what's so special about micky ward. i mean there's a lot of boxers out there with great stories to make. i mean are they just putting the white boxer in the movies becuz whites are more marketable? i mean come on there's a lot of stories out there. what about the gatti, the dela hoya, the mayweather, etc. come on now
You do know Gatti was a white guy to right?
Mickey in the Boston Herald today on Gatti:
"Just today I was online and I was looking at him," Ward said. "It gave me the chills. He could be with me on this big tour, the two of us laughing and having fun. Everything can be taken from you in a minute. I liked the way he fought as hard as he could. He wasn't a punk. I wanted to kill him in the ring but I loved him. There were a lot of guys with way more talent than us but no one had more heart. He was me."
Tell me which fight Margarito ever cheated in? None whatsoever. If you can't distinguish attempting to cheat and proven to have cheated then you need to get your head checked. Kellerman and Cotto's fans need to stop acting like their suspicion is a fact that came down from heaven.
He is still Cotto's daddy. And oh yeah, Mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley-mosley will be the comeback everytime someone says Tony is still his daddy.
You're right. Nobody knows for sure if he cheated before the Mosley fight, but, for fvcks sake, don't you kind of have to assume he did? Especially when you look at how the Cotto fight went and you look at the way Cintron reacted to his punches. Seems naive to take that point-of-view.
He has never cheated. He, or atleast the cunt that wrapped his hands, ATTEMPTED to cheat against Mosley but was caught.
And looking at how his opponents ate his punches? Getting punched in the face does not feel fookin good mate. You should try it out one time, like me old lad did in a local boxing gym and never went back again.
So, it's not naive. Cotto fanboys are because they crucify Margarito without giving two shits about the FACTS.
Not a Cotto fanboy and I've been punched in the face many times bro. Nobody was a bigger fan of Marg's than me after the Cotto fight. Thought he was an old-school, blood-and-guts type who could beat a more talented opponent on sheer will alone. Then he got caught and now I see him for what he really is. A dirtbag. Why you want to go to the mat for a guy like that is beyond me. He got caught trying to walk into a ring with plaster on his hands. Any benefit of the doubt goes out the window after that.
Yep.
The extreme ones protest outside the Houses of Parliament with signs saying 'Death to those who insult Islam'. Which is illegal. But they don't get arrested or cautioned.
Another example. British soldiers returning from Iraq are told not to wear their medals or uniform in public because it might offend the Muslims.
Makes me sick.
political correctness is going to be the death of us all.
Demise.
The difference is the obvious racial tendencies that you have.
C'mon man, you really don't see a difference between Italian immigrants and Pakistani immigrants. I don't live in England but I don't remember the last time I heard of an angry mob of Italian Catholics protesting in the streets of London. I also doubt Italian immigrants are putting much of a strain on the English public welfare system.
Paul Williams schooled him W T F did you even watch the fight? i hate Margarito as well.. but that was a close fight..
But these are facts..
Margo>Cintron wraps or no wraps
Margarito was hitting Cotto all night and taking bombs to his face all night to, Complete opposite of the Shane/Margo fight. Shane wasn't getting hit at all really and he hit Margo to the BODY and hard as well as the head. Cotto was tiring from backing off and fending of Margo all night, it was a terrible fight by him. I personally think with Paris or none Margarito beats Cotto if Cotto uses that gameplan 10 x out of 10.
Saying Margo>Cintron wraps or no wraps is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Getting hit with those things is an absolute game-changer and all you guys who want to minimize the effect it must have on the other fighter either aren't thinking clearly or are blinded by man-love for Marg.
I absolutely loved the guy after the Cotto fight. He seemed like an old-school, blood-and-guts type warrior. Now, I just think the guy is a scumbag plain and simple.
It's not Europe getting overwhelmed, it's us.
We joined the EU for a better market. But we lose £100 billion a year in trade because of it. We have quotas on how much milk/resources we can produce.
It's all the shitty countries that have recently joined the EU like Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia etc that are coming in to Britain.
Britain is the most overcrowded country in EU. While the EU turns in to the Soviet Union.
Don't you also have a massive, ever-growing muslim population?
Yup! We call them republicans. They drum up hatred when things are not in their favor. When in actuality, they are the main culprits who hire illegal immigrants and profit off their citizenship status.
What simple-minded drivel.
It's not really happening in the UK. The BNP are a joke and will never get any serious power. They are just ignorant old men playing at being Nazis.
