Most boring fight you have ever seen?

[Szef]

it was lightyears beyond his other fights, which regularly get him in the discussion for most boring fighter on the planet, or fighters who are so dull that they shouldn't be on network TV in [spite of how good they might be.]


doniare just coulnd't make anything happen. he's not a "pure counterpucnher." it's not like he's some slick who will stare at you all night on purpose. he's not great at leading, but it's not like he avoids it by being negative and countering all night and in every fight, the way rigondeaux does.


he was aslo the best 118 lb puncher i'd ever seen, and still hit like a mule at 122, and the excitement of him possibly starching a naturally smaller guy with a crap chin was always there.



i'd never compare it to a carlos molina fight, for example, or most of rigondeaux's other fights.

Takes two to tango, Donaire can definitely **** and has a very good timing, but let's not act like he's not a one dimensional fighter. People were wining about Rigo running in that fight, you know all the usual NSB ****, but if your opponents runs, you cut the ring off, simple as that. And Donaire didn't do it because he simply couldn't do it. Hence he's one dimensional. He got totally outclassed in that fight, it wasn't even close.

[ea22]

Rigo vs Agbenko literally put me to sleep, Malignaggi vs Judah was pretty bad as well. Vlad vs Povetkin and Mayweather vs Pacquiao were supremely boring but because of the names and the circumstances of the fights at least I was able to remain awake.

[therealpugilist]

this really is hysterical, when you think about it.


you watch boxing because it has the potential to be the most exciting sport on the planet when the matchmaking is proper.

the sad thing is, people say the best should fight the best, but when it involves their favorite fighter doing so, insert excuse.....he is boring....he isn't a draw....he wont fight here or there


yadda yadda yadda...just admit your guy has no shot at beating, or you have little faith...its not that hard


Like all them years when people were arguing over mayweather vs Pac......Besides insulting Mayweather or saying he ran, nobody really gave an assessment why they though Manny would win besides they like him....when fans, celebrities, boxers, and trainers said why they thought Mayweather won, they'd give a full in-ring assessment



boxing fans are turning into accountants and band wagon hopers

[therealpugilist]

[QUOTE=Szef;16369276]Takes two to tango, Donaire can definitely **** and has a very good timing, but let's not act like he's not a one dimensional fighter. People were wining about Rigo running in that fight, you know all the usual NSB ****, but if your opponents runs, you cut the ring off, simple as that. And Donaire didn't do it because he simply couldn't do it. Hence he's one dimensional. He got totally outclassed in that fight, it wasn't even close.[QUOTE]

most people on NSB don't know shyt about boxing


its not about what you're opponent does, its about what you do to take away his strengths


If you have a moving target, slide, shift and cut off the ring...don't follow them around winging at air hoping something lands


Same excuse came on May 2nd....everyone new 5 years ago Floyd wasn't gonna trade....he takes your best attributes away....that's what a REAL boxer does

[New England]

Takes two to tango, Donaire can definitely **** and has a very good timing, but let's not act like he's not a one dimensional fighter. People were wining about Rigo running in that fight, you know all the usual NSB ****, but if your opponents runs, you cut the ring off, simple as that. And Donaire didn't do it because he simply couldn't do it. Hence he's one dimensional. He got totally outclassed in that fight, it wasn't even close.

he dropped and hurt rigondeaux. the styles don't lend themselves to winning rounds, but he did get close to winning considering that hurting rigondeaux was the only way he could win. certainly you can't say that a puncher who gets to his opponent enough to put him down and hurt him wasn't close to what he was trying to do, which was catch his opponent, hurt him, and win the fight.

maybe you'll have to go through the early part of his career, but donaire was not the one trick pony he bacame later on in life when he fell in love with his power! he was a boxer / puncher / counterpuncher. he just happened to be the hardest pucnher i've ever seeen from 112 to 118, and he couldn't get away from trying to bomb in a weight class that's made for boxers, not bombers.

[xhiddenx87]

easy one, Wlad-Fury. Two heavyweights and no action.

Rigo was an option but he was fighting a nobody, so I don't count it.

