healthy and competent athlete to take an unnecessary beating.

 

Yes, there was this major belief in the States that Briggs was going to pull it off. :: Fuck off man.

Of course you aren't defending Klitschko. You would never do that.

 

Why didn't Briggs follow his corner's instructions?

 

Frivolity.

I did not think Briggs could win, except in a manner that was so narrowly defined as to be almost impossible to fulfill.

My "reservations" tended to Vitali taking a fight which he thought so easily won as to look ahead to different targets. For openers, it invites error. Secondly, it is a gamesmanship that Klitschko would do well to avoid. It's so very Anglo-American.

If he thinks that little of Briggs then why fight him? The answer lies of course in the absence of other contenders who were prepared to take the same risks as Briggs.

 

And possibly the fact that Klitschko has feasted on top-20ish fighters for about 15 years now.

 

:Giggle: ::

He wasn't able to.

When he was able to get close, his kidney shots in the clinches had a noted effect. He did hurt Vitali with some of those shots.

But he was paying a price for them and once that price had added up, it was time to pull the plug.

Do not underestimate the epic ignorance of Briggs corner, the erstwhile "Brave Corner", who, feeding off the old lie that Klitschko will fall apart/quit/want out of there, sent that man out to get hurt in pursuance of an fight plan that was writ in water by the 8th round.

 

I think i could be a brave cornerman.

 

Yes. Despite being active as a pro for 14 years.

Peter/Gomez/Arreola/Johnson/ all top 10. 2 of them were undefeated Americans, one of them, Peter, had 1 defeat. Gomez was a soft touch. Sosnowski was top 15.

Briggs? Probably top 20'sh.

Haye/Povetkin/Valuev....all top 10. None of them want the fight yet.

 

:crafty::stir: Briggs said in the post-fight intv that Vitli is superior to Lewis

 

If he was Benjamin Button maybe he'd have said the opposite.

 

Basically, Briggs was 2010's answer to Jim Jeffries. Drag a guy out, pump him up, marvel at the veins in his arms and suggest he could do a number on that meanie from the East.:::: Cops a beating? Hey...keep going boy, he 'bout to fall 'part, and denn some!

 

Point stands that a fight like Vitali/Briggs in 2010 should be against the law. That's really what it comes down to. A man, a brave man but a man nonetheless, is badly hurt today because of irresponsible actions by managers, promoters, commission folk and yes, Klitschko himself.

 

Yeah, except no one suggested that.