I'm American, so I don't know anything about the BNP. They sound like the Aryan Brotherhood in this country. But isn't there a kernel of truth in what they say? Aren't you and really Europe as a whole getting slowly overwhelmed by immigration? It seems as though Europe is slowly losing it's identity as a western civilization. Seems kind of sad to me.
What world Title did Tokker Puwell hold??
How about the dreaded Peter Manfredo..What world Titles did he hold.??
Fvck outta here.
The guy DUCKED Antwun Echols.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don't really think Joe C sweated Antwun f**cking Echols for a half a second do you? You can't be that stupid.
To the crackheads who know nothing about Calzaghe other then he is white and italian and know nothing about boxing except the skin color of a fighter. He beat 6-8 former world champions, and defended his belt 21 times. And in his first fight at lhw, beat the best lhw Hopkins. And its funny how racist ****s bring up the fact Hopkins is old but not the fact that Hopkins was rated the best lhw and hopkins has been beating up younger fighters for years. Yeah, racist crackheads try to discredit calzaghe. You know how many fighters have beaten 6-8 former world champions? Thats right very few, and you know how many fighters have successfully defended the belt 21 or more times in a row? Very few again.
great post
Name 1 future HOF fighter Joe faced in their prime?
In his last handful of fights he surrounded the loss to Calzaghe with a clear win over Winky, a serious beatdown of Tarver, and a Calzagheover Lacy like schooling of Pavlik. I don't think Bernard was too far gone from his prime if at all when he fought Joe.
I can't understand how people can shit on Calzaghe. The guy has fought all-comers for over a decade. He's prevailed in the face on some very stiff tests (Kessler, Hopkins & Reid - who is highly underrated). He works hard in the ring and gives the crowd plenty of entertainment. His chin is superb and his powers of recovery after a big punch are nothing short of astonishing. His technique is highly unusual but incredibly effective. I don't think I've seen as ADAPTABLE a boxer in many years (he can fight inside, outside, to the body and head, his footwork is exceptional as is his timing). He's super-fit (how many 35yos are able to throw 1,000 punches per fight?) and his face has barely a scratch on it.
If you're looking for opinions don't bother with the usual group of NSB bullshitters and their rabid anti-Calzaghe diatribe. Read and listen to those of the people Calzaghe fought and beat - Jones, Kessler, Hopkins & Eubank. These guys know a good fighter when they see one and all are of the opinion that Calzaghe is the goods.
Joe has earned the right to be labelled one of the greats. I certainly don't begrudge it him.
nationality and skin color. simple as that.
WTF. B-hop was 43 years old and past his prime when he fought calzaghe. any reasonable calzaghe fan knows that.
why because you say so. The results say otherwise
I am thinking of getting a Muhammad Ali tat on my rear shoulder blade. I have searched google, tattoo sights, and everywhere with no luck. Anybody got any pics I can use?
Do yourself a favor and don't get a tattoo of that jackass. Get one of Smoking Joe instead.
pavlick..is..a..good..fighter..but..i..just..cant..get..in..to..his..fights..couldnt..beat..a,over.the.hill..hopkins..hell..never..shake..that..fight.
Fvck's the matter with you? What's with all the dots?
Shane's nose is screwed-up..that's why he talks like that..he's far from punchy.
He says he's having it fixed when he retires.
C'mon man. The nose might be the reason his voice sounds the way it does but it aint the reason the words don't flow as easily anymore.
Let Me Get This Straight...
-Haye moves up from cruiser, beats Monte Barrett (who was not ranked in the top 25 by ANY boxing organization prior to signing to fight Haye).
-Haye screams for and gets a fight with Wlad.
-Haye talks garbage about Wlad being a pu$$y for months, says he will decapitiate him.
-Haye pulls out with 2 weeks to go with a SORE BACK. NOT A STRAIN, NOT A PULL, NOT A HERNIATED DISK, A SORE BACK.
-Wlad finds the only heavyweight in the world not named Klitschko in the top 3 ranked heavyweights in the world in Ruslan Chagaev.
-Wlad will fight Chagaev, making himself the Ring and Linear heavyweight champion!
AND YOU MORONS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? IS IT RACISM? IS IT STUPIDITY? IS IT BOTH?
Definitely both.
Cotto's camp and Nevada officials WATCHED as Tony's hands were taped.
YOU should use your head.
Yeah you're right. The Shane fight was the first time he used plaster. Wake up dude.