Well of course I don't like an early stoppage, but bringing up the McClellan-Benn fight is the best thing to do. Nobody wants to see a beating go on like that. I sure don't enjoy watching clips of Ali and Holmes. I'd rather have a fight stopped too early and too late. Sometimes, boxers need to be saved from themselves. There's no need for a fighter to get beaten senseless and/or killed.
The Benn vs McClellan fight didn't go on too long, it only stopped as the G-Man quit, and that's a fact. The ref should have given him the 8 count and then forced him to box on. People had paid good money to watch the fight that night.
you have a pretty sick sense of humor because obviously this is a joke...i've never enjoyed watching someone get bloodied like that...i was yelling for them to stop the fight when cotto got beat down by pac...when margo beat him down as well...why in the **** would a ref look at a person like that and continue the fight, i have no earthly idea...so no...i don't think it's good at all for the sport and i seriously hope no one else does...
I can assure you that whilst I try to write in an entertaining, sardonic style, this is most definitely not a joke. The ref didn't stop the fights you mention as Cotto was still on feet, throwing the occasional shot i.e. boxing. If Cotto ends up a drooling mess later in life, as least he will know that he didn't quit. Like McClellan.
guys this fat piece of **** has never had a fight in his life .how would he feel if you where near death would he have the same opinion i dont think so.i hate these people that call fighters cowards but have never been in a ring .just **** off
You seem to have got yourself so worked up that you have entirely missed the point of my thread. If you want to call the G-Man a coward because he quit then perhaps you should start a separate thread in the forum? Thank you for your interest in my post though.
There are enough good to great KO's happening, no one should have to die to boost the profile of boxing.
Jesse Vargas, Ola Afolabi, Sasso are the most recent spectacular KO's I have seen. We need better more consistent cards, not tragedies.
Maybe then, to avoid further tragedies, we could allow people who already have brain damage or mental illness to carry on fighting? Oh hold on, that already happens in the case of Evander Holyfield.
I'm sure a Watson vs McClellan fight would draw record PPV figures, purely due to the curiousity factor of such a match up.
everybody loves action fights and KO's
but why would you wanna see a guy die in the ring?
how could in-ring fatalities be good for the sport?
this is a fucked up thread man
The UFC has usurped boxing in terms of PPV numbers for one reason alone - the possibility of brutal KOs as a result of the MMA gloves the fighters use, and because they can legally use knees and elbows to render their opponent comatose. How many of those moronic American teenagers shouting "number ONE" at the cameras do you think have any interest in the idiosyncracies of grappling? Surely everyone does what I do, and forwards through the entire UFC bill, ignoring the tiresome dirge of ground and pound, in the hope of seeing a Brazilian lunatic kicking an American's face off in the Octagon?
I just feel that boxing needs to react to what is a clear threat to it's very existence, and my "forced to box on" rule change could really be the shot in the arm that the sport needs. At no point in my original post did I say I wanted to watch a boxer die in the ring, I just wondered if it would ultimately be good for the sport in terms of raising profile, bigger viewing figures etc. I personally have always preferred a good cabbaging anyway.
It was a reasonable beating, but to call it 'sadistic' is seriously over-egging it. The reason the fight went on so long is directly linked to Wlad's robotic, repetitive style. He usually grinds his opponents down with the jab/right hand one-two, rather than ending it early with some flashy combination. If Chambers had visibly soiled himself in the 12th when the Doctor's bomb landed, then I would rate the fight far higher, but ultimately I would have to agree with your rather limited summary of the fight.
you have a pretty sick sense of humor because obviously this is a joke...i've never enjoyed watching someone get bloodied like that...i was yelling for them to stop the fight when cotto got beat down by pac...when margo beat him down as well...why in the **** would a ref look at a person like that and continue the fight, i have no earthly idea...so no...i don't think it's good at all for the sport and i seriously hope no one else does...
