Comments Thread For: It’s Official: Zab's Done. Stevenson’s The Best

[MASTER1454]

"Boxing's ****roach" - Lyle Fitzsimmons clearly has no respect for fighters. Bottom feeder through and through.

**** this article

Zab is a former eelterweight and jr welterweight champion have some respect.

Another thing, Zab lost to Al Haymon

Zab didnt get touched for 7 rounds til his dad said " thry got haymon"

watch it round 7. They tried to force Zab to k.o Paulie if not the scorecards would give it to paulie

Zab barely got touched all night FOH

Boxing's ****roach though?

C'mon man....boxing's ****roach?!?....GTFOH with that hateful ****!!...if you're gonna make a career off writing and reporting about guns, you have to respect the shooters imo

****roach? TOTALLY DISRESPECTFUL AND UNCALLED FOR!

[APBrooklyn]

Respect Zab...been a long road - He's a huge success story from the Brownsville parts -most cant comprehend.... The author should take a walk down Saratoga ave Calling Zab a ****roach and see what happens like immediately to him

[SUBZER0ED]

......showcased all this talent??? Broner is getting beaten.

I agree. Some people seem to think that Broner (himself included) is this phenom Mayweather clone. He wishes he was as good as Mayweather. Truth is, Maidana will be the toughest fighter Broner has ever faced. I just don't think Broner has the power he had at lightweight. Sure, he's fast and flashy, but Maidana is a hard-working, hard-hitting fighter. This Saturday, "The problem" may just get solved.

[SUBZER0ED]

Respect Zab...been a long road - He's a huge success story from the Brownsville parts -most cant comprehend.... The author should take a walk down Saratoga ave Calling Zab a ****roach and see what happens like immediately to him

Maybe the author was referring to Zab as being enduring, as ****roaches are believed to be able to survive a nuclear bomb after everything else dies. Or maybe he was being an insulting, disrespectful ******. Either way, it was a poor choice of words. Zab has been a pro for 18 years. He was already a champ when Paulie was just coming up. It's said that all fighters have only so many fights in them. It's just Zab's time to hang it up.

[SUBZER0ED]

No issues with Stevenson getting FOTY, but I don't get why some people act like Boone, Bellew, Cloud, and Dawson is significantly better than Campillo, Cleverly, White, and Sillakh (whom Lyle picked to stop Kovalev in 6--would he pick the likes of Cloud, Boone, or Bellew to defeat Kovalev?).

So many seem to forget that Campillo schooled Cloud and Cleverly beat Bellew, and all of Kovalev's opponents had some momentum or a streak of wins entering the ring against him. That cannot be said of Cloud (should've had two straight losses entering the Stevenson fight), Dawson (had just been badly stopped by a guy who doesn't stop people), or Boone (3 straight losses entering the Stevenson rematch; stopped in only 2 by Kovalev a couple bouts earlier).

It probably has to do with the more recognizable names of Dawson and Cloud, even though they had been previously exposed. The Boone thing stands out as an avenged loss.

[MASTER1454]

Respect Zab...been a long road - He's a huge success story from the Brownsville parts -most cant comprehend.... The author should take a walk down Saratoga ave Calling Zab a ****roach and see what happens like immediately to him

EXACTLY!

Maybe the author was referring to Zab as being enduring, as ****roaches are believed to be able to survive a nuclear bomb after everything else dies. Or maybe he was being an insulting, disrespectful ******. Either way, it was a poor choice of words. Zab has been a pro for 18 years. He was already a champ when Paulie was just coming up. It's said that all fighters have only so many fights in them. It's just Zab's time to hang it up.

I get it, but you can't tell the tone when it's put into print (which looks worse). Fitzsimmons, being a "writer" knew what he was doing......

[APBrooklyn]

[QUOTE=MASTER1454;14018268]EXACTLY!



I get it, but you can't tell the tone when it's put into print (which looks worse). Fitzsimmons, being a "writer" knew what he was doing......[/QUOTE

Writers should have standards of articulation....as ****roach can easily be deemed racist...there was clearly a better term

[jbpanama]

EXACTLY!



I get it, but you can't tell the tone when it's put into print (which looks worse). Fitzsimmons, being a "writer" knew what he was doing......

Fitz takes a lot of Poetic License...Good thing he dosen't make His Main Bread
With His "Picks", in both the NFL, and the Sweet Science....

[cameltoe]

[QUOTE=APBrooklyn;14018299]

EXACTLY!



I get it, but you can't tell the tone when it's put into print (which looks worse). Fitzsimmons, being a "writer" knew what he was doing......[/QUOTE

Writers should have standards of articulation....as ****roach can easily be deemed racist...there was clearly a better term

I agree... Lyle always lets his (fairly average) writing down with scathing, unnecessary comments.

Have some respect.

[Jloro]

Almost anyone could have KO'ed him in one with the mental beating Ward gave him