Boxing fans know nothing

[DeckasRun]

Can I just say;what the hell is the point in fans,experts,analysts,the average guy in the street,picking one fighter to beat another. Its all crap.Nearly all of you guys picked De La Hoya to beat Pacman,and the half that didnt I bet picked Pavlik to beat Hopkins.
And whats funny,is that you guys think you can pick one guy to beat another guy in a different era lolol. Hell if you cant get jack**** right on two guys in the same era,how the hell do you get the notion that you can compare two guys from different decades. I just got two words


GIVE UP !

[Guest]

Can I just say;what the hell is the point in fans,experts,analysts,the average guy in the street,picking one fighter to beat another. Its all crap.Nearly all of you guys picked De La Hoya to beat Pacman,and the half that didnt I bet picked Pavlik to beat Hopkins.
And whats funny,is that you guys think you can pick one guy to beat another guy in a different era lolol. Hell if you cant get jack**** right on two guys in the same era,how the hell do you get the notion that you can compare two guys from different decades. I just got two words


GIVE UP !

The fun of predicting boxing is the unpredictability of it all. It's that kind of sport.
If everyone knew every answer, where is the fun in that?

I like to be surprised and even wrong.
Makes it interesting.

[DeckasRun]

Yeh its fun i guess,but also an exercise in futility. I mean if these guys had never fought then history would have said that De La Hoya would have won anyway. The same way that the consensus is that Mayweather wouldn't beat Duran at 130,or Tyson wouldn't have a hope in hell at a prime Ali. I mean in boxing,opinion seems to be regarded as fact.
I remember when Lacy and Calzaghe fought..Lacy was a strong favourite. Lol what a bleeding joke. If that fight had been cancelled,then history would have noted that Calzaghe was an inferior fighter to him.
I'm just miffed at how fans can get it so very very wrong on so many many occasions.
A phrase I constantly hear is how "styles make fights".Well going by the amount of innacurate selections pre fight,I wonder if a fighters style gives any clue at all to the boxing fan on the potential outcome,or is it an irrelevance.

[CaRnAgEViOLaToR]

i think size advantage is really overrated sometimes. speed and skill kills.

i actually thought manny was going to win the fight by potshotting de la hoya because i thought de la hoya looked slow and past it against forbes but i didnt think hed embarrass oscar worse than he did david freakin diaz

[medium-deek]

And whats funny,is that you guys think you can pick one guy to beat another guy in a different era lolol. Hell if you cant get jack**** right on two guys in the same era,how the hell do you get the notion that you can compare two guys from different decades. I just got two words


GIVE UP !

LOL. That's pretty funny. Karma for that.

[MANGLER]

The fun of predicting boxing is the unpredictability of it all. It's that kind of sport.
If everyone knew every answer, where is the fun in that?

I like to be surprised and even wrong.
Makes it interesting.

Good post. I hated Pac-DLH cuz the outcome was a foregone conclusion and kind of an unfair one. But pac proved me and mad other cats wrong, and put on a helluva show doin it.

[Dan...]

That is what makes this the greatest sport.

[Pullcounter]

The fun of predicting boxing is the unpredictability of it all. It's that kind of sport.
If everyone knew every answer, where is the fun in that?

I like to be surprised and even wrong.
Makes it interesting.

yeah this guy is a buzzkill

[Soda Popinski]

Can I just say;what the hell is the point in fans,experts,analysts,the average guy in the street,picking one fighter to beat another. Its all crap.Nearly all of you guys picked De La Hoya to beat Pacman,and the half that didnt I bet picked Pavlik to beat Hopkins.
And whats funny,is that you guys think you can pick one guy to beat another guy in a different era lolol. Hell if you cant get jack**** right on two guys in the same era,how the hell do you get the notion that you can compare two guys from different decades. I just got two words


GIVE UP !

Translation = I don't know **** myself, so I listened to everyone else, now I owe my neighbor a ******* every weekend for a year.

[DeckasRun]

Nah I knew Pacman would win. I've never been convinced of Oscar's integrity since the Hopkins fight.