How Boxing Myths Continue

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I was recently watching Justified and it's a fine show. But there is an episode in season four titled "The Bird Has Flown".

At one point, Rayland Givens says, "I don't know the game much...Outside once I saw Sugar Ray Leonard put Roberto Duran down with a bolo punch when I was a kid."

And WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?

A casual would hear this and believe it.

http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.o...?f=112&t=15318

[The Akbar One]

Or that Ouma was ahead on the cards at the time Golovkin stopped him.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Or that Ouma was ahead on the cards at the time Golovkin stopped him.

Maybe the theory is "If we say it enough times, in enough different places, people will just sort of take it for granted that it's true." Haha

[Nubia]

Or that almost all boxers avoid having sex while in training. Simply not true.

[Fury4daWIN]

Boxing fans don't tend to be the most critical thinkers. Repeat some colourful bit of nonsense long enough and it starts to gain traction. Then, not even evidence to the contrary can sway most people to change their minds. It can even, in many cases, be met with open hostility as if some gross disrespect is taking place. Boxing's earlier period is littered with such examples of sacred cows that, when analysed under the cold light of reason and hard evidence, dissipate into the pipesmoke they always were. Until the next time, that is.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Or that almost all boxers avoid having sex while in training. Simply not true.

You know, I've heard that many times, but I never was sure. I would think it would make a fighter mean as hell once they got in the ring, but I don't know. As long they didn't have sex the day of or right before, I don't see that it would hurt.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Boxing fans don't tend to be the most critical thinkers. Repeat some colourful bit of nonsense long enough and it starts to gain traction. Then, not even evidence to the contrary can sway most people to change their minds. It can even, in many cases, be met with open hostility as if some gross disrespect is taking place. Boxing's earlier period is littered with such examples of sacred cows that, when analysed under the cold light of reason and hard evidence, dissipate into the pipesmoke they always were. Until the next time, that is.

Yeah, it seems to be a lot like the wild west. A lot of crazy things happened. Some dramatic stuff in some cases. But along with that, comes a whole lot of B.S. that just gets repeated so long that it's taken for granted. And well, TV shows are pretty bad about bringing up a topic and knowing nothing about it. I don't watch Gray's Anatomy, but every nurse I've ever talked to says it's not even close to reality.

[kilojay505]

1st off what type of moron would take information from a FICTIONAL show as fact?, 2nd what type of idiot thinks that false info on a $h!tty tv show is going to start bixing myths...

[Fury4daWIN]

1st off what type of moron would take information from a FICTIONAL show as fact?, 2nd what type of idiot thinks that false info on a $h!tty tv show is going to start bixing myths...

If something is related as a fact in a TV show then that is how it will be received by its audience. The fact that it's a fictional show is irrelevant.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

If something is related as a fact in a TV show then that is how it will be received by its audience. The fact that it's a fictional show is irrelevant.

This is exactly my point. Sure, it is fictional, but when a character makes a supposed factual statement, the majority of audiences will say, "Oh wow. I didn't know that."