Common myths in boxing

pacquiao's not on steriods floyd is feather-fisted pacquiao fans aren't the most racist fanbase broner is the new berto matthysse is better than b- level matthysse beat judah danny garcia is overrated danny garcia-matthysse was close GGG is p4p kovalev is p4p ward is boring floyd is boring rigo is boring

I had no idea Mundine beat him by stoppage. When I heard that I flipped out, but then someone told me Mosley quit because of an injury and it made sense. The idea of Anthony Mundine stopping Shane Mosley was more than my brain could handle. It was pathetic. He had to retire because of an injury. And the announcers were flipping out about how Mundine could legitimately make a claim to fight Mayweather because he had "done something no one else could do....knock out Shane Mosley". Ninja please. But he was beating Mosley soundly.

Ray Leonard ducked Aaron Pryor

that michael nunn was dominating james toney

That Meldrick Taylor was robbed in his stoppage loss to Chavez. It was a close fight that saw Taylor take a sustained beating throughout. He had nothing left at the time of stoppage albeit so close to the final bell and he was never the same fighter again. People seem to listen to the biased US commentary more than watching what's actually happening in the ring when making a judgement about this fight.

That a WW can cherry pick a LW. These light weights are coming in fight night at 168, ALA Mattyse/Molina fight, etc.. These guys are hiding in the lower divisions and no one says sh^t about it. In fact they are bashing WW for fighting them, when they out weigh some of the WWs on fight night.

that lennox lewis defeated vitali klitschko. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

that lennox lewis defeated vitali klitschko.

When they mention the top of the 147 154 division and act like they know boxing, but ain't got s.hit to say when they mention the top of any other division...

Never thought about it, looked it up. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-official-answers-on-xylocaine-is-it-illegal-the-usa-is-it-banned-boxing-is-it-a-ped According to this, and I can't vouch for the source or anything, xylocaine is perfectly legal. I think it's illegal in some states, but very few. The whole "It's only legal in Vegas" came from a fanblog that some fan wrote. Literally that is what it came from. It's probably still possible to find on the net somewhere. Other than that fanblog, there is nothing else to suggest that. Everyone seemed to run with it. Crazy.

:lol1: :lol1: As far I know. Never seen any actual evidence for it and no one has been able to provide me any. Never thought about it, looked it up. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-official-answers-on-xylocaine-is-it-illegal-the-usa-is-it-banned-boxing-is-it-a-ped According to this, and I can't vouch for the source or anything, xylocaine is perfectly legal.

He's never been hard to hit. After early-mid 00's he became very easy to hit. And I can count on my fingers how many times he's been badly hurt or even hurt in general. The guy said Canelo's not even a hard puncher :lol1: His chin is so accustomed to bombs that he thinks Mayweather and Canelo have the same power which surely just can't be the case. canelo was also not punching anywhere near as hard then, as he is now and it's funny, mayweather was alot more powerful when he'd only fight once a year yet stay in fighting shape all year round, now he's reverted to his days at welterweight before his retirement, less time to sniff glue and old age i guess

That's not true!?? Yikes ive been spouting that **** to people too... :lol1: :lol1: As far I know. Never seen any actual evidence for it and no one has been able to provide me any.

Here's a good one; Xylocaine is banned everywhere other than Vegas. Whoever made that up literally pulled it out of no where. And you see some many people say that on here :lol1: That's not true!?? Yikes ive been spouting that **** to people too...

Here's a good one; Xylocaine is banned everywhere other than Vegas. Whoever made that up literally pulled it out of no where. And you see some many people say that on here :lol1:

i think that's fair. he shied away from the punishment from manny, but i think that was more ofa case of his will being broken down than his chin. manny did hurt him, but his legs looked mostly intact soon after he got back up. they touched gloves an awful lot, IIRC :lol1: he ate all of canelo's bombs, and we know that he can punch. cotto oscar vargas all could punch. He's never been hard to hit. After early-mid 00's he became very easy to hit. And I can count on my fingers how many times he's been badly hurt or even hurt in general. The guy said Canelo's not even a hard puncher :lol1: His chin is so accustomed to bombs that he thinks Mayweather and Canelo have the same power which surely just can't be the case.

