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david carmichael posted:Basically are we upset about the exploitation of the disadvantaged for our pointless benefit/entertainment, or are we upset that we let people box for any reason? I think that if there was no money in boxing and it was free to watch and people did it for voluntary fun like softball or rec bball then its fine. Just two consenting adults giving each other brain damage out of love of the game I think it’s mostly that no one films sweatshop slaves dying of heatstroke or logs falling on lumberjacks and we don’t throw parties to watch it happen and cheer while it does
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colachute posted:Yes, but we don't watch the sweat shops where those are made, which was the point. Out of sight out of mind is actually a thing. Yeah. As a fight sport fan you’re no more or less complicit in the death of a fighter than you are in all the other deaths that’s support your life style, but getting really amped for what turns out to have been a death match may make all that suffering suddenly much more immediately real to you
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Dejan Bimble posted:One of the best things about boxing right now is that it's really easy to find a replay of a biggish fight. Even if you need to watch it with spanish or ukranian announcers on youtube, it's there. And there's even a torrent scene He’s taller than pac but has a negative reach-height differential, right ?
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I feel like “washed” doesn’t really describe a guy who is fighting competitive matches and winning many of them against top competition. Past his prime sure, but washed up is absurd
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Marching Powder posted:Here's some fan fiction to enjoy. “Letterbox” and Antonio Brown doesn’t sexually assault anyone or threaten to kill his kids’ mom, you can tell this was written by an Australian who has no idea who Antonio Brown is
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Marching Powder posted:Lol and would knowing who Antonio Brown is negate him from the extremely unique pressures placed on people who have never fought before? no. I didn’t say anything about that I just made a domestic violence joke
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Dunno if he can box but NateRob had a 10 year nba career and was a legendary dunker despite being about 5’9”, he’s a genuinely incredible athlete even old and washed.
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Yeah the one guy was out of his league but pink gloves and theme is dope and that was a nasty cut to open in 90 fucken seconds
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Oct 18, 2020 03:24
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Dejan Bimble posted:Do any of you guys like to yell "LOMAAAA" in a boston accent how they used to yell "NOMAAAAAR?" All the time. You name a time. Yss
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Oct 18, 2020 04:09
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GalacticAcid posted:No way these guys go ten rounds They’d both die
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Oct 18, 2020 04:09
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Saucedo looks good when he gets in close, he was getting better angles and tiring barboza out inside in 6. But he’s probably down 5-1 or 4-2
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Oct 18, 2020 04:17
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ccubed posted:I like this instant replay rule. That was a knockdown and now scored as such. Yeah. And I think Barboza is trying to bait out rabbit punches. He’s worn out and doesn’t look like he did in the first 5
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Oct 18, 2020 04:21
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BrotherJayne posted:Great stoppage too Yeah at first I was like drat that was quick but he was done. Any more time and the poor dude is just forgetting cousins Jiro posted:Nice to see a good looking card on "free" tv. Saucedo just keeps using the Hajime no Ippo strategy of blocking punches with his face. He could have turned this around after 6-7 but he really likes being punched
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Oct 18, 2020 04:27
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GalacticAcid posted:drat salute to both of them, shocked this went the distance Yeah and I was very wrong. They both were still working at the end
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Oct 18, 2020 04:32
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Declan MacManus posted:is loma-lopez about to start? i've been doing campaign notes for d&d all night but i'm at a good stopping point Not really. Last other fight ended but now there’s all the interstitial poo poo. You probably have ten or fifteen minutes
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Declan MacManus posted:is loma-lopez about to start? i've been doing campaign notes for d&d all night but i'm at a good stopping point I haven’t played in a decade but what kind of campaign is it
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Declan MacManus posted:curse of strahd, vampires n' poo poo because it's halloween. starts out in a haunted house and gets worse Give em hell lol
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Lopez doing everything and still looking more concerned. A very weird fight
