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Lower weights vs higher weights

Salim_Shady96 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:50:50 GMT

Why does lower weight boxing tend to get overlooked and have less appeal than heavyweights even though their full of action. Some HW clashes could send anyone to sleep and everyone loves it whereas you always get FOTY material that could wake up a coma patient in the lighter weights.

High Altitude Masks?

Salim_Shady96 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:34:54 GMT

Do they work? I'm wondering if I should buy some for my boxing training and runs. Are they worth it and how have your experiences with them been? Thanks guys.

Could 2015 potentially be the biggest year in boxing?

The_Sandman — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:16:18 GMT

Not all of these fights are finalized, but they're potentials.

Matthysse vs Provoknikov
Wilder vs Stiverne (already happened)
Wilder vs Fury (maybe)
Rigondeux vs Leo Santa Cruz
Rios vs Alvarado III (on paper it was good)
Thurman vs Guerrero
Garcia vs Peterson (it's whatever. Best choice for Danny right now I guess)
Broner vs Molina

And of course the big one.

Imagine if Cotto vs Canelo was happening. Maybe later this year.

How will Mikey Garcia do at 140?

Salim_Shady96 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:11:01 GMT

Kid is mega talented but going up two divisions is never easy as Broner showed us. How do you guys think he'll do?

So do we expect a good undercard or crappy one?

SergioMartinez — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:58:15 GMT

So with specifics looming over the date.
If the fight that the world wants to see takes place.

What happens on the undercard, in a perfect world Canelo Vs Cotto would be the PERFECT event to undercard the biggest fight in history, but that's not gonn happen, plus Canelo has moved on to Kirkland.

Do you think this even will be the average undercard, or one of the worst ever.

I know some of you are gonna say "who cares about the undercard"
I think with so much money being TIED up, no way any big names can be paid to be on the under card.

Give examples of when a fighter crossed the line

mortal7 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:07:27 GMT

Title is self-explanatory. Give some examples of when a fighter crossed the line. It can be in or out of the ring.

Mine are: Bhop throwing the Puerto Rican flag on the floor promoting the Trinidad fight. Mayweather going racist on Asians on Ustream.

What are yours?

Whats the Hurdle Between Making a Cotto vs GGG Fight? Am I Missing Something?

D-Checc — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:05:41 GMT

Whats the Hurdle Between Making a Cotto vs GGG Fight? Am I Missing Something?

I mean same weight class, both have belts/ why isnt cotto open to negotiation with GGG? Doesnt GGG promoters K2 actually work well with Top Rank, I dont understand whats going on here.

[HOLY S**T!] Aaron Hernandez Trial Has Begun

Public_Enemy — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:00:11 GMT

The Hernandez trial started today and a lot of information concerning the prosecution's case was laid out. They have some strong circumstantial evidence. There's no murder weapon or eye witness but the prosecution has a good case. They have a footprint at the scene of the crime. It is alledgedly Hernandez's. They also have the victim and Hernandez's dna on a marijuana joint. Hernandez's fingerprints were found on a shell casing found in his rental car. There is also surveillance footage showing the victim and Hernandez, along with the other defendants in the case, shortly before the crime was committed.

This is by no means an open and shut case but the evidence is solid. What the prosecution doesn't have is a motive. It is believed the the victim may have known too much about another murder Hernandez may be involved in but the other case/murder can't be brought during this trial.

What do you guys think about the case?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...ibK/story.html

What Food Will you be making for Super Bowl Sunday

BrushMyHair — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:18:33 GMT

I thought I would ask the Lounge this question. I personally won't be making any food because I plan on going to a bar to watch the game. But some of my friends are having a BBQ for the SB. What various kinds of food will you be making.

is Adrien Bronzer naturally left handed?

Bronsky — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:11:15 GMT

I see him sign autographs with his right but that doesn't mean much since myself and my sister are both left handed but were taught at an early age to write with the right hand. From what I see Adrien always uses his right to set up his left. Kind of like a rear jab. His entire left side is also more developed than his right. Also, when he works on the bag his left has a lot more noticeable power than his right and then when he switches to southpaw on the bag his right seems much weaker compared to his left. Just something I've noticed and am speculating on.

Andre Ward update

Eastcoast — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:54:26 GMT

Yesterday I read that Roc Nations is now only looking at Ward fighting 2x this year instead of three. Today Kim tweets on Ward 'butting' with HBO over his tune-up.

Word in the industry is that Andre Ward and HBO are butting heads because Ward wants an expensive tune-up fight, network is balking #boxing
— Steve Kim (@steveucnlive) January 29, 2015

Basically, Ward feels he***39;s had a long lay-off( which he has), but should he be rewarded for that by HBO when it was self-inflicted? #boxing
— Steve Kim (@steveucnlive) January 29, 2015

This guy might be Peter Quillin stupid. How does he not understand that with his high minimum, he can't just expect to take blow-off fights? He points out it's a double standard with Golovkin, but he never mentions Golovkin gets less than half of what he gets for about the same ratings.