Willy Pep won a round without throwing a punch Fernando Vargas was the youngest 154 champion ever

i think oscar at 147 was the best puncher shane faced, and he did land some of his best gas. mosley has one of the better chins of the last 20 years. he's up there with margarito, james toney,

Mosley had a great chin throughout his career. One of the best chins of this era IMO. i think that's fair. he shied away from the punishment from manny, but i think that was more ofa case of his will being broken down than his chin. manny did hurt him, but his legs looked mostly intact soon after he got back up. they touched gloves an awful lot, IIRC :lol1: he ate all of canelo's bombs, and we know that he can punch. cotto oscar vargas all could punch.

1. Floyd made a career out of ducking guys. Dumbest myth in delusional fans' minds. Doesn't even make any sense. 2. You have to TAKE the title from the champ. The hell that even mean? You either beat somebody or you don't. Anybody, champ or not. You either got the best of it on the cards or you didn't. 3. Andre Ward is a routine headbutter/dirty fighter. His head came together with Kessler's a lot but since then? I don't see it. They try to sell that as a knock on Ward but it's BS. Hops uses his head a lot more than that when he can. Ward/Kessler had nothing to do with Ward being dirty. Clash of styles like Bradley/Alexander. Bradley's not dirty either. Ward's not a dirty fighter. Butthurt Kessler fans want that to follow him forever. Fan of both personally. 4. That either Floyd or Manny are anymore cherrypickers than anybody else who is a star fighter. They're only held to stupid standards. Nobody says jack about Marquez fighting Ramos or Fedchenko but people b*tch about Mayweather/Maidana for a unification or Pacquiao/Bradley? Those are some seriously different standards and different standards are great myth creators. 5. That all Floyd fans hate Pacquiao and all Pacquiao fans hate Mayweather. Real fans know both are great and respect their abilities and accomplishments. 6. The myth that being slick is about how good you are. It's a style, it has nothing to do with how good you are with that style. People talk about guys that use a LOT of slickness in their defense and even though they're not that good with it and get hit a lot people act like just because they aren't Mayweather or Rigo that must mean they're not slick. If you use a lot of movement and angles to slip punches as the better part of your defense, that's being slick. You MAY be crappy at it but it doesn't mean you're slick. It's like the equivalent of if everybody compared all pressure fighters to Chavez Senior and anyone who wasn't as good as that you just claimed they weren't a pressure fighters at all. Styles and levels are not the same thing. There's a lot of slick fighters out there. Most of them aren't world class though. And the ones that are might be of different levels. Lara is a slick world class contender. Rigo is a slick p4p elite. But they're both slick. 7. The myth that Wlad and Vitali somehow doubleteamed the division and Wlad got "help" from Vitali and it devalued his reign. Wlad fought almost all the best contenders of the post Lennox era, Vitali fought almost none. Vitali "helped" Wlad not fight who? Kevin Johnson? Adamek? Really? Because Adamek was the highest rated contender and only real earned Ring rated contender Vitali fought that Wlad didn't already fight (Peter) since his comeback. That's called singleteamed not doubleteamed. lol If Vitali fought any of Povetkin, Chambers, Haye, Ibragimov, Chagaev, Thompson...naw. He didn't. Not one. The Vitali help myth must die. It's been a Wlad era not a Klitschkos era. TRUTH. Ali was lighting Foreman up with combinations the whole time. He was clearly winning that fight when the knockout happened. Not that it was easy and he didn't get his body battered but he was still clearly winning. Great Post. This is the most LOL one for me personally. People think you can "improve" punching power. You can improve your technique and put more weight in shots and that shall certainly add venom to a certain extent, but you can't go from feather fisted to a puncher. Don't you think guys like Bradley would've figured out if there was a way to become a puncher? This post on the other hand is a complete contradiction. Not so great.