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I think it was 7-5 but one the whole Lopez was much better. They’ll fight again and he’ll be the prohibitive favorite
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Declan MacManus posted:i think loma will look way better if he comes into the second fight with a gameplan of "punch, in this, the punch sport" Yeah but he kind of never has? I wouldn’t t exactly say he’s scared of power but he’s not confident he can win if he’s getting hit a lot. This fight he took that to an extreme that’s hard to understand from outside though. He looked completely confident for six rounds while losing at least 5 of them
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Oct 18, 2020 06:13
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straight up brolic posted:https://twitter.com/CompuBox/status/1317691305665888257?s=20 I mean...that’s good defense at the same time. Those totals for Lopez would be limp in most fights, and it’s easy to see why lomachenko didn’t feel worried because he wasn’t really getting hit but...uh, he forgot the other thing
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Oct 18, 2020 06:17
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The Ninth Layer posted:He underestimated Lopez's range and speed and took too long to realize it. Absolutely. It’s just interesting to think how he didn’t realize it so to speak. Because he wasn’t getting hit he didn’t process quite how he had no route to landing. He was sure Lopez would slow down and he could start generating misses and punishing them until it was way too late. The rounds just went too fast for him
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Oct 18, 2020 06:25
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The SituAsian posted:Teofimo tested positive for COVID so the Triller card Saturday is off meaning now only ESPN, DAZN and Showtime will have boxing on Saturday night. Dark times indeed.l At the moment there is not good evidence that asthma contributes to severity or morbidity of covid 19. It totally makes sense that it would but it appears that it doesn’t. Covid 19 is weird.
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LLCoolJD posted:Silva did look good in his boxing match, but on the other hand Ortiz is a larger, pumped up brawler who's probably going to be less gunshy than Chavez, Jr. So who knows. He’s not really bigger, just fatter. Anderson had no problems at 205 and is the same height with a bigger wingspan. He’s also a terrible boxer and far more washed than Silva, who is pretty loving washed. There’s no way
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Flayer posted:Fury is a better boxer than Wilder. Reckon Fury will wear him down and win by TKO in the 11th. Hope you placed a bet
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Oct 10, 2021 19:00
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LLCoolJD posted:James Toney (5'9") and Mike Tyson (5'10" on a good day) are two short heavyweights. Although Toney failed a drug test so he wasn't awarded the title. I don't see Canelo doing what those guys did at heavyweight. Isn't canelo like 2 or 3 inches shorter than even that though?
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Declan MacManus posted:took inoue a while. Washed Up?!!!!??? Lol For real though that kid took a loving beating, doesn’t even have a wiki page
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balancedbias posted:The only time I actually felt sympathy for Floyd was the scores against Canelo; he literally yelled "WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS?!" it must be very annoying to beat the crap out of some guy for 30 minutes then have someone say you lost (i know he didn't actually lose any of the cards)
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The SituAsian posted:Mikey Garcia updated his Instagram to "retired" world champ. I don’t follow closely enough to understand why. 40-2 seems pretty loving good, both losses at the very end. Did he get a lot of gift decisions or dodge the real threats or something?
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ah that makes sense. reminds me of a guy like javale mcgee, who has the body and athleticism and brain to be an all time basketball player but just considers it a job he doesn't particularly identify with so he's just a decent rotation player.
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Freudian slippers posted:I haven't listened to the podcast, but he's not the only one making the argument. Boxing was for a very long time one of the absolute best ways for athletic, but underprivileged youngsters to make money. Being someone in boxing used to be huge. Other sports have caught up and surpassed boxing in later years with regards to money and prestige, leading to a decline in the available talent pool and subsequent decline in coaching resources etc. Now, I grant that today's knowledge of human physiology and especially nutrition is a big advantage for modern boxers, but the talent pool and technique may well belong to the old timers. This may be true in the US, but the population has almost doubled since 1960, and increased participation from places like the former USSR, Latin America, and east Asia makes up any difference and then some
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Jack B Nimble posted:The big issue is that even if Tyson has a pretty good chance to win an initial blitz, the far less satisfying reality is that Paul tastes his power, gets scared, then plays defensive until Tyson loses steam. it's a boxing match
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