Disagree. Its funny you are one of the anti-Vlad's but the Iranian kid just held behind the neck, pushed down, held the Cubans arm all the time,...
Japanese boxer turned it around big here, 12-5 down going into the last round then decked his man 5 times or so and the referee didn't do fuck...
He look almost biblical alright, Saint Angulo of Texas.
He's very young looking, he also fights like a young kid, all enthusiasm and bounce.
The Mongolian kid is worth watching
Reed, the fight was very close, one round or so, give or take. The impression that Ray was bossing it, winning it hands-down, fighting his own...
Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene He's very good, probably too good to win a medal.
Inside what? A ring?
The little Mongolian is a class act. I just hope he has a chin and turns pro.
Ah yes but its merely a matter of scale there.
Getting inside is one thing. Being a good infighter is a totally different thing. The infighter can fight as safely on the inside as the runner...
Feebles they are not totally different. The fitness and training regimens and basic tenets of the sport are still the same. Its the mentality and...
All of the above and then some more besides. Some guys can't fight on the inside, or fight far better on the outside than they do on the...
There was a little Thai fella who was throwing corkscrew uppercuts and wicked body shots, had his man down once and gave him a count too....
Musze, do you feel an Asiatic invasion is a likelihood?
Cosell was basically a high-brow, more reliable form of Bert Sugar. An emotive, instinctive, reactionary sort of guy prone to uttering...
Broad-faced heathens. Of course, football and basketball go from strent to strent, and so a wind blows in to fill the gap, and this is a foul...
I mean, look at Zelenoff. He's got the belt.
That's easy- you can set up your own Amateur boxing association, with your own rules. Once there is no element of explicit pay or remuneration,...
There is plenty of violent intent but the end product is defeated by the gloves.
yeah they look like the 14Oz adidas Sparrers that I own. I tried to hit a heavy bag once with those gloves and nearly ruined both wrists. Horrible...
......... but pro boxing is to blame too. They offer the mad signing-on fee's for "Olympic Superstars".
Byrd. Haye doesn't have the volume or the true one-hitter-quitter power needed to put manners on Byrd. Haye's right isn't any faster or harder...
Khan wasn't a good amateur, that's one way of interpreting that. Also, let's not confuse the issue of guys who eschew an amateur career in the...
I take my wife everywhere but she finds her way home. {cut to Tommy and Henry seen leaving the Air France terminal at Idlewild airport with...
Mike isn't wrong, per se. If you are a crap amateur, you can still be a great pro. If you are a great amateur, you've got every chance of being a...
Very few people do. Not since I started following boxing in 1985 have I ever been less confident in the people claiming to be major players in the...
That may be the correct answer. It surely wasn't clear though.:old:
"Seamus" :lol: Its just the Irish for "James". :dunno:
Fighters attract fans. On occasion they attract steve_dave, but generally, they attract fans. Not the managers. They attract law_suits.
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