Opinions on Skelton.. this is why people shouldn't post/at least make threads in NSB

[Super Flyweight]

Let me see if I can grasp what you’re getting at here. By your standards, if I watch a fighter—in this case Skelton—once and determine he’s without talent and has no future as a boxer, I’m an idiot if I share this view with my fellow boxing fans. However, had I watched the same boxer three times and made the same determination, in your book I’m legit. Is that it?

Perhaps it’s unfair to judge your criteria when you’ve chosen this sorry excuse for a fight to illustrate it but if you really need to watch Skelton fight three times before you can form an opinion of him, maybe you need to rethink your manifesto. Even better, maybe you should put some thought into the apparent fact that you’re in total agreement with the assessment made by all these “schoolboys who haven’t done their homework.” It might shed some light on the quality of your studies.

Your noobish sarcasm is noted, and you're kind of halfway there.

What I'm suggesting is that this place should be a forum for people who know boxing, not for people who don't. It's fine for kids to make their minds up about Skelton on one fight - as you rightly pointed out, he's **** - but why am I reading that as if it's news? "yo ,, skelton isn't a gud boxer, lmao". No ****

[Super Flyweight]

.. oh, of course, having this forum filled by people making judgements about a fighter based on ONE performance isn't a good thing. I mean, that goes without saying, right?

What if people judged current fighters on the following:


Mayweather on the first Castillo performance only?

Calzaghe on the Salem fight only?

Barrera on the first Pacquaio fight (or the second) only?

[KLUGMAN]

.. oh, of course, having this forum filled by people making judgements about a fighter based on ONE performance isn't a good thing. I mean, that goes without saying, right?

What if people judged current fighters on the following:


Mayweather on the first Castillo performance only?

Calzaghe on the Salem fight only?

Barrera on the first Pacquaio fight (or the second) only?

Conversely, you could watch every single second of Buster Douglas' career leading up to Tyson and never guess the outcome of that fight no matter how astute an observer of boxing you might be. Ditto Sanders/Klitschko, Baldomir/Judah, etc. So I'm grappling with your point. It sounds like you have a generalized beef with knuckleheads. Who doesn't? But you're falling into a philosophical trap: illogic always beats logic, hands down, because the former doesn't recognize the latter and the latter gets spent trying to expose the former. In other words, your cause may not be wrong, but it is most definitely lost.

[dmaclv]

Conversely, you could watch every single second of Buster Douglas' career leading up to Tyson and never guess the outcome of that fight no matter how astute an observer of boxing you might be. Ditto Sanders/Klitschko, Baldomir/Judah, etc. So I'm grappling with your point. It sounds like you have a generalized beef with knuckleheads. Who doesn't? But you're falling into a philosophical trap: illogic always beats logic, hands down, because the former doesn't recognize the latter and the latter gets spent trying to expose the former. In other words, your cause may not be wrong, but it is most definitely lost.

damn man that's deep, cuttin to the core righ there. Super is just flabbergasted righ now, you jus porin it on him.

[Steak]

holy ****, this fight happened already? wow, must have been pretty bad. Ive heard nothing about it.

now that Chagaev is done with this waste of time title defence, maybe he can fight someone worthwhile. the winner of Liakhovich-Valuev is probebly up next...which is ok to me, although it probebly could be better. hopefully he can actually fight Wlad in unification bout sometime.

[Guest]

Conversely, you could watch every single second of Buster Douglas' career leading up to Tyson and never guess the outcome of that fight no matter how astute an observer of boxing you might be. Ditto Sanders/Klitschko, Baldomir/Judah, etc. So I'm grappling with your point. It sounds like you have a generalized beef with knuckleheads. Who doesn't? But you're falling into a philosophical trap: illogic always beats logic, hands down, because the former doesn't recognize the latter and the latter gets spent trying to expose the former. In other words, your cause may not be wrong, but it is most definitely lost.

I like you man.

[Guest]

Here's another case in point: the night before Surging Lycanthropy fought Louie Brewie.

Dozens of people expressed an opinion on how the fight would play out. Probably less than a handful had actually seen Surging fight before. Hence, by definition, a worthless forum for intelligent and informed boxing discussion.