Real men don't watch LITTLE MEN fight

[kayjay]

interchangeable Klitschko fans say that the 70s heavyweights were garbage once. I wish I made that up.

Who has graced my avy and/or sig for the past three years?

And my sig has always had a quote from Frazier to Ali

[neils7147933]

Real men don't watch any boxing matches below welterweight. We won't watch midgets fight, because they're too small to count as real athletes.

And there's no more "skillz" there than in the higher weights. What you little boys mistake for skill is just off-balance arm punching.

What Pacquiao and Marquez do is flat-out gay, and they're the good ones. Bigger men need to be cautious because their opponents can knock them out with one punch. Slapping midgets LOOK more active because the punches don't do any damage. Those same strategies would get a cruiserweight or heavyweight killed every time. Why? Because they're facing genetically normal, grown men.

A man who weighs less than 135 pounds is not genetically normal, let alone potentially athletic.

Actually this thread, if it's serious, which I doubt it is, is racist in nature as, it is genetically normal for many parts of the world for non-whites to be this size...

[neils7147933]

Sanders didn't fight back so I wasn't really compelled in that fight. Rahman-Lewis I and II were one-sided fights aside for the one right hand that Rahman and Wlad-Peter was one-sided except for Peter's rabbit punches.

No one would classify them as fight of the year candidates.

Brewster-Lyakhovich WAS the fight of 2006 if you ask me, though

[Mr. Ryan]

OK.

Can we also agree that one punch doesn't make a great fights?

In the first place, I admitted I was overstating my case in order to introduce the point that different weight classes require different styles.

Secondly, it is a fact that the weight limits we go by in the 21st C. were established in the 19th C., when men were much smaller on average. They need updating by about 15lbs each.

Thirdly, I think many fans are turned away from boxing because the fighters are too small. I know many people who have told me this.

Finally, I don;t want to deny small men the right to fight. I'm a ********ic motherfucker. They have the right to pursue a career in boxing, like women have the right to play in the WNBA. But I don;t want to hear that bigger fighters are less skilled. They're as much as playing a different sport. We don;t complain that Shaq can't crossover dribble like Allen Iverson. So why do we expect Vitali Klitschko to fight like JMM. He doesn;t need to, and anyone it would get him killed.

If the fighters were too small, then why haven't the bigger men made a more significant impact in recent times? Reason is, they can't compare to what you might see in a Gatti or Morales fight.

The last heavyweight "super fight" was Lewis-Tyson, most would agree that the fight was less-than compelling. No, Klitschko-Ibragimov did not reach that level. In fact the last heavyweight championship PPV was Klitschko-Williams and hardly anyone bought it. Contrast that with the success of DLH-Mayweather, Pacquiao-Marquez and Morales-Barrera. In America I guess they feel that the little guys sell more than the bigger guys, a claim I think you'll agree with.

I congratulate Russia for it's heavyweight domination but let's face it, the consensus American doesn't know who the champs are and the rest flat out don't care. The highest ranked American heavyweight is John Ruiz, I repeat, John Ruiz.

The bigger the guy, the better the fight? Then why aren't the heavyweight champions scoring compelling knockouts? Over the last 20 years, Ring Magazine has only given the KO of the Year Award to 5 heavyweights. Last year Nonito Donaire, a flyweight, scored the KO of the Year. Surely there were significant heavyweight fights last year, how come none of them could surpass that one punch?

Ring Magazine hasn't given the FOTY award to a heavyweight fight since 1996. I'm fairly positive that they don't have a featherweight bias.

Heavyweights have their appeal, which is dimmed in America because of the lack of Americans in the rankings. But to deny the appeal of the smaller fighters is just not plausible.

[Mr. Ryan]

Brewster-Lyakhovich WAS the fight of 2006 if you ask me, though

I'm not denying that at all.

[Mr. Ryan]

Who has graced my avy and/or sig for the past three years?

And my sig has always had a quote from Frazier to Ali

My GF made me take off sigs/avys because of too many ****ographic shorties.

[Stickman]

Brewster-Lyakhovich WAS the fight of 2006 if you ask me, though

Couldn't agree more, fan-farking-tastic fight. Both guys brought everything they had into the ring that night (left alot of it there, too). I'd have paid $100 for that, had it been PPV, and I'd known in advance how it would play out.

[Mr. Ryan]

Couldn't agree more, fan-farking-tastic fight. Both guys brought everything they had into the ring that night (left alot of it there, too). I'd have paid $100 for that, had it been PPV, and I'd known in advance how it would play out.

A rematch is in discussions and might be happening sooner than you think.

[Stickman]

Actually this thread, if it's serious, which I doubt it is, is racist in nature as, it is genetically normal for many parts of the world for non-whites to be this size...

And couldn't disagree more with this. To be racist, there needs to be racist intent. As silly as this thread is, it's intent was never racist in any way that I could see.

[paul750]

Ibeabuchi and Tua were just two incredibly tough men. That very rarely happens at heavyweight.