Comments Thread For: “Fighting Words” – A 75 Percent Better Boxing Weekend

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by David P. Greisman - No one fight saves boxing. No one fight breaks it either. But there are nights that leave fans with a bad taste in their mouths. And there are weeks where that bad taste thankfully gets washed away.

That is where we found ourselves Saturday, one week after the disappointment that was the long-awaited heavyweight unification bout between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.

Klitschko-Haye was the second biggest bout in boxing that could be made, a clash of champions that took years to bring to the ring. For all of our anticipation, however, and for all of the combatants’ talk, the bout itself was an aesthetic disappointment, the promise of harm unfulfilled, the action indefensibly defensive.

This past weekend was 75 percent better.

None of the four fights broadcast on HBO and Showtime approached the importance of Klitschko-Haye. None of them needed to. The big fights hold even more import in this era because they are rare. What these fights did have were elements of what attracts us to the sport even when the boxers are lesser known and the storylines aren’t must-see blockbusters. [Click Here To Read More]

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by David P. Greisman - No one fight saves boxing. No one fight breaks it either. But there are nights that leave fans with a bad taste in their mouths. And there are weeks where that bad taste thankfully gets washed away.

That is where we found ourselves Saturday, one week after the disappointment that was the long-awaited heavyweight unification bout between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.

Klitschko-Haye was the second biggest bout in boxing that could be made, a clash of champions that took years to bring to the ring. For all of our anticipation, however, and for all of the combatants’ talk, the bout itself was an aesthetic disappointment, the promise of harm unfulfilled, the action indefensibly defensive.

This past weekend was 75 percent better.

None of the four fights broadcast on HBO and Showtime approached the importance of Klitschko-Haye. None of them needed to. The big fights hold even more import in this era because they are rare. What these fights did have were elements of what attracts us to the sport even when the boxers are lesser known and the storylines aren’t must-see blockbusters. [Click Here To Read More]

Clear and aninteresting read as is always with DaviD. Did anyone notice the strong resemblance between between his COMMENTS of the Rios-Antillon battle and the philosophy of Larry Merchant when it comes to customer friendly fights....??

Just one little thing. I disagree with the description of Antillon's last actions as being like those of Tommy Hears at the end of his great battle. Antillon stumbles backwards into the ropes, Hearns actually turned and ran, or tried to run away to get recovery time.he ran sideways along thr ropes, at least 3-4 steps.

However he was equally hors-de-combat.