I find it strange that women watch boxing at all, but I don't really want to get into that entirely separate debate in this thread. But I do find it extraordinary when 'fans' (female or otherwise) who claim to love a sport where fighters are honed into fighting machines in 'camps' for 10 or 12 weeks, then unleashed on another human being with the express purpose of rendering them unconscious with their fists, then take issue with one of the combatants being 'bloodied', or taking 'too much' punishment. It's the whole point of the sport. Why was Corrales vs Castillo one of the fights of the decade? It's because they were beating seven bells out of each other every round. Have a look at all of the 'best fights/rounds of all time' lists and you will see that applies to each and every one of them. At least I, and nearly every other proper boxing fan I meet at fights all over the UK has the honesty and decency to admit that they love seeing boxers taking punishment, and a spectacular knock out will even lift them out of the seats in a frenzy of excitement. Boxers know the risks they face, and that's why we love them. If the next American who comes to Britain to fight, is deposited back on the plane in an adult nappy, then so be it. BOX ON.
WTF? this is disgusting why is this thread not deleted? and this wank stain has a green rep?
I have a green rep as i'm not afraid to speak the TRUTH. It's pathetic how people like you try to police these forums, getting people banned or threads deleted just because you don't like what they have to say. Whatever happened to freedom of expression? Every boxing fan I have ever met would agree that Benn vs McClellan or Eubank vs Watson were truly great (in the proper sense of the word) fights, full of drama from start to finish, and then a funny finish to boot. That the G-Man now has about the same brain power as the fighting dogs he used to summarily execute is surely just an exercise in irony. He might have been good at setting dogs on each other, a truly noble talent that one, but unfortunately he wasn't quite so good at absorbing Benn's BRITISH BOMBS.
Hopefully people will stop crying and actually try to look at the important issues raised in the thread, namely i) potentially removing the referee's ability to stop a fighter if a fighter can stand unaided, and ii) allowing boxers who have lost their licence due to brain injury to come back and fight, perhaps in their own dedicated "cabbaged" division? It would seem that boxing controlling bodies have already trialled this approach with Evander Holyfield, so why not open it up to other drooling American fighters?
BOX ON.
Feel free to post my shitty posts in here. Go for it.
Lounge posts dont count.
I couldn't inflict them on other forum members - they know how to access them. But a warning my friends (and workers) - it's a continuous stream of tedious wank.
Now ride your high horse off into the distance before I pick you completely apart. It won't be pretty.
This is why I barely post on this forum anymore. It's just not worth the time to see the first page of NSB filled with pages like this.
Im going to stick to reading the articles from now on. Even looking on NSB just pisses me off. So many stupid idiot kids on here. Just looking to get attention, rather then actually talk about boxing.
You do that, you pompous, self-satisfied little madam.
I had a quick peek at a couple of your historical posts, hoping (given the horrifically patronising tone of your post on this thread) for some sage-like pearls of wisdom. Sadly, all I read was a pile of boring wank.
Now run along and quit - just like Paulie.
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Pick em apart on the internet? Lol... Feel free my man.
I meant verbally you brainless cretin. And then you actually said 'lol', and you did everything for me, you child-like spastic.
Another TKO for the King of the Commode
He's a repeat offender - he quit against Hatton, and he quit against Khan. Maybe he can't handle fighting British fighters? Just a theory of course.
I was embarrassed by Malignaggi last night. He looked like a drag act with those highlights in his hair, but that's an insult to drag acts - they all punch harder than Paulie 'hands of wool' Malignaggi.
A sad night for boxing. Hopefully he'll do the right thing and retire now, and never sully the sport again with that uneducated mouth of his (once it's healed after the pummelling it took yesterday of course).
Malinaggi has never quit. He dropped a deision to Cotto and Buddy Mccgirt threw in the towel against Hatton. Last night he was outmatched in every aspect and was coming forward trying to make it happen until the last minute.
Please refrain from posting if you don't know shit about the subject at hand.
Please refrain from posting if you are either so stupid or one-eyed that you can actually convince yourself that Paula didn't quit last night. All he does is spout drivel prior to fight night, purely to drive ticket sales and ultimately his own wage packet. Come fight night it's the usual story - dress up in drag, block punches with face, then quit towards the end when the going gets tough. An absolute disgrace to the sport.
Fingers crossed the next beating he cops at the hands of the next British prospect removes his power of speech.
Why you hating on Paulie? HIs fights are nearly always interesting to watch. Stop the hate.
No.
Why am I hating a jive-talking quitter with blonde highlights? The question is so idiotic it barely warrants a response.
His fights against Hatton and Khan were worth watching from a purely comedic perspective i.e. it's funny to see a brainless chump get destroyed, but if you find fights that one-sided 'interesting' to watch then I would suggest that your brain power can only be only on a par with Paulie's.
