Humour and serious boxing chat are happy bedfellows at fighbeat :hump:
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Nah he lost to a big athletic guy who could out hustle him with a fast pace.....and had pretty much no other redeeming attributes as a world class...
:bears: Interesting & surely unprecedented.
Another good one.
Ignoring the recognised robbery against Elmer Ray, Ezzard '25 loses!' Charles went on a longer unbeaten run in the 8 1/2 years after moving up to...
I don't think Duran was a great fighter in the 80s. He was an occasionally excellent one, but neither his style or his body allowed a seamless...
De Jesus was over 10 non-title rounds and very close. Benitez beat him fair and square, at 154. Both excellent, legit wins. Ray won and it's...
Charles by stoppage
Good ones. I'll try to think of one to add....
The scale of how much I disagree couldn't even be compressed into a forum post. So I'll just say I really, really stand by my last few previous ones.
I care neither about rugby or Scottish national teams. :mj: And along with every non-Welsh person on earth my attitude towards the Welsh is one of...
I'll explain it in 3 concise points A) Match making. The reluctance to face the best, preferring to molly coddle his smelly little '0', and...
I've Waited so long to hear you say that! :bears: I don't want this moment to ever end....:pray::partie:
I think to say he boxed is generous to Ray at the expense of the reputation of genuine stylistic boxers. Circling round and round and round a...
Lap it up, Ramonza, this is as close as a display of personal warmth we around these parts have ever seen from the Ice Man!:Thumbs:
Shut it smelly face, my Da' would batter your Da'!:Wah:
I don't think Cotto is comfortable with swarming, unpredictable pressure. And I don't think he has the 1 punch power which has proven the only key...
I agree but that isn't the MM we're discussing, is it.
Seriously, if you ever say that again I'll put you on ignore for a year. legit.
Realistically i think Calzaghe gets a late stoppage in a very good fight. Martinez would inevitably outbox Calzaghe early and there's a good...
If you're 105lb Im only interested if you're a hot woman.
Fuck Calzaghe. The way his career was managed shouldn't be rewarded with a single MM win, ever. He should be remembered as a bum and waste of...
I'm sure everyone knows, but a regular ring is 20x20, max, often 18x18. Ray demanded a 24x24 ring for this one. Then sprinted round every inch of it.
The fight's completely mythologised. People want a simple, neat narrative so history becomes Ray stupidly DECIDING to fight Duran on the inside in...
Read it again.
Great, then Ray is the king of stink. All hail the king of stink. In the match that involved exchanged punches with both men trying to hurt the...
About what? I scored the fucking thing exactly the same as 2 of the judges, the 3rd had it closer than me. The 'match' (you cant call that a...
I retract my initial analysis of why Duran quit. I don't think he was badly undertrained or weight drained, he just wanted to fight and Ray...
Fucking idiocy.
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