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[Willie Pep 229]

Is that simple statement your entire definition of historical research? I guess the medical report posted by the manager doesn't mean anything.

I suspect the term 'transverse process,' wasn't in Hill's vocabulary or yours.

Good plan, keep it simple you'll be happier....

[Willie Pep 229]

Didn't want you to . . . Want to redirect his interest towards boxing....

[Willie Pep 229]

Well there are those who didn't know that Conn still had to win one more round. It was for them not you tough guy.

What the hell does Louis losing have to do with the point I was making about the score after 12?

Yea, Louis was behind on all three scorecards; he had to be for...

[Willie Pep 229]

John Bois of Sports Nation does these wonderful statistical evaluations of football and baseball called Chart Party - I have said before and got absolutely no responses whatsoever, that if we came up with a reasonable question and promoted it collectively maybe we could get his eye and effort to turn...

[Willie Pep 229]

Good stuff to read -

Is the KO % off because of early stoppages I.e. fighter safety or possibly more deliberate mismatches ? ? ?...

[Willie Pep 229]

That last example (Brian Nielsen) almost seems disrespectful to the topic. Lol

I think I got a five-er but got some help from the color line, i.e. these guys has no place else to go but eachother.

Sam Langford - Sam McVea - Joe Jeannette - Harry Wills - Battling Jim Johnson....

[Willie Pep 229]

Ya confused an ignorant reader, me!

Is there suspose to be an "away" between 'gave' and 'all.'...

[Willie Pep 229]

How the arena gets handled; how much they get paid, ETC. doesn't affect the skill set of boxing.

No new punches have been developed, no new footwork choreographed, the skill set has not changed since Louis.

Lewis never did a damn thing in the ring that would have caught Louis...

[Willie Pep 229]

Duva told Taylor he had to win the last round agsinst Chavez I. He didn't and it cost him.

I think it too simple to assume there's one answer to every situation as suggested by some above, there isn't. Sometimes you run, sometimes fight; sometimes, like Leonard in Montréal the matter is...

[Willie Pep 229]

I know nothing about MMA trainers.

Maybe it's too soon for one to appear.

It would seem to me that in time MMA may become paradoxically a martial art unto itself.

That is, over a generation of fighting, certain moves, blows, blocks, kicks, ECT, from the various...

[Willie Pep 229]

The way they 'handle the arena' has affected boxing skill?

What are you on about?...

[Willie Pep 229]

Yes it is not the only thing you have said, but it is the only thing you have said about EVERY old time fighter.

So I'll ask again, are there any pre-Ali HWs you don't believe to be slow?...

[Willie Pep 229]

I don't think it was intentional- there I agree with you and Jab. It didn't need to end in DQ. But there shouldn't have been a count. Should have been treated as unintentional low blow....

[Willie Pep 229]

Please make a list of five HWs pre-Ali that you don't consider 'slow.' I dare you, I double dare you....

[Willie Pep 229]

Nash Out is OK with me . . . But thank you for explaining Donsld Trump to me.

I had to look the phrase up, but boom there it was.

Dunning and Kruger suggest that this phenomenon stems from what they refer to as a "dual burden." People are not only incompetent; their...

[Willie Pep 229]

Smoky and the Color Line by Willie Pep 229

Early November 1932, a small smoker in Hell's Kitchen, New York City

Promoter: I told you Smoky I don't use no Negros; you said he was Irish.

Smoky: I said he was Black Irish.

Promoter: That's not what that...

[Willie Pep 229]

I remember as a kid circa 1967 an announcement that the 1968 O Games would include some sort of gene/gender testing. The entire East German Women's Swim Team disappeared off the map....

[Willie Pep 229]

No, you can't blame a predator for being a predator; it was TV that screwed us.

TV had the power to decide who/what a champion was, they went with the greed and started calling every scantioning body's champion a champion.

I ask with tongue in cheek, when was the last time...

[Willie Pep 229]

No such thing as a clean Eastern European - they made them take PEDs. Phuck, those animals (Soviet Empire) actually tried to breed monkey-men with gene splicing. If he was in the Polish system he had them forced on him at one time or another....

[Willie Pep 229]

Carry a tape measure in your pocket and start randomly asking passersbys if you can measure them. Get back to us with the stats.

P.S. Did you mean to ask how tall a pygmy is, or do you actually want to know how tall a pygmy midget is?...