Vargas will win but will he get the decision?

The first LEGENDARY thread that I remember on the old S/O forums. The Tito-Vargas fight was polarizing.

Nothing like two undefeated champions in their primes, from different cultures, going at it for all the marbles.

That thread featured all of the secondsout legends in their primes and at their posting peak! Phonetap and Everlast in particular were revealed in that they lead the charge for each opposing team. Who remembers that?

What other fights over the last ten years or so of boxing forums have generated so much discussion? And why?

 

I started posting as a 16-year-old in 2000, though I have followed since ten. First massive one online I recall, vividly in fact, was Hopkins-Trinidad.

 

Tito-Vargas was definitely the biggest i remember, too.

 

Never posted on that site, I came here from Boxing.com.

 

S/O was a great forum! At it's peak it was probably one of the best forums. Only drawback was I kept getting Banned from David Leeder AKA Buddy Rydell ;)

 

B.C ?????


Haha Sorry Ramonza bro but I still find it surreal that you're that young!!

 

Watch Slystaff come in here any moment and explain to me that it's not funny because computers didn't even exist back then.....

 

No

 

i was hyped about tito-vargas, but hopkins-tito to me, was the bigger fight.

 

I watch Tito vs Vargas all the time, I love that fight. It was really a great fight. Vargas was a good fighter then and the guy was pure heart.

 

Seems no one can quite believe anyone my age would favour older fighters over newer ones as much as I do, but honestly, I am painfully aware Boxing did not commence with my birth.

 

It didn't but there have been some improvements since man discovered fire.

 

Youre right --- I just surmise the game has gone more backwards than forwards overall.

 

Yeah, the Tito-Vargas thread is still the biggest/best pre-fight thread Ive ever seen on ANY forum! Hell, the thread had me more hyped than the promos.

Then of course, soon as Tito knocked him out... the whole Island joined the forum within minutes.

Until Sept 29, 2001..... when for some reason the Island mysteriously disappeared.

 

:giggle:

 

Was a bunch of shit stolen?

 

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The Lost City of Wraplantis

 

That was a very sad day X, I had nightmares for 2 fucking weeks. Fucking Trinidad! :fightme:

 

I remember those times. Those were the days. Lol.

I was 18 at the time and had joined the secondsout forum earlier that year. I wanna say I joined it sometime prior to Mosley-De La Hoya 1.

But yeah 2000 was really a GREAT YEAR for boxing. So many big fights got made that year and wars. The anticipation of Trinidad and Vargas meeting was off the page for sure. And the discussions and debates were intense. The whole forum was DIVIDED.

Great times. :Thumbs:

 

Golden Era in message board history. The entire forum was divided, virtually 50-50 on that fight. Just like the odds for the actual fight. I remember being in the midst of those discussions.

 

The controversy over Mayweather/Castillo I on secondsout dragged on for quite a bit, I recall

 

On this forum, the amount of people who thought that Mayweather/Gatti would be anything other than a slaughter was absolutely stunning to me

even more amazing were the idiots who tried to suggest after the fact that Gatti fought the wrong fight!!! as if he had a choice in the matter!! its like saying Lou Bizzarro "fought the wrong fight" against Duran

 

Agreed! :Thumbs:

 

Agreed. I remember the Trinidad Fanatics were going wild. Great times.

 

The only person i can actually recall thinking it would competitive at all is the all knowing Oracle PetreTG.

Did Gatti fight the wrong fight? Yeah, but that made about .003 percent difference.

 

If you watch the HBO preview show for Mayweather-Gatti, they are trying so hard to sell it as a competitive matchup, it's kind of funny.

"How is Mayweather going to react when he finds out that this guy is willing to die in the ring?"

Um, punch him some more?

 

:laughing:

 

After Tito lost, Alabama Man started banning the Aussie contingent, one by one. We lost some great forum members.