Opportunist Champions - Lennox, Tyson, Floyd

[BennyST]

It is interesting this business, forgetting the technical inaccuracies which are unimportant, about Mayweather lightening his attitude and offering a bigger solit to Pacquiao in light of hearing about his injury prior to the fight...

I've never seen any proof of that so will have to take it with a pinch of salt even though I want that to be true. But honestly, knowing the extreme scum that Floyd is, I would not be the slightest bit surprised!!

As for the rest of your post it is in my opinion- handwavable garbage!

Your agenda against LEnnox clouds your judgement and Michael Spinks was finished the day he even heard the name Mike Tyson, long before any alleged "injury" LOL

What is with this utterly absurd revisionist history?

You're actually trying to say you believe the only reason the fight got signed is because Floyd suddenly found out about an arguably non existent injury from six years earlier, or that hadn't even happened at that stage, depending on whose bull**** from the Pac camp you believe?

That is clearly complete bull****. It is very easily proven to be false.

[Elroy1]

What is with this utterly absurd revisionist history?

You're actually trying to say you believe the only reason the fight got signed is because Floyd suddenly found out about an arguably non existent injury from six years earlier, or that hadn't even happened at that stage, depending on whose bull**** from the Pac camp you believe?

That is clearly complete bull****. It is very easily proven to be false.

WHHHHOAAAA there me matey!!

Calm ya friggin farm and give me a shot here!!

Ok ya read it a bit extreme. Now I definitely am in the Pacquiao camp all the way here to be sure okay, we ain't ever gonna see eye to eye my nig..

But I never claimed I BELIEVED in all of that.. In fact I very cautiously side stepped the issue beautifully by my assertion that it was basically false until proven reality, as all such allegations should be!!

I simply said I believe that I would not be SURPRISED if it was true which is a far cry different.

I mean come on, Floyd is one of the most controversial jokes of boxing, that's his legacy now! Surely you can see that!!

[juggernaut666]

I have to disagree on the different outcome. Had the cut not happened, Vitali was going to win. I thought it was so strange too, since I never saw him cut in another fight. He was ahead on points and consistently landed on Lewis over and over. This wasn't a Rachman or McCall type situation.

Yea thats what i said.

[- Ram Raid -]

LOL..........some howlers there

Really? Let's have a little look see shall we?

First point that corrected your nonsense on Lewis:

Associated Press:

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Ty...0eb0abc5fe9841

L.A Times:

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-...n-fights-lewis

Las Vegas Sun:

http://lasvegassun.com/news/1996/sep...acating-crown/

New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/14/sp...yson-bout.html

Chicago Tribune:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...n-lewis-claims

Second point that corrected your nonsense on Hatton:

The Sweet Science:

http://www.thesweetscience.com/colum...t-kostya-tszyu

The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...-Pacquiao.html

The Ring:

http://******.craveonline.com/news/3...10-years-later (ring tv)

So that begs a question. Can you back up any of the statements that you're making?. . .


. . . No need to answer. The question's rhetorical.

[sonnyboyx2]

Really? Let's have a little look see shall we?

First point that corrected your nonsense on Lewis:

Associated Press:

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Ty...0eb0abc5fe9841

L.A Times:

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-...n-fights-lewis

Las Vegas Sun:

http://lasvegassun.com/news/1996/sep...acating-crown/

New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/14/sp...yson-bout.html

Chicago Tribune:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...n-lewis-claims

Second point that corrected your nonsense on Hatton:

The Sweet Science:

http://www.thesweetscience.com/colum...t-kostya-tszyu

The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...-Pacquiao.html

The Ring:

http://******.craveonline.com/news/3...10-years-later (ring tv)

So that begs a question. Can you back up any of the statements that you're making?. . .


. . . No need to answer. The question's rhetorical.

I never clicked a link... i can put a thousand of those up which all claim different.. I was alive and walking around at the times, i was glued to the sport, i know exactly how it all unfolded.

[sonnyboyx2]

What is with this utterly absurd revisionist history?

You're actually trying to say you believe the only reason the fight got signed is because Floyd suddenly found out about an arguably non existent injury from six years earlier, or that hadn't even happened at that stage, depending on whose bull**** from the Pac camp you believe?

That is clearly complete bull****. It is very easily proven to be false.

is that why Timothy Bradley is saying, "He is gonna target Pacquiao's shoulder with his punches"...

[- Ram Raid -]

I never clicked a link... i can put a thousand of those up which all claim different.. I was alive and walking around at the times, i was glued to the sport, i know exactly how it all unfolded.

