Comments Thread For: Vergil Ortiz Jnr wants to become a ?throwback fighter? against Israil Madrimov

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Vergil Ortiz Jnr will defend his WBC interim junior middleweight title against former titleholder Israil Madrimov on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in what is, on paper, the toughest test of his professional career.
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[robbyheartbaby]

Woah hold up who reckons Madrimov beat Bud?! Putting up a fight and going the distance don’t mean you won come on.

[Corelone]

Don't use the words "throwback fighter". Tim Tzsyu used those words to describe himself before he was deconstructed and thrown back by Murtazaliev.

It's not happening anyway. Throwback means same day weigh in, 15 rounds, one champion per. When people ask who is better, then or now? I think, then would squash now.

[steeve steel]

It's not happening anyway. Throwback means same day weigh in, 15 rounds, one champion per. When people ask who is better, then or now? I think, then would squash now.

Same day weigh-in would be a win-win: less risk of brain damage caused by dehydration and no more weight bullies having an unfair advantage. C'mon Corleone, use the old "horse head in the bed" routine and make it happen!

[steeve steel]

Don't use the words "throwback fighter". Tim Tzsyu used those words to describe himself before he was deconstructed and thrown back by Murtazaliev.

It's funny cause it's true!

[Roadblock]

It's not happening anyway. Throwback means same day weigh in, 15 rounds, one champion per. When people ask who is better, then or now? I think, then would squash now.

No chance, todays best conditioned-wise would show just how they were back then, top level fighters today could do 15 with no probs it all about pace, you think the guys that did 40 rounds were in the same shape as the top guys today, they did 40 rounds, its not close they just threw 10 punches a round and waltzed, being fit and being conditioned are different, today has so much more explosive power, as in all sports today's athletes in any field are better conditioned today than ever before.

[steeve steel]

Is his first name Vito?

We'll see soon enough if I get a dead fish in the mail for disrespecting his name.

[LAchargers373]

Ortiz gonna win this

[Corelone]

These guys today are pampered compared to how it was. If you think eating a few bananas and resistance training (weight lifting) is making super humans I can't explain. At one time there were more boxers in NY than there are in the world today. It was dog eat dog, not diva ducking diva.

[Roadblock]

Same day weigh-in would be a win-win: less risk of brain damage caused by dehydration and no more weight bullies having an unfair advantage. C'mon Corleone, use the old "horse head in the bed" routine and make it happen!

They didn't weigh in right before the fight it was in the morning some 12 hrs from fight time, they would still dry out and rehydrate just not as much as today but still 10 pounds or more, they changed it to 30 hrs because fighters were doing the same as today only fighting in a semi dehydrated space, which led the medical people to think we need to give them more time to rehydrate so they officially went to 30hrs

I see it a lot fans somehow think the old timers were superman, they weren't, just tough men that were fit and hungry, fighting guys in the same shape they were in, today its much more refined athletically, fans don't see it because its a fight to them they don't see the athlete, like say looking at a racehorse, when in reality there is no difference, peak condition is peak condition in an animal as it is in a man.