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Just a quick survey
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35Yes60.00%21No28.57%10I pretend to care to appear more hardcore11.43%4The poll is expired.
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Love how, generally speaking, 122 is always the cutoff point, like the division isn't overrated and terrible and the only reason isn't Rigondeaux.
Back to the question, yes.
I watch most of everything, but a lot of these fighters add great technique with speed, something the higher weights especially above 154 struggle with.
Its a lot harder to slip a hook at a 1/3 seconds notice than one of the slow-ass 10-second ones from most heavyweights.
Its like watching a high-speed chess match with the cardio to match. And there are still plenty of knockouts in these weights. A punch is a punch, especially that the extra weight added in punching power at the higher divisions is somewhat nullified by the extra velocity added to the shots in the lower ones.
Mass x Acceleration = Force
Haevier classes have a lot of the former and none of the latter.
Lighter ones have less of the former but a lot of the latter.
Theres more grace to the lighter weight fighters. Theres so many slow, plodding, stiff uncoordinated sloths at the higher weights, that I'm guessing thats why you see roiding douchebags at bars constantly thinking they can fight.
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yes I'll watch any of those guys under 122 over rigo's boring ass any day of the week.Comment
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I watch when they're on, but they're not as popular on TV channels. Same as the foreign fighters at 130, you don't get to see them much.Comment
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I can kinda get into watching the smaller fighters but, anything below 135 and my friends will be like, "Are we watching midget fights??"Comment
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really depends on who's fighting. like someone else said, they don't really show those guys on tv over here. used to love those divisions when it was guys like darchinyan, arce, rafael marquez, mijares, agbeko, mares, donaire, moreno etc. i would usually watch ivan calderon's fights too.
if there's one division that i don't really care about, it's probably 135.Comment
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I love the smaller weight classes and I always have loved them. I have direct tv and get all the boxing channels. I watch all the pro boxing I can unless they are featuring really low ranked fighters. If they are good fighters at or near champion level then I'm watching it. The problem is there isn't much boxing I can watch that features the better fighters in the real low weight classes so it's hard to keep up with them. I can only watch what's available to me. If I get the chance to watch quality fighters from 106 to 122 then I am watching it and enjoying it. Donaire, Gonzalez, Rigo and Santa Cruz are all favorites of mine.Comment
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I don't watch fighters under 135 usually. I know those guys walk around at about 150. Me and my homies always said if you are under 150lbs you aren't really a man. I'm not much into women's boxing.
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I can't say I keep up with them a lot, but I have seen some great fights in the lower classes, like the Carbajal-Gonzalez fights and of course, Morales-Barrera I was at 122 along with Barrera-McKinney along with the Marquez-Vazquez fights. Those were some real wars.
However, I guess the size does matter here. Heavyweights can be very boring but most can hit like Mack trucks. You move down to lightweight and there are plenty of guys in those weights that can really knock the hell out of each other or any normal sized man and even some bigger normal dudes. But at 122 and less? Even a big guy who knew absolutely nothing about boxing could probably grab those little guys and squash them. So it's harder to respect them.
Still I hate to knock them. They always come in in good shape since they have to and they usually fight like hell. I'll take an action-packed flyweight fight over a heavyweight chess match any dam day of the week.Comment
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