Floyd vs McGregor was the beginning of the end for professional prize fighting

[Eff Pandas]

If you know your boxing history you know this sport has had much bigger legit freak shows than anything anyone in boxing today could do. Hell Jack Johnson used to be put into battle royal fights with 6 or 8 other mfers ffs. And there are crazy ass things & numerous exhibitions going all the way up to the present.

This isn't a noble sport like the propaganda says. It's a brutal business where revenue steers the sports direction.

[blowblow]

PAC can solve poverty in the Philippines with one Funch

In slow motion..

Have you ever been out of the Philippines?

My daughter lives a lavish lifestyle Forbes pack and has a driver.

In ***ish thought

We must leave an inheritance for our children

PAC forgot his outta wedlock son. Stinky Jinky is trash

wow pretentious rich kid.. but no manners hahaha.. that really exposes you man.. looks like you've never been to other places aside from your rented apartment. i wonder if it was a wooden built or not.

[blowblow]

You're just dreamer boy. I guess you're leaving under the basement doing some googling on every place of the earth and imagining that you leave in that place.

Your daughter was probably a whore in the bar.

hahaha you made me laugh with this one.. most definitely true..

[paulf]

If you know your boxing history you know this sport has had much bigger legit freak shows than anything anyone in boxing today could do. Hell Jack Johnson used to be put into battle royal fights with 6 or 8 other mfers ffs. And there are crazy ass things & numerous exhibitions going all the way up to the present.

This isn't a noble sport like the propaganda says. It's a brutal business where revenue steers the sports direction.

B I N G O.

The only time boxing ever had any integrity was purely accidental.

I always point to this bit from Leibling about the Golden Age when this comes up. Boxing hasn't changed a bit in a hundred years... people just see the fights they saw growing up through rose-colored glasses.

One reminded me that I had seen the first boxing show ever held in Yankee Stadium—on May 12, 1923. I had forgotten that it was the first show, and even that 1923 was the year the Stadium opened. In my true youth, the Yankees used to share the Polo Grounds with the Giants, and I had forgotten that, too, because I never cared much about baseball, although, come to think of it, I used to see the Yankees play occasionally in the nineteen-’teens, and should have remembered. I remembered the boxing show itself very well, though. It happened during the spring of my second suspension from college, and I paid five dollars for a high-grandstand seat. The program merely said that it had been “an all-star heavyweight bill promoted by Tex Rickard for the Hearst Milk Fund,” but I found that I could still remember every man and every bout on the card. One of the main events was between old Jess Willard, the former heavyweight champion of the world, who had lost the title to Jack Dempsey in 1919, and a young heavyweight named Floyd Johnson. Willard had been coaxed from retirement to make a comeback because there was such a dearth of heavyweight material that Rickard thought he could still get by, but as I remember the old fellow, he couldn’t fight a lick. He had a fair left jab and a right uppercut that a fellow had to walk into to get hurt by, and he was big and soft. Johnson was a mauler worse than Rex Layne, and the old man knocked him out. The other main event, ex aequo, had Luis Angel Firpo opposing a fellow named Jack McAuliffe II, from Detroit, who had had only fifteen fights and had never beaten anybody, and had a glass jaw. The two winners, of whose identity there was infinitesimal preliminary doubt, were to fight each other for the right to meet the great Jack Dempsey. Firpo was so crude that Marciano would be a Fancy Dan in comparison. He could hit with only one hand—his right—he hadn’t the faintest idea of what to do in close, and he never cared much for the business anyway. He knocked McAuliffe out, of course, and then, in a later “elimination” bout, stopped poor old Willard. He subsequently became a legend by going one and a half sensational rounds with Dempsey, in a time that is now represented to us as the golden age of American pugilism.

I reflected with satisfaction that old Ahab Moore could have whipped all four principals on that card within fifteen rounds, and that while Dempsey may have been a great champion, he had less to beat than Marciano. I felt the satisfaction because it proved that the world isn’t going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

[blowblow]

Why are Manny fans making multiple threads blaming Floyd for manny copying his every move?

Is manny his own man? If so, then he and only he is responsible for his actions. Instead, manny fans make Floyd responsible as if he is Manny’s daddy or role model.

Floyd has proven to be financially successful in retirement. Manny, as he did late in Floyd’s career, is now just copying whatever Floyd did hoping to make as much money.

Notice that he never quite does that.

Manny behaves like one of Floyd’s b-tches. Time to stop that and be your own man.

is that so? then look at my sig.. remember that always hahaha.. such a cute fanboy.. i never thought floyd will be like that.

[blowblow]

No, it's the beginning of Mayweather's new legend...

yeah the beginning of no buys PPV.. haha need to postpone his fight with logan.. don't dream too much.. it won't be happening.

[PeepeePoopooMan]

I think Mayweather making fighters fear losing their 0 is much worse. Look how scared spencer is to fight ugas or crawford

[The Big Dunn]

is that so? then look at my sig.. remember that always hahaha.. such a cute fanboy.. i never thought floyd will be like that.

Any fan of the sport gets excited at a ko. Why you think that means Floyd is a fanboy of manny is just dumb.

As much as you criticize Floyd it had to humble you to watch manny copy his every move.

Exhibitions, ducking Spence and Crawford. Every criticism you’ve had of Floyd applies to manny now.

Sorry slurp slurp but it is what it is.

[Ochoa780]

I think floyd fans was part of that reason because they support, defend and justified floyd action on why that the macgregor fight should happen.

Floyd fans? Plenty of people were clamoring at watching a guy who was considered one of the top mixed martial artists fight against floyd. If only "floyd fans" bought the fight no way it does the numbers it did

[Ochoa780]

If you know your boxing history you know this sport has had much bigger legit freak shows than anything anyone in boxing today could do. Hell Jack Johnson used to be put into battle royal fights with 6 or 8 other mfers ffs. And there are crazy ass things & numerous exhibitions going all the way up to the present.

This isn't a noble sport like the propaganda says. It's a brutal business where revenue steers the sports direction.

Exactly. People don't understand this is nothing new. But with social media available now it's a much bigger deal