trompuss wrote:

AnthonyVillalobos wrote:Not Crap.

I can't believe how crazy some of these dudes are.

I used to watch boxing with my dad quite sometime back and I've developed a strong appreciation for it.

Although, nowadays I tend to watch PRIDE fighting based out of Japan. I'm pretty sure the best fighter in the world fights under that organization and his name is Fedor Emelianenko.

Pride is no more. It was purchased and dismantled by the power hungry UFC. Fedor has signed with a new organization, M1. The problem with that is, his new organization does not have any other fighters within its ranks that come close to what Fedor is, and this is hurting the widely held opinion that he was the number one heavyweight in the world.

What???

Fuck. I knew it was only a matter of time before Dana White bought out Pride and start fucking things up.

I didn't get a chance to see this, but I heard Crocop fought Eddie Sanchez a while back. I didn't realize Dana White bought out Pride.

That fucking sucks. So that probably means these fighters have to obide by all the rules UFC has compared to Pride. If UFC has any respect at all, they will turn the cage into a ring.

This weekend, the best super middleweight in the history of boxing fights the best middleweight of the last 20 years for the light heavyweight championship of the world.

Joe Calzaghe versus Bernard Hopkins.

Just an amazing matchup.

The only thing amazing about this matchup will be if it doesn't end up being 12 rounds of absolute tedium. Calzaghe has made a career of looking good against shit opposition whereas Hopkins' forte is making good opposition look like shit.

Calzaghe will win on points, or then again he might even manage a ko against a 43 year old fighter, cementing his position as a midweight Rocky Marciano.

Showtime is about to air the Vasquez/Marquez "trilogy." I'm stoked. Watching their third bout a couple of weeks back has rekindled my interest in boxing. I watched the Holyfield/Bowe fight earlier today and have taken in every fight I've come across while channel-surfing over the past few weeks. I'm seriously thinking about attending my first live fight this summer if the opportunity presents itself.

I urge anyone who likes classic fights to check this site out:

http://www.boxingwholesale.com/

You can purchase "Career DVD Sets" of great fighters. I just got the Sonny Liston collection on Monday, and it's phenomenal (and terrifying) to see how strong he was. Almost all the fights are complete -- really a treat, as most of this stuff is extremely hard to track down (YouTube excepted, but these are best on a big screen).

Will be ordering the Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Johnson, and Joe Louis sets as finances allow.

not crap cuz it takes balls to do that. crap that it's such a spectacle. seems to me that boxing should be something more personal than it is.

over all, crap.

The problem with boxing is it's just people punching each other and they make it out like it's some strategic intelligent "sport".

At least wrestling makes fun of itself and the joke that it is.

Boxing.. punch punch punch. Boring. At least a lot of boxers become "amusing" after suffering many blows to the head.

madlee wrote: I want to see Margacheato get KO'd bad. I mean, no more boxing for him, bad. That guy is evil.After watching the fight again, all I can think about is how bad that eye must've hurt. The pain had to have been radiating throughout his head and Pacquaio kept hitting it over and over. Gritty performance by Margarito. Salut!

Into the Void wrote:After baseball, boxing is probably my favorite sport. Quotes like this after tonight's fight are exactly why I can't get too much more into it:"My plan is to have two or three more fights before I retire and would like to have one of them against Pacquiao or Mayweather," said Martinez, wearing a crown on his head and smiling widely during his television interviews....But for those believing that maybe Pacquiao or even Mayweather would make the attempt to fight him, forget about it. Sanity among sanctioning bodies will come first."So, you have one of the best in the sport, and the others at the top won't want to fight him precisely because he is one of the best. That is absolute fucking bullshit and the complete opposite of what should drive an athlete. And it's also why I would rather watch "classic" fights from the 50's/60's/70's than keep up with this current sham. In a way it's the sport that requires the absolute most "balls" but philosophies like Mayweather's completely negate that fact. His record is more important to him than who he beat, and that attitude is exactly what currently makes the sport a joke.You could maybe say that about mayweather v pacquaio, but it is a two way street with martinez. Why doesn't he