Hopefully he'll killed in his next fight. Only then I will stand corrected on the 'interesting' point.
Buddy threw the towel in against hatton, and the ref stopped it last night...you thick c u n t
Paula was just hiding behind the ref with a limp wrist hanging out - he gave him no choice, having already been warned by the ref at the beginning of the round that the fight was going to be stopped unless he started throwing his "bombs". He QUIT. Did you see him complain when the ref stopped it (a sure sign that a fight has been stopped prematurely)? Of course you didn't.
It a complete disgrace that this uneducated chump gets a forum to spout his mouth off, fooling (idiotic) punters into buying tickets for a seemingly competitive bout, and is then allowed to quit and run off with money, no questions asked. No wonder the sport of boxing is in such bad shape with a drag act without a punch or a heart is considering to be at 'world level'.
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the fact that i dont i give a **** what you think means even more to me. When typing gets me paid I will try a little harder till then **** off. And have a blessed day.
For someone who professes not to care you seem a little upset. Although it's not easy to decipher from your child-like meanderings. My wife's family looks after a Down's Syndrome child, and if she had come up with the mindless drivel that was your first post I would have witheld her dog food for 24 hours - minimum.
It's so sad to see Lacy these days. The last confirmed whereabouts I heard were of him working the 'popcorn chicken beat' at a Saint Petersburg, FL branch of KFC. Sadly, it would seem that Lacy had to be leashed up by his ankles to the deep fat fryer as he was often found wandering listlessly around the car park at the back on account of the appalling brain damage he suffered at the hands of Joe 'Hands of Glass' Calzaghe.
Tragic that the sport of boxing has left him to rot in this way. Although I did hear he does make really excellent popcorn chicken, so maybe he has found his calling. It's not like he was very good at boxing.
Popcorn chicken??? What on earth is that?!
Apparently Lacy's popcorn chicken is absolutely outstanding (if he hasn't drooled on it):
http://www.kfc.com/menu/chicken_popcorn.asp
As I have said many times before, Calzaghe has RETIRED Lacy. Regardless of whether we have to watch 2 or 3 more comically bad performances like last night or not, the end result will be the same: he has been RETIRED.
He's a one-dimensional bodybuilder with no skills. I wasn't even that excited about Calzaghe's performance, all this talk of it being a 'career-defining' fight was a joke. It's just proof of what a poor state the division is in that he was considered a talent. He'll be flipping burgers before the year is out.
America isn't the capital of the world and never will be.
We don't throw bottles either, some people 20 odd years ago did though. If you bring up such ancient history you're certainly on weak ground.
Mate, it's probably not even worth expending the energy on such a juvenile, arrogant viewpoint. Apparently a 'country' is the 'capital' of the world, work that one out: so stupid and ignorant, it's frankly laughable. America is the least respected and most despised country on earth, in history. But I don't think these people watch the news.
You've already made him look stupid, twice. Actually, it's fun, let's continue.
...and then there's that tie.
...and his writing.
Not until he beats Mayweather.. which he wouldn't.
He would work him for 12 rounds like Corley. Corley had Gayweather in trouble, Witter could have fought 64 rounds without breaking sweat.
Zab Judah disagrees...
Witter fought Judah on NINE days notice. And he was a vastly less experienced pro than he is today.
Clearly P4P No.1. Mayweather just ducks everybody (Magarito anyone?) and fights bums like Gatti and Shamba Mitchell. Wow, how impressive those wins were.
1. Witter
2. Hatton
3. Audley Harrison
You weren't watching ITV4 in Britain where Witter blatantly called out Gayweather. I think they tried to bleep him out but he called him a "money bitch from the ghetto".
witter didnt call out floyd at all,i checked an there was no boxing on itv4, then i listened 2 his interview on 5live and he didnt mention him, you and your alts need 2 grow up
I'd re-check. I'm looking at the listings now.
Well it proves right there that witter did not mention floyds name. All he want was to fight hatton next.
Anyone capable of reading what I said would realise that he didn't call out PBF on Sky Sports post-fight. It was on ITV4 later in the evening when he was in the dressing room. There was a lot of bleeps as I believed he kept comparing PBF to Gerald Mclellan. I'm an expert at lip reading, and that's definitely what he said: I made out the words "G-Man" "Mclellan" "Wheelchair" and "Nappies".