Judah should fight a credibale, yet very very beatable opponent.
Like a Sakio Bika but in his weight class you know? Hed earn respect for the win, but hes still assured a vicotry unless he completely overlooks the guy.
Like Baldomir?
Is Zab Judah done?
Is his career pretty much over? Will he ever fight an important fight again?
I say Cotto was pretty much the final chapter for Judah. He'll probably fight a few more times, and I think he might have one more big-name fight, but he's done for the most part. Unless he has a serious reformation as a fighter, his best days are long behind him.
Tyson's entrances were boring, anyone can come in a towel wearing nothing or just a shirt saying some bs
Yeah but that was part of Tyson's aura...all business, just there to kick your ass and go home. So maybe his entrances weren't flashy, but they were pure Tyson.
Because it's fun to shock people. Because sometimes being an underdog can give you an edge. Especially if you are so big of a dog that your opponent overlooks you.
Most unifications don't work anymore because as soon as a fighter wins more than one title, one of the sanctioning bodies forces them to fight one of their mandatories, which the fighter refuses and either drops one of the belts or gets stripped in order to fight a bigger name.
I know...but they still happen occasionally. What I'm asking is, what kind of agreements, contracts and money go into pushing through all the BS and making a unification fight happen?
I could see this happening sometime in the future...obviously it would have to be a few years down the road when Floyd puts some weight on, against a handpicked opponent that poses little threat to PBF.
Great so you're a fighter. The question wasn't for somebody who already boxes you bum. It was for normal people who would have a tough time making weight but if they would be willing to go through hell to get those 10 mill.
Thank's for stopping by Pretender
I've read the OP about 3 or 4 times now and I see no part where this question isn't intended for people who already box. So if you could go ahead and point that out for me(just the part where it says "If you currently box, this question isn't for you") I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.
I'm 18, 5'11", right now I weigh about 200(although I plan on fighting at 165, to give you an idea of how much weight I have to lose) and I would definitely fight him at 147...Cut some weight, first round KO/TKO, $10 million richer.
Who wouldn't want to do this?
No your right.
Holyfield thinks he is going to tidy up the division, which he wont although it needs it!
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I can't believe Holyfield actually said that then.
Hmm so does that mean it is possible beat the undisputed champion, but not become the undisputed champion? I mean, if Tyson was the undisputed champion when he lost to Douglas...does Douglas become the undisputed champion? I would have to say no, but I could be wrong.
You have to realize that when lightweights fight, they cut weight (almost) 100% of the time. This isn't true for heavyweights, and I'd have to imagine it's not as true for cruiserweights. So in addition to the natural weight advantage that a heavyweight has, he also has more energy because he hasn't been skipping meals and living in a sauna for the past few weeks.
Weight plays a very big deal at the top level of competition. I wrestled in HS and College and against top competition it is a big difference. If you are a lot better than the other person it doesn't matter as much but when it comes down to the elites and top echelon the power difference is enough to sway the match.
I use to cut 30+ pounds in about 10 weeks in HS and it wasn't fat either. It was a lot of excessive power lifting weight and creatine mass that I did for football. If I competed in wrestling at my football weight I might've squeaked by in the cities but I would've been manhandled at the states.
I almost put something in my post about the difference between wrestling and boxing, and the weight difference. I wrestled also, and I gave up about 15-20 LBs for almost half the season(I started the season at 189, our 215 moved down, so I was weighing in at about 193-195 wrestling 215). The difference was HUGE.
But wrestling is very different from boxing in that wrestling can require a lot of strength. Running a half at 189 is MUCH MUCH easier than at 215. So if you wrestle a guy 20 LBs heavier than you, even if it's not 20 LBs of muscle, that's more strength that YOU have to have to lift and/or turn him.
Only problem with this would be if someone owned more then one belt in each division like Taylor.
This wouldn't be a huge problem...Say a guy's got the WBA and the IBF straps. So then the WBC and the WBO champs fight, and the winner fights the WBA/IBF champion. If someone holds 3 belts, he fights whoever has the other belt.
The real problem comes when a title is vacant. Do you wait for someone to win the belt? If not, how do you decide who gets a bye while the other champions fight? Maybe the longest reigning champion?
Anytime a boxer dies in the ring.
You know, maybe it makes me cynical or inhumane or something, but I'm not nearly as saddened by a ring death as I am by something like Ali or Taylor. It might just be the way I am, but I would rather die than live the rest of my life extremely crippled or handicapped.
So when I see or hear about someone dying in the ring, I'm glad that they won't have to suffer through years or decades of daily punishment just from waking up in the morning and doing everyday tasks.
If you dont answer the ref, look away too your corner, what do you expect the ref to do? Its a very sad situation, but you cant hold something like that against Richard Steele.
Watching the fight, it's hard to tell if Taylor is so far gone that he has no idea Steele is even talking to him, if he's distracted by his corner, or a little of both. The fact is, there's 2 seconds left. Taylor and Chavez are in opposite corners, they're not even going to make it to the center of the ring before time is up. Just my opinion though...I don't want this thread to become a debate on whether or not the fight should have been stopped.
I saw the Legendary Nights for Pryor-Arguello also...Damn, I thought Pryor was going to kill Arguello when he had him up against the ropes before the fight was stopped.
Heavier gloves are actually more likely to cause a fatality than lighter gloves. LIghter, smaller gloves, however, tend to cause more facial fractures, cuts and other superficial damage.
This kind of makes sense, but do you have any articles or some kind of data to back this up?
They should lower the weight of gloves. At least let the fighters pick the weight.
It's a good idea in theory, but it would just be more bullshit to get through when a fight is being made...especially when the fighters have opposite styles.
u dont understand di grammar?
I couldn't hear him very well. I heard most of it, but when he said something about "I'm gonna beat him and make him call me pretty" I couldn't understand him very well.
One of the many, many times when PBF was talking shit he said something like
"I'm gonna beat him. I'm gonna beat him hard, I'm gonna make him call me pretty. I'll beat him"
It was something like that. Does anyone know what exactly he said?
He retracted that statement during the press tour. He said that after Oscar he was going after Mosley.
He was doing the "retirement" thing in order to hype the fight, but when he saw it needed no more hype he backed off that.
Even when he was talking retirement, the only possible way he would retire is if he beat DLH. I don't think there was ever any chance of him retiring, but especially not if he lost.
He has like no fans because no one wants to be a fan of a fucktard boxer who talks about money that the fans never get.
Is this why nobody likes rappers such as 50 Cent, Jay-Z, or any and every rapper on MTV?
Don King has taken, and still takes, advantage of fighters. Whether or not you can associate that with him ruining the careers of fighters i don't know, but surely fighters have to shoulder some of the blame. Don King is a very intimidating, and persuasive man, but fighters are well within their rights if they don't want to work with him, and there is no written rule that says fighters have to work with Don King, but at one time he was the best Promoter in the world (and he would claim to still being the best) and fighters wanted to work with him because they wanted more money, but the bottom line is that the only important person to Don King is Don King.
That right there is why I have a hard time feeling bad for anyone who has "had their career ruined". They choose to work with King.