If he was smart, he'd let Roc Nation put him on Fox or ESPN for a couple fights and rebuild his brand. Yeah he doesn't get much money for it, but advertising costs money!

Who can beat Floyd?

VG_Addict — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:44:06 GMT

Who would you favor to beat Floyd?

UFC 183 - The return of Anderson Silva

Jay Volcano — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:22:43 GMT

Anderson Silva is the greatest MMA fighter of all-time. He has nothing to prove, we all know what he is capable of. Although it's not unreasonable to wonder if Silva's timing might be off as well, given the long layoff. His return will also be a huge psychological challenge.

I don't know what to expect from Silva in this one. He has more tools than Diaz, he's stronger than him, bigger than him and possesses greater knockout power. So, by all accounts, Anderson Silva should take care of Nick Diaz pretty handily. However, Nick is a very skilled boxer, who is incredibly difficult to knockout or submit and he also has ****ing amazing cardio.

"Austerity" It's greek to me

One_Businessman — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:08:08 GMT

Austerity in both the dictionary and in real world economics means cutting government spending so you run a surplus, usually in order to pay down or at least stem ballooning government debts.

However, "austerity" has a different meaning to communists, socialists, leftists, democrats and other varied sorts of the same Marxist political spectrum - "bloody murder."

Had you been paying attention to Greece (or even some of the lefter leaning parties in the western world) an orchestrated, purposeful, and intentional assault has been made on the word "austerity." The left (as they like to do with many other words) has targeted the word "austerity" and now intend to redefine it and villainize it so a lemming-like population of sheeple will vote against it, no matter how necessary and required it is. And so like "anti-biotics" or "emergency heart surgery" or "CPR," the left (at least in Greece) has managed to avoid taking it's much necessary medicine by making the word "austerity" a pejorative.

But was what Greece was going through really "austerity?" Did the government "tighten it's belt," run surpluses, and give a much needed, reality based, come to Jesus meeting, rah-rah pep talk to its citizens about knuckling down, doing their share "so we can get through this and see the dawn of tomorrow?"

Ha!

Like all leftists you are nearly guaranteed that what comes out of their mouths is 100% false.

First, the Greek government came nowhere close to running a surplus. Deficits as a percentage of GDP are still laughably in double digits which, for normal countries, could indicate they were engaged in a war.

Second, leftists always looking for an excuse will muster their almightiest of mathematics and make the 4th grade level observation that it could have been REVENUES that were decreasing faster than spending. Really?

Admittedly the chart is missing its past two years (thanks for being on top of that one OECD!), but let's not kid ourselves. Greek deficits were NOT caused by a revenue problem, they were caused by a spending problem.

And finally, as the leftists are against the ropes, painted into a corner by reality and facts, we can reliably predict their next move because it's the same damn move they've always made before. They're going to blame government spending on the always reliable, always evil "corporate tax breaks," "military spending," and "give aways for the rich."

However, unfortunately this is not America, and (as is always the case with leftists) it's not true. The Greek budget (which is actually quite difficult to come by) shows what those of us who insist on being informed already know. The majority of the spending binge went to darlings of leftist spending.

The budget is rather lengthy and detailed, but if you look at table 3.18 you'll notice three things.

1. If you add up all the leftist/socialist/social programs, for 2014 they add up to 66 out of the 88 billion Euro budget. This is roughly 75% of the budget. Not "defense spending." Not "money to rich people." Leftist, socialist programs are the primary cause of the country's financial woes.

2. There are some issues with the "general state expenditure," since it accounts for 37 billion Euro. But since the states do not have defense, etc., I am assuming the majority of that money as well goes to leftist social programs.

3. Government employees. Even if you don't look at the functional purposes of each budgetary group, each group has a shockingly high percentage of their expenses going to "salaries and pension." Indicating AGAIN a leftist, socialist preference to overpay government employees.

In the end, I am fully aware that none of these charts is going to convince a single leftist, let alone the professional activist parasite who's avoided a real job all his life (like our president) who is now the Prime Minister of Greece. But that is not the point of this post.

It is to point out that these people are delusional. They literally have a mental problem and that is the inability to live in the real world. However, unlike other instances where there is a working class or a productive class to bail them out, thereby keeping the delusion up, Greece does not have that. It is at the mercy of the EU. And this will be one of the first (of what I predict to be several more) instances where socialists and leftists will be told "no" and for the first time in their lives face the economic reality that you can't have a society of "professional activists," "teachers," "professors," "government workers," and other parasites because in the end they produce absolutely nothing of real economic value.

And we, my friends, are going to have a front row seat to watch these communists explode with cognitive dissonance.

Was Mike Alvarado trying to cheat???

bigjavi973 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:58:53 GMT

Very interesting about alvarado and "wet" handwraps:

What do ya think?