For me pesonally anything below 126 pounds I don't care about. Those guys should go have a healthy meal and not punch each other in the heads for 12 rounds.
But watching these skinny 5 foot tall boxers go at it is like watching little kids fight...It's cute and you chuckle but how can you take them seriously...
Well for one I can take them more seriously than the fat Sam Peter who showed up for Eddie Chambers, and Sam Peter was a top 10 HW. If I can tolerate a Sam Peter fight I can tolerate the anorexic divisions.
Don't confuse me with you Gatti. No 105 pound person in the world is beating me unless they have a gun.
Makes sense I guess. I just find it disturbing watching them. They're so skinny and look so hungry. I feel bad watching...
I've never understood why the size of the fighter is a factor for so many fans. If you're gay, and you want your fighters big like you like your men, then I can understand. Otherwise, I don't see what the fuck the difference is, except that smaller fighters tend to hold less, throw more punches and have better technique. In fact, a more topical poll in my opinion would be how high do you go.
Whatever dickhead. For a guy who's constantly on my case for starting "shitty" threads, you've started quite a few questionable ones yourself.
I concur with Boss & Whiskey. Anything below 126 I rarely give a fuck about, unless its a truly GREAT fighter, or a truly EXCEPTIONAL talent(Ricardo Lopez & Too Sharp Johnson). So really... I only follow 126-175. Dont care much bout the midgets, NEVER cared about the cruiserweights, and it goes w/o saying that the heavyweight division has been dead since Lummox retired.
I watch Darchinyan fight...and if guys like Gamboa,Juanma,Caballero were at 118 or so..i would also watch 'em...
Agreed. Some of the best fights in boxing take place below 126 and yet they get little print or air time.
See when I watch those lower weights fight I don't wanna see them hurt each other. I wanna sponsor them. I want them to send me updates and pictures for a dollar a day....
They are being sponsored. You can't expect people to send them money with the only thing they get in return is a photo can you? They make them fight to earn that dollar per day and clean drinking water. That way they learn what it's like to work for their money and not just sit around on their 90 pound asses hoping foreigners will just give it to them.
Honestly, I can watch great fighters doing great things if they are on, but I honestly could name less than three fighters who weigh 126lb or fewer. MTF
:tick: yeah? Well if Nikolai Valuev was at 105 or so I would also watch Otherwise, I don't watch much of anything under 126 unless I hear from somewhere that there has been a great fight. IMHO what those diaperweights do just does not resemble boxing very much.
For much the same reason Im not interested in women's boxing - when I fully believe I could saunter into the ring and slap either one of them around, it's difficult to care too much.
so part of the fun for you is knowing that the guys you're watching could kick your ass? that seems strange to me.
I guess this means that nobody will be watching the Showtime Bantamweight tourney? 1. Fernando Montiel (43-2-2, 33 KO, WBO, 3 Defenses; WBC, 1 Defense) 2. Anselmo Moreno (30-1-1, 10 KO, WBA, 7 Defenses) 3. Yonnhy Perez (20-0-1, 14 KO, IBF, 1 Defense) 4. Hozumi Hasegawa (28-3, 12 KO) 5. Abner Mares (20-0-1, 13 KO) 6. Joseph Agbeko (27-2, 22 KO) 7. Nehomar Cermeno (19-2, 11 KO) 8. Vic Darchinyan (35-2-1, 27 KO) 9. Alexander Bakhtin (25-0, 11 KO) 10. Eric Morel (42-2, 21 KO, WBO interim) With the exception of Morel, I'd watch any fight involving any combination of fighters on that list (though I'd watch Morel if he were fighting any of the Top 4, since all would thoroughly whip his ass). The best part is that most will be fighting (or have already fought) each other. Add Nonito Donaire to the mix and the division becomes that much stronger.
How so? Few would watch a basketball game either if you could whip them all on court. And few would watch a porn flick if the chick on it was buttugly. It just won't give anything to you. To me, one of the biggest factors with boxing's entertainment is the feeling that one punch can change it all and that fighters need to be alert all the time. In the lowest weight classes the guys seem to get hit without caring much (yeah'a'now, you can find an example of 1-punch KOs). Personally I rather watch a slower-paced, tactical and thinking fight than a 150+ punches per round slapfest
