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You know what, I talk a lot of **** about Rigondeaux being boring, way more than I probably should. In my opinion the dude is good enough to where he could engage a lot more than he does, so I end up finding his extreme spot-picking style frustrating as a spectator. But of all these guys I straight up think Molina is the absolute worst to watch.
I was live at the Molina-Cintron fight (undercard to Rios-Antillon at the Home Depot Center) and even though Molina was winning clearly it was a terrible fight to watch. Straight-up boring. Let's be honest, people talk **** about the Bradley-Marquez undercard but there was no fight on the Bradley-Marquez undercard as bad as Ishe-Molina. Even the opening light-heavy bout between Monaghan and the other guy whose name I can't remember was more entertaining than Ishe-Molina.
11 haters voted for Floyd Mayweather at the time of this post. No way is Mayweather more boring than Molina. At least Floyd brings the magnitude of his event to the table. He brings excitement just on the mystery of who dares to kick the ass of a guy that makes at LEAST 40 million dollars every time he fights. That's excitement right there. 11 people don't know **** about boxing.
In my opinion Lara is the only other fighter that really doesn't belong on this list. The dude has turned in some bad fights (that Vanes fight was ****ing bad and I thought Lara won that one too) but he took it to Williams and gave a huge showing of heart against Angulo. Lara got off the ground against Angulo and continued to engage him anyway, he showed no fear in that fight and it was badass.
Every other guy on the list I would agree is boring to one extent or the other. I think Hopkins does a lot these days to make his fights memorable and exciting; I feel that Hopkins-Pascal I and II are modern day boxing classics both for their historical significance and for the action they delivered in the ring. I will never forget Hopkins doing push-ups in between rounds in Hopkins-Pascal II. Ward has put on some great boxing exhibitions lately which offset some of his worse showings in my eyes. Some of his earlier fights were piss-awful (he really ground out that Kessler win) but there was nothing to complain about in his Froch and Dawson victories.
I love boxers but I still think Rigondeaux is a boring fighter to watch. He's great, etc, I have him #4 in the entire sport but as far as I'm concerned, a guy with his talent can engage and exert himself much more than he does. It's his career and if he wins then good on him, but this is the professionals, not the amateurs. People are actually paying to see this, they want to see guys who will do more than chip out wins. Yeah, he knocks guys out... eventually. But until that point he shows absolutely no urgency in a fight. That **** is boring, there's no way around it. A 7th-round knockout isn't going to impress me if the first six rounds were free of meaningful action. I didn't vote for Rigo because I think he does some great stuff in the ring to where a practiced eye can appreciate his technique, but from the perspective of a fight fan that enjoys going to watch great fights live, I don't consider him to have an entertaining style. He's not a guy I would take three non-diehard boxing friends to.Comment
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