Alive and walking around! In 1996! You ****in' sage!!

[sonnyboyx2]

Alive and walking around! In 1996! You ****in' sage!!

you were not even a twinkle in your daddy's eye back in 1996 boy!

[- Ram Raid -]

you were not even a twinkle in your daddy's eye back in 1996 boy!

And you can put up a thousand sources that all back that claim up can't you, 'cause you know how it all unfolded!?! Not that you're going to off course. A man that was around to witness the birth of the Spice Girls, who was there when Britney went to number one and can remember with ruddy faced glee back to yesteryear when Amir Khan was at the Olympics . . . all that time ago! Well. A man like that? Who was alive and walking around at the time? Shucks. He'd be like a modern day Kane. Walking the electronic sands of cyberspace imparting wisdom to the rash and foolhardy.

A man like that. He'd have no need for facts. Or courtesy. Or respect. He could barge into other threads with his John Wayne swagger and slander dead posters. Offend those that held him dear. Spittoon gibberish onto the boots of the reasonable and smile knowing that no one has a clue what he's talking about because none of it makes any god damn sense. A man like that aye. A man like Sonnyboy. A man that was there, glued, all the way back in the year 1996.

So what gave the game up? How did you suss that I'm only seven years old? Was it wisdom acrued from being old enough to watch reruns of Columbo? From knowing Ali as the man who lit the Olympic flame? Or maybe it was me. I gave the game away didn't I? Trying desperately to divert attention away from my inadequacies by trapezing out age as a substitute for actual real lived authority? Or was it my purile posting style, suggestive of a bored, spurned teenager crashing forums where adults come for reasoned debate? One up for the jilted generation!

I should have known you'd find out sooner or later. All that wisdom. How could I have hoped to out hussle a man who was there. Twenty years ago. Watching. Constructing his own narrative of events that he and he alone has the intelligence to understand. Facts! Ha! The folly if fools. Who needs facts when you can flabbergast and stupefy? And who needs a place for intelligent civil debate when we can all sit back and buy a ticket to the Sonnyboy Show?

Is it bonafide? Or is it a ridiculous sullied piss stained mattress conjob?

I wouldn't even know what that refers to, being just a twinkle an' all. All those moons ago.

[sonnyboyx2]

And you can put up a thousand sources that all back that claim up can't you, 'cause you know how it all unfolded!?! Not that you're going to off course. A man that was around to witness the birth of the Spice Girls, who was there when Britney went to number one and can remember with ruddy faced glee back to yesteryear when Amir Khan was at the Olympics . . . all that time ago! Well. A man like that? Who was alive and walking around at the time? Shucks. He'd be like a modern day Kane. Walking the electronic sands of cyberspace imparting wisdom to the rash and foolhardy.

A man like that. He'd have no need for facts. Or courtesy. Or respect. He could barge into other threads with his John Wayne swagger and slander dead posters. Offend those that held him dear. Spittoon gibberish onto the boots of the reasonable and smile knowing that no one has a clue what he's talking about because none of it makes any god damn sense. A man like that aye. A man like Sonnyboy. A man that was there, glued, all the way back in the year 1996.

So what gave the game up? How did you suss that I'm only seven years old? Was it wisdom acrued from being old enough to watch reruns of Columbo? From knowing Ali as the man who lit the Olympic flame? Or maybe it was me. I gave the game away didn't I? Trying desperately to divert attention away from my inadequacies by trapezing out age as a substitute for actual real lived authority? Or was it my purile posting style, suggestive of a bored, spurned teenager crashing forums where adults come for reasoned debate? One up for the jilted generation!

I should have known you'd find out sooner or later. All that wisdom. How could I have hoped to out hussle a man who was there. Twenty years ago. Watching. Constructing his own narrative of events that he and he alone has the intelligence to understand. Facts! Ha! The folly if fools. Who needs facts when you can flabbergast and stupefy? And who needs a place for intelligent civil debate when we can all sit back and buy a ticket to the Sonnyboy Show?

Is it bonafide? Or is it a ridiculous sullied piss stained mattress conjob?

I wouldn't even know what that refers to, being just a twinkle an' all. All those moons ago.

yep, you hit the nail on the head. But the songsheet reply was not warranted, you should have just blurted out your age to save time.

Question for you:- should Lewis have stood aside and accepted $4 million, or should he have said, "No Thanks" and accepted $13 million and a guaranteed world title shot?