[New England]

easy one, Wlad-Fury. Two heavyweights and no action.

Rigo was an option but he was fighting a nobody, so I don't count it.

i hardly remember that he even fought


he's one fo the most boring boxers ever. that's just me being fair to other boxers who actually try and fight.

[Szef]

he dropped and hurt rigondeaux. the styles don't lend themselves to winning rounds, but he did get close to winning considering that hurting rigondeaux was the only way he could win. certainly you can't say that a puncher who gets to his opponent enough to put him down and hurt him wasn't close to what he was trying to do, which was catch his opponent, hurt him, and win the fight.

maybe you'll have to go through the early part of his career, but donaire was not the one trick pony he bacame later on in life when he fell in love with his power! he was a boxer / puncher / counterpuncher. he just happened to be the hardest pucnher i've ever seeen from 112 to 118, and he couldn't get away from trying to bomb in a weight class that's made for boxers, not bombers.

He dropped him while they were in the clinch, and he most definitely didn't hurt him, Rigo retaliated shortly after he got up. Just like against the Japanese dude. That's not what I'd call a close fight.

Rigo gets dropped easily, but it's not easy to finish him off.

[New England]

He dropped him while they were in the clinch, and he most definitely didn't hurt him, Rigo retaliated shortly after he got up. Just like against the Japanese dude. That's not what I'd call a close fight.

Rigo gets dropped easily, but it's not easy to finish him off.

huge difference between a fight being close and a guy being totally outclassed. i consider close rounds or fights one that could have gone either way, or in which one guy only has a slight edge over the other. i don't consider a puncher who is able to hurt his opponent. there's not much room between


you said yourself that donaire had a puncher's chance only. how's it "not close at all" [or whatever the wording was] when the big puncher is able to land his big punch and put his guy down cleanly? there's not a ton of room between dropped by the puncher and knocked out by the puncher. that's what he's there to do, and he did get the ball rolling by putting him down.

i also don't agree at all with your assessment of how hurt rigondeaux was. he wasn't off balance until the punch landed. he caught a left hook clean on the chin and went down. it moved him backwards physically.



you're also losing sight of the fact that the nature of the fight, in spite of a lack of contact for a championship fight at such a small weight class, lends itself to excitement.

donaire had the power to hurt rigondeaux, as evidenced by the left hook that put him down late in the fight. rigondeaux was boxing for a spot on the p4p list. donaire was the fighter of the year just a year prior, IIRC./



these are the things that lent themselves to that being being percieved as much more entertaining than any of rigondeaux's others.

[Szef]

huge difference between a fight being close and a guy being totally outclassed. i consider close rounds or fights one that could have gone either way, or in which one guy only has a slight edge over the other. i don't consider a puncher who is able to hurt his opponent. there's not much room between


you said yourself that donaire had a puncher's chance only. how's it "not close at all" [or whatever the wording was] when the big puncher is able to land his big punch and put his guy down cleanly? there's not a ton of room between dropped by the puncher and knocked out by the puncher. that's what he's there to do, and he did get the ball rolling by putting him down.

i also don't agree at all with your assessment of how hurt rigondeaux was. he wasn't off balance until the punch landed. he caught a left hook clean on the chin and went down. it moved him backwards physically.



you're also losing sight of the fact that the nature of the fight, in spite of a lack of contact for a championship fight at such a small weight class, lends itself to excitement.

donaire had the power to hurt rigondeaux, as evidenced by the left hook that put him down late in the fight. rigondeaux was boxing for a spot on the p4p list. donaire was the fighter of the year just a year prior, IIRC./



these are the things that lent themselves to that being being percieved as much more entertaining than any of rigondeaux's others.

How many rounds did Donaire win? 2? 3? You don't have to lose 12-0 to get outclassed.

Rigo took away his tools, controlled the range, and won virtually every exchange in that fight. He was never in danger, not even when he got knocked down. And like I said, he got knocked down when he was in a clinch, that's different than getting timed and clocked, like Darchyinan did for example.

And Rigo got up immediately, retaliated, basically said "Is that all you got?"