I think a gift is "man that was a close round that boxer A may have nicked", but the judges gave it to boxer B. I thought Pacquiao vs Marquez II was a gift, but Pacquiao vs. Bradley was a robbery.
This won't do anything. Too many people and too much of an intense camp is going to burn him out or make him uncomfortable, IMO. Stick to what you know.
Honestly, I don't rank Tyson that high based on what he accomplished. However, I have always said that he had the greatest potential out of any fighter that I have ever seen. Rooney once said that he could've easily been 100-0, and I believe it.
Injuries or sickness. I can't remember which, but it was a medical issue. Looking back on his career he looked okay. Not like we missed the next "legend", but it's heartbreaking to see a promising fighter lose his way to earn money over that.
Being outboxed doesn’t just mean you get out jabbed. If you’re landing punches then you’re boxing in some way. Khan had no defense, forget the chin, he gets hit with such flush shots. I’ve never seen a master boxer get hit with so many clean shots and so often. I get it, he’s fast and throws good combinations. He has offense. But he is by no means a master boxer
No he gave up IBF so he could fight Cooney instead of Tucker for a lot more$.And he fought Tyson pretty close after tourney.And it was 2nd fight that was debateable.(I Had Spinks up by 1)And I could not disagree more about him being scared.Really watch how he fights even after KD he COMES to Tyson and try catching him with THE JINX(overhand right).But Mike hits him 1st
I used to box, and I'm not pulling that "only I get it!" card, lol! You may be right, maybe he wasn't scared, but I don't think it has to do with that overhand right. Fighters do that when they're desperate and the other guy is wild, so I think he was just hoping that he would get him with it.
I forgot about the Tucker thing, I think they were doing a unification tournament and Spinks probably wanted to cash out and knew he would get the winner. Would've been nice to see Spinks against Evander back then, no?
Tyson wasn't going to lose that night against anybody. It was one of his nights and one of his best (and probably only real) training camps.
I thought Holmes beat Spinks pretty clearly in one of the fights, but I can't remember if it was the rematch or the first one.
He was timid against Tyson. I know he's a boxer, and I know when there's a widely embraced opinion we have to have people argue against it, but I think it's true. He was frightened. Didn't he throw out the IBF title just to get away from him?
Maybe two judges have to agree about a round for it to count? Would have to change the 10-point criteria I would think, and might result in more draws, but hopefully less oblivious scores? Just my opinion
If you only score KDs, then Pacquiao vs Mosley would be scored a draw. I think you're on to something with the whole "remove the subjective" element, but I don't see how this exact idea helps. There's plenty of dominant fighters that take a flash KD while dominating a fight.
I don’t agree that Keith is ducking Spence unless he doesn’t fight him within his next three fights, but I got mad respect for the dude that actually said it to Keith. I may not agree with him, but props to him putting pressure on a fighter in person. I probably wouldn’t do it, haha!
Haymon works with Yormack so he gets a good deal to partner with the Barclay center. Wouldn’t be as sustainable, at least in my opinion, to have fights all over the place given the partnership he has
Maybe an odd question, but who’s job is it to contact who? Doesn’t the A-side always contact the b-side? I don’t remember Maidana or Berto sending mayweather a contract
I don’t see the big deal. Perhaps Rafael sounded a bit disingenuous with that last tweet, and I get that. But he never said anything personally disrespectful to Spike, he was just saying what happened. Maybe a bit condescending, but still just talking about what happened.
Undisputed may not be a good idea, IMO. Can you imagine there being only one champion per division and him only giving a contender a shot at a world title once or maybe twice a year. With how many big names there are now it would just take fighters way too long for title shots and would cause top contenders to be inactive waiting for their opportunity
Top rank ratings (aside from the pacquiao) fight have done similar to PBC ratings on ESPN. Why would ESPN. Make a new deal with TR because they want their library.
The library is more valuable to espn than the actual live fights because they can pick any fight they want to broadcast which means they can pick the best fights and because results are already predetermined they know when the fights going to end.
ESPN new deal hasn't been made a big deal about because Top rank didn't get the best deal.
PBC was primarily a time buy, whereas Top Rank’s deal is a different model. In that sense it’s like comparing apples to oranges