Imagine if they thought they had you and came out all guns blazing and wasted all their energy then got koed from exhaustion thats something bernard should try cause he's a sneaky fugger
Yeah but you would never admit it.
Imagine if Haye (already 9 rounds down) was "rocked" in the 10th by a Wlad left, staggered back into the ropes, just manges to stay on his feet, only to come out firing with a huge right hand that hurts Wlad and Haye drives him back into the corner and finsihes him in one of the greatest wins of all time.
He would be known as hardcore warrior that came back from the brink of defeat.
Its called "baiting" or "playing possum". Archie Moore was capable of pulling it off also LaMotta.
Ray.
I was gonna say playing possum but I didnt know if you guys even had possums or knew that phrase.
My cat brings me headless possums on a regualr basis over here in Aus.
that guy you're referring to in MMA was actually hurt, he just had the will to throw a really good punch.
Yeah I know, but it could just as easily be faked with potentially a similar result.
Roger Mayweather did this at times.
Did it ever work ?
As in they were way behind and pull off the ko ? or at least turn the fight ?
I just feel modern day fighters and trainers dont try things.
Apart from diving out the ring that is.
There's few options for him.
Martinez and GGG are contractually obligated to HBO. And they are Middleweights who actually walk around ABOVE Middleweight! And a fight with them is very difficult to make even if Floyd is interested. Showtime isn't going to be interested in sharing revenue for a Mayweather fight with HBO unless the name is Pacquaio.
The best POSSIBLE fights right now is Garcia and Lara, but even they are weak opposition. He'll just toy with them and everyone will whine and cry after they see how easily they get dismantled.
Yep, Garcia who doesn't want it any Lara who no ones ever heard of and has one good win in his whole career.
Khan just gets no credit on this site for whatever reason. It's all about his bad performances and weaknesses and never about the good wins he's had and his strengths.
Whenever a Khan v fighter X fight is talked about, 3 out 4 posts are just one liners saying
"Fighter X by brutal KO" or "Khan gets destroyed" or "first jab kos ?Khan "
Yet he's only been stopped twice in 30+ fights.
Lara, Thurman and now Porter are all more deserving, yet Khan has more good wins than those 3 put together.
The only realistic fighter ahead if ?Khan is Garcia and he's doesn't want it yet. You can say Bradley but he's lost his last 3 fights IMO.
Now Khans on of the worst boxers to ever step in a ring ?
What does make the guys that he beat winning every round then ?
I guess most people actually don't know **** about boxing.
It's easy to stay undefeated against guys who've already been beaten.
ALi the great only fights undefeated fighters, even ones 5 weight divisions above him with no catch weight.
No blueprint.
Khan has only been stopped once in 5 years and took Maidana's best shots. Floyd ain't going to just one shot him. He'll need to be more aggressive than usual to get a KO.
food eats at your energy levels, and you gotta wait about 3 hours after a good meal before you can workout proper
otherwise, food is just as good
If you got diabeties maybe.
Explains why Floyd is lining up Khan so far out.
Announce the fight a week before Pac destroys Rios in devastating fashion and it buys Floyd 6 mths ducking time.
People going on about the $40mil forget Pac is signed to Arum so that's like $28mil to Pac which back then was a joke for the biggest fight in history.
There won't be a similar offer now.
Floyd is very good at moving the goalposts just out of range.
Why was the Canelo fight at 152 again.
He was Puerto Rican, I think he had a fractured wrist. He carried on for a bit but clearly didn't feel right fighting one-handed.
Burns on the other hand continued v Beltran and may now have suffered permanent nerve damage.
I think boxing fans need to drop the whole 'quitter' thing, lives are on the line.
Absolutely!!
Sometimes you have a off day. Sometimes it just doesnt feel right.
I know all you guys on here and you're real fans, you're not about bloodlust.
All fighters have courage, much more than you or I.
Lets not pressure them, let them quit!!!
No fighter takes it lightly but its thier life/brain not yours.
My best friend was hit by a car 2 years ago and was a coma and he was able to breath on his own and had brain swelling.
They tried to bring him out and each time his swelling would increase as soon as they eased off the meds keeping his brain activity down.
While I wasn't given full details as I wasn't family it's basically very unpredictable and sometimes people do recover from being on life support, unfortunately my friend had some massive swelling of the brain stem overnight which couldn't be helped by removing the skull and died.
He was kept on life support for 2 days while they harvested his organs.
I've read of similar cases since where there has been a full recovery and while I would never begrudge anyone that as its a great thing I can't help but be a little angry that others lived while my friend died. He was 33.
boxing is one of the only sports where getting injured / being unable to continue means you lose.
it's looked down upon becuase of the value of continueing that is exclusive to this sport.
i don't have issues with somebody quitting to save his health, but in boxing you surrender to defeat.
there are plenty of things more important than finishing a boxing match, like being able to walk and talk.
Not really, look at tennis. Novac wasa known quitter but 3 Aus opens later no one cared.
World no1 and all round hero.
Yet he quit because it was a bit too hot.
The 2 mainb sports we play here are Aussie rules and cricket and quitting and more importantly being a wuss isnt excepted at any stage at any level, but ots rarely if ever actually a life or death situation.
Just seems strange that you can wear pads playing football and be scared of a baseball yet youre expected to die in the ring.
Yeah, but youre asking an athlete to make a medical decision on their life arent you ?
Nicky Lauda quit.
He was world champion 6 years later and owned 2 airlines.
JCC v De La Hoya 2
JCC told his corner "it just feels wrong, I feel death in the air"
I just dont see how any of you here can judge anyones courage when you havent even sen never mind, played the worlds most courageous game ??
Q!
After all this time, you people still dont understand boxing!!!
OMG Khan doesnt deserve a Floyd fight !!!
OMG Pac has to avenge jmm and Bradley to deserve a Floyd fight.
OMG!!! are you ****ing retarded ????
Boxing fans are going to watch this fight, we havent waited and *****ed and whinged to streamn this **** in vga graphics.
Boxing fans are going to print out the ****ing posters of this fight and god dam laminate that gtod dam **** to put up on thier first born sons bedroom wall.
Casuals wouldnt know the difference if Pac KOed Bradley,JMM or tito Ortiz's mother. They are going watch this god dam fight!!
Some may even talk about the winner fighting Mundine, but by god they will watch it!!!!
This will do 4mil ppv, it will literally stop the world as in Kim Jon Ill will be ****ing watchng ****!!!
SERiously ?
To the contrary, he just gave his professional opinion based on the facts given to him. What the hell is wrong with people in this thread.
No, If ive learnt one thing in my years, its that having a medical degree can be massively overated, by both the Dr and people asking for advice.
Its the most specialized industry in the world, yet they always have an opinion yet ive spent more years at school that most MDs and trust me, people think im full of ****. Especially on here and they are right.
I have no idea about the outcome of this patient, but trust me. onnly his family would and his neurosurgeon is, like us just guessing an hoping.