BOXING HISTORY 101: Why Precedence Matters !!! (Readers only thread)

[Ravishing]

Originally Posted by Horus

Makes you wonder, why would they do such a thing?

To give you something to do on a Sunday, truthfully.

[Horus]

Originally Posted by Ravishing

To give you something to do on a Sunday, truthfully.

, oh is that the reason sombody name "Thread Stealer"
bump this thread?

[Bright-Eyes]

Originally Posted by Horus

Great Post,
These so called hardcore boxing fans are so hardcore that they don’t know any HARDCORE boxing history...


* People forget or dont know, that Sugar Ray Leonard never fought Pryor, when Pryor called him out in his face!!!


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Post fight interview

[TheGreatA]

He bumped it because of this:


9:30

Did Pryor duck Leonard?

[Ravishing]

Originally Posted by Horus

, oh is that the reason sombody name "Thread Stealer"
bump this thread?

Of course, why else not? lol

[Horus]

Originally Posted by Ravishing

Of course, why else not? lol

In that case lets

[Ravishing]

Originally Posted by Horus

In that case lets

[Allucard]

Originally Posted by Horus

The problem is, they hate out of ignorance...
That is the biggest problem real boxing fans have with these dudes.

I dont have a problem with criticizing Mayweather, the problem I have is when you do it out of ignorance and act is if nobody in history especially the great fighters in history would have never done some of the same things Mayweather is doing now...

It's not just out of ignorance. Imagine Floyd in a few years becomes slow enough some young prospect (picture a post Judah Cotto or Undefeated Hatton, hungry cats) with only half his talent would beat him. Floyd would immediately fall under the sidekick category, he would be the greatest after those who beat him. People would be comfortable with that and would no longer hate Floyd. For them, Floyd cannot be Rocky, he has to be Apollo Creed. Shows how old their ideas are and exactly where they're coming from. Thing is, time has changed and NO ONE wants to be someone's sidekick anymore and Floyd has a winner's mind set, he's #1 not #2, he's Tiger Woods, he's Michael Jordan, he's Roger Federer. He's no sidekick or will ever settle with #2. We don't expect him to either.

[check hook]

Originally Posted by Horus

BOXING HISTORY 101: Why Precedence Matters !!! (Readers only thread)

Shout outs to Allucard, great post to inspire me to write this thread.

BOXING HISTORY 101: Why Precedence Matters !!! (Readers only thread)

Great Post,
These so called hardcore boxing fans are so hardcore that they don’t know any HARDCORE boxing history...

They act is if Floyd Mayweather is setting precedence never seen before in boxing. They act is if Sugar Ray Robinson WAS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE ON HOW A FIGHTER SHOULD BE AND wasn’t the Biggest ******* in the sport when it comes to money... The guy would pull out of fights on fight night just to change to already agreed upon money split....

Imagine if Mayweather did that with somebody today...On the night of the fight, He says he isn’t going to fight unless he now gets 65% instead of the 60% he already agreed on....Could you picture the reaction????

* People forget or dont know, that Sugar Ray Leonard never fought Pryor, when Pryor called him out in his face!!!

* People forget or dont know, that SRL made Hagler wait 8 years before he would fight him...

* People forget or dont know Haglar was NORTOROIUS for calling out a smaller man and making them come up to his weightclass to fight him.

Haglar was infamous from calling out welterweights and former lightweights.
(hearns,SRL,Duran) Sounds like a fighter we know today: (Hopkins)

* People forget or dont know that Michael Spinks used to called Haglar out for years but Haglar pretended that Spinks didnt exist. Why didnt Haglar fight Spinks the biggerman instead of always making smaller men moved up and fight him.
Haglar always fought the Smallerman... But is his legacy tarnish?????



* People Forget, that Roberto Duran just quit against SRL, because he could not take SRL style anymore...Picture what would happen if Mayweather quit a fight against somebody because their style was too hard for them to handle...

People act is if the past in boxing was some kind of holy time.
No fighter in history has fought everyone. NO FIGHTER!!!
Especially in their 4th weightclass. !!!

Jack Dempsey never fought any black fighters, Sound familiar???

If people actually learn some boxing history, they would not act as if Floyd is breaking every secret boxing rule in the book every time Floyd makes a decision.


This is why I dont take half of these clowns seriously.
Because they dont know any history, and complain about ****
that some of their greatest fighters in history used to do all the the time.
But when Mayweather does it, They act as if SRR,SRL,HAGLAR,DURAN,etc...
would never have never done that..!!!

boxing is the only sport in which contradictions are allowed to happen and the ignorant lead the ignorant.!

Some good posts......but people have no idea about history that far back....they don't even take the time to know Floyd's history as a fighter............