I think if you made the other sports unavailable and there was basically only one sport (boxing) they would dominate mainly because of the numbers involved. 300 million men all boxing growing up since they were kids? I'm sure the top thousand would be excellent and just fill up the ranks. You could probably take anY weak boxing country like India for example, set up gyms everywhere, ban cricket and soccer, and have 100s of millions of kids just start boxing and within a few generations they would be kickin a$$.
After not following the sport for a couple years I feel like I'm walking into a pretty exciting time with PAC-rios, Alvarado-provednikov, and the Floyd-Canelo with matthysse-Garcia super card all within the next few months.
I don't think it has anything to do with conscience. My guess is he's not taking his "power pellets" anymore, possibly for health reasons, and he knows he won't be as effective anymore. At the same time, he knows the difference they make and doesn't want to go into any fights clean while the other guy might be cranking and get a taste of his own medicine, hence the drug testing.
Conscience might be something like "what the heck am I doing? I've got a ton of money, a wife and children yet I am currently dedicating my existence to hurting strangers. I am putting my family under a tremendous amount of completely unnecessary stress at this point. I am getting punched, knocked out and straining my body...and for what? To make more $ when i already have $100,000,000 put away? to feed my enormous ego? It's never going to be enough, isnt it?...maybe it's time to hang up the gloves immediately and be a better husband, father, and a positive role model for the people who look up to me"
If it is actually a boxing match rjj wins easy imo.
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I think it's gonna be a boxing match tbh. The UFC matched the flat footed, older toney up against probably their best HW wrestler at the time because they knew it was a bad matchup and the whole thing was intended to make mma appear superior to boxing.
Bellator likes standup fighters and Viacom who owns them is going to start airing kickboxing in the fall and almost had a deal to show boxing last year too. IMO they have no interest in trying to make make 1 sport appear better than the other but are more interested in bringing those fans together, and a boxing match with Roy jones winning would go a long way in making boxing fans more receptive to their channel (sp1ke tv) and the various fight programming theyre are going to show on there.
This article here says its boxing in multiple places
‘RAMPAGE’ JACKSON, ROY JONES JR. TARGETED FOR PPV BOXING BOUT IN 2013
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BY MIKE WHITMAN
JUL 25, 2013
A cross-promotional boxing bout between Bellator light heavyweight Quinton Jackson and former multi-time world boxing titlist Roy Jones Jr. is expected to take place on pay-per-view in late 2013.
A source with knowledge of the matchup verified the planned booking with *******.com on Thursday. An exact date for the confrontation and the corresponding weight class could not be immediately confirmed, but the fight is expected to be announced next week during ****e TV’s broadcast of Bellator 97. MMAJunkie.com first reported the bout.
Jackson, 35, signed with Bellator last month with plans to also join the TNA Wrestling roster in a deal akin to Muhammad Lawal’s. “Rampage” exited the UFC earlier this year amid complaints about his treatment from the Zuffa-owned organization, which he joined in 2007. Jackson won the UFC light heavyweight title that same year by knocking out Chuck Liddell but relinquished the belt in 2008 to Forrest Griffin. More recently, Jackson departed the UFC on the heels of three straight losses, dropping a January decision to Glover Teixeira in his final fight with the promotion.
Jones, 44, is regarded by many as one of the finest fighters in the history of boxing and was long linked to a potential matchup with former UFC middleweight king Anderson Silva. The 44-year-old began his boxing career in 1989 and went on to win world titles at 160, 168 and 175 pounds before winning the WBA heavyweight championship from John Ruiz in 2003. The Florida native won 49 of his first 50 fights but has gone just 7-7 in his last 14 fights. Jones did win his last two contests, however, winning the UBO cruiserweight belt in 2011 before besting Polish talent Pawel Glazewski last year.
Watched the first 6 or 7 rounds with the sound off and thought the fight was extremely close. If I was a judge I would have scored a few of those rounds 10-10 and highly doubt Camelo would have been ahead by more than 2 points if at all for the first half of the fight.
Before the fight: tyson-Lewis, rahman-Lewis 2, Hamed-Barrera,
During the fight: Rahman-Lewis 1, Mosley-de la Hoya 1, gatti-ward 1, morales-barerra 1, Mosley-Forrest 1, toney-holyfield, De la Hoya-Vargas, toney-Ruiz
Watch Denis Lebedev vs Guillermo Jones if you want to see brutality that is reminiscent of stuff unseen since the 1950's.
I'll watch that one first then :headbang:
Watched both rios Alvarado fights, berto vs Ortiz, maidana vs Lopez, rigondeuax vs donaire, khan vs Garcia, and matthysse vs Lamont Peterson. Damn there's some exciting boxers out there right now! And I don't remember seeing a division so stacked like 140 is right now
WatchHopkins vs rjj 2
Just watched the 1st round and the video is 53 minutes long...I strongly suspect its gonna be a snoozer of a fight, you trolling?
It's clear in a lot of his fights that he is toying with his prey.
I got the feeling that he is good at making the other guy fight at his tempo (which is very slow) and then all the sudden he throws very quick, explosive, and hard shots that are totally out of sync with the rest of his general rhythm or pace and this might give fighters problems. I honestly think its an awkward rhythm thing as opposed to him toying, what do you guys think?
Here she is....the infamous C.J. Ross. Somehow I couldn't even imagine watching the fights with her never mind getting her insights on the sweet science.
http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/d/d5/CJRoss.jpg
Just watched canelo vs Lopez, the 1st half of the trout fight, and the first few rounds against mosely. IMHO he won't even be able to touch Floyd. 1 punch at a time, extremely slow feet, questionable gas tank...I just don't see Saul winning unless he just focuses on the body and at some point lands one or two big ones. I got Floyd by tko (ref stoppage, Canelos eye is swollen shut and just getting potshotted)
If I was that ugly I would liv the rest of my life in the sewer
Lol. Maybe he already moved to the sewer and the reason he's so lean is from swimming around down there and living on rat meat he cooks over a little fire.