Dude, you have idiots who believe that Logan Paul & Conor McGregor were "beating" Floyd Mayweather. ::rolleyes:
All of y'all are what in pro wrestling they call "marks".
Floyd, Fury, & Usyk wanted easy paydays, so they they let novice fighters "hang" with them, so marks like you will continue to pay for said exhibitions.
I can't believe people are taking this seriously.
It was obviously a "worked shoot" so that there can be more of these "exhibitions" that convince stup1d people to give up their hard earned money..
It's literally the basis for pro wrestling.
I can't believe you guys are taking this performance seriously
Usyk clearly didn't.
He admitted as much
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https://twitter.com/usykaa/status/2058551690232566060?s=20
Man, I can't believe that people are falling for this "worked shoot" nonsense that boxers/mma fighters are pulling.
If the boxing blows out the MMA guy, they won't get another easy payday.
We saw when Joshua fought Ngannou, that when a boxer has the attitude of "kill or be killed", he just takes the guy out.
Then, we saw when Joshua fought Jake Paul, how he played with his food & didn't try to cut off the ring & let Paul survive for a while before finally taking them out.
Put Voerhaven in the ring with Moses Itauma or Daniel Dubois & he'll get brutalized in a round or 2 because they're hungry & have something to prove.
Great article.
Spinks always gets devalued by Tyson haters, who call him a "blown up cruiser".
Guy beat Holmes 2x & ended his reign & Cooney, but apparently wasn't a "real" heavyweight.
On top of being a top 5 fighter of the '80s.
This is the compromise we make as fans & especially fighters.
Both of us are participating in the destruction of someone's ability to live life in the future.
Us, as observers, the fighters, as participants.
I don't know what to say or do about it.
I love boxing, it's my favorite sport, & on some level, these guys are consenting adults who choose to be involved in this.
I just only hope that medicine can become evolved enough to mitigate the destruction these guys are doing to their brains.
Former NFL legend Joe Namath claims that he's reversed a lot of his brain damage with hyperbaric chamber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpOPRa4X0A
My least favorite fighters are guys who play the whole "A side/B side" game & use that as an excuse to not fight the best competition.
Also, the folks who believe in "letting fights marinate" and try to wait for their biggest threats to be beat by somebody else or get old.
Usually, they end up fighting people worst & less popular than the supposed "B-side" fighter, but you're not supposed to think about that.
The more I learn about that era, the more respect I get for Ali for all of the bullets(literally & figuratively) that he dodged in his time.
Dude was GOAT
If there was any justice in the world DB would be the biggest boxing star in America right now because he would've already torn a hole in Canelo & or Bivol or Beterbiev, but the politics of boxing keep getting in the way.
This is why we can't have nice things
I hate to say it, but he's right.
Everybody else is looking out for themselves, the fighters might as well, too.
Hell, Floyd just proved you can't make enough money
Ray Robinson
2 division world champion (Welterweight, Middleweight)
6 time world champion
Recognized as lineal in 2 divisions
Won world championship in 2 decades (1940s, 1950s)
Beat 18 world champions during his career
Manny Pacquiao:
8 division world champion including 4 of the original divisions (Flyweight, Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight)
12 time world champion
Recognized as lineal in 5 divisions
Won world championship in 4 decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
Beat 22 world champions during his career
Ray Robinson had a 91-fight unbeaten streak, but many of those were against tomato cans. Pacquiao actually beat more world champions (22 vs 18) at a time when boxing is much more globalized, which means tougher competition.
If Pacquiao defeats Mayweather in their rematch in September, does it solidify him as the GOAT of all time?
Pacquiao beat more world champions because there's 5 world champions in each division if you count The Ring/Lineal champions, over the past 20 years
There was only 1 world champion in Robinson's day.
If anything the fact that Robinson beat 18 in a world with only 1 champion per division only shows how much greater he was than anybody else
During that 91 fight streak, he beat HOFs Henry Armstrong, Sammy Angott, Jake Lamotta, Bobo Olsen, & Kid Gavilan
He was also fighting a lot more, which is a lot harder than fighting a few times a year, like modern fighters.
Well duh,
The reason we all thought Crawford would win is because we saw Canelo had slipped drastically.
Nobody in their right mind would pick against the #1 fighter in the world when he's fighting a guy essentially from 3 weight divisions back.