Manny Pacquiao won’t fix the Hall of Fame’s blind spots. The process needs an overhaul | Thomas Hauser I don't think this guy gets the idea of "Fame". He also thinks we don't watch the fights.
All the unworthy guys he mentioned deserve to be in before pazienza. Haymon won't show up to the ceremony anyway so why elect him ? Other publicists being in certainly warrants hoppers election. If he worked for arum instead of king he'd be in
Hauser's a fuckin idiot. Outraged that Paz gets in (which is valid). His alternatives: Jermain Taylor, Pavlik, and Cooney. You gotta be fuckin kidding me... Jermain isn't even the most deserving TAYLOR. Meldrick belongs in the Hall, not Jermain. Pavlik COULD HAVE and WOULD HAVE been in the Hall, but the booze cut his career too short for him to deserve it. And Gerry Cooney is simply not a HOFmer, I'm sorry. There are quite literally COUNTLESS non-heavyweights who deserve the Hall before Gerry Cooney.
The best part of the article is this paragraph Sean Gibbons weaseled his way into becoming a player basically by becoming pacquaio's guy. He used to be top ranks b side procurer bringing in midwest scrubs like Marty jacubowski to take ass whipping. Best thing he ever did was punching some fans who attacked Orlando salido after a fight Then you got lee "minty" groves as we called him back in the vhs fight trading days. He'd request mint quality fights then send back some barely watchable bullshit Ratner was poor at best running nsac before leaving to become a cage jockey You can see him ringside convincing lane to let the holyfield fight continue after Tyson bit him the first time
That's precisely my point. Pazienza might not deserve to be in there but to give nominations to others like Taylor and Cooney is ridiculous given that at least Pazienza win a title (Cooney didn't, and could have done so in the fragmenting era of the early 80s) and Taylor was steered into an eminently winnable fight with an aging champ and LOST THE REMATCH before going on TO DRAW with Wonky Wright and then start putting together a very high profile losing streak. Hauser, typically, cannot just be happy with the general flaws in Pazienza as a candidate. He has to introduce extraneous shit which undermines his position. Pazienza was a face first lightweight who blew up to fight naturally bigger guys. Some of them he did away with like Rosenblatt. Other guys like Jones and Graham exposed his shortcomings, something big slick fighters should have done against a guy whose best days were at 135 and who had suffered a horrific car accident which could have ended his life never mind just his career. If Pazienza had done what he'd done in the 1920s, winning a lightweight title and getting slapped around by Tiger Flowers or Max Schmelling then he'd be in the HOF already.
