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By Cliff Rold - No one ever asks, literally, who would win a fight between Jr. Bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan and Middleweight Champion Sergio Martinez. Little time is spent wondering if Manny Pacquiao could overcome a foot and more of height difference, not to mention about 100 pounds, to topple one of the Heavyweight Klitschko brothers.
Those thoughts are not wasted in a literal sense because, for lack of a better word, they’re silly. So, too often, is the place where such matches can take place.
Partly because it’s fun, largely because it always draws a raucous debate, and not so secretly because it’s a quick way to opine on the whole of the sport without always having to be fully familiar with most of what goes on in all of the seventeen weight classes, pound for pound debates have been given an unnatural significance in the modern era. [Click Here To Read More]
Those thoughts are not wasted in a literal sense because, for lack of a better word, they’re silly. So, too often, is the place where such matches can take place.
Partly because it’s fun, largely because it always draws a raucous debate, and not so secretly because it’s a quick way to opine on the whole of the sport without always having to be fully familiar with most of what goes on in all of the seventeen weight classes, pound for pound debates have been given an unnatural significance in the modern era. [Click Here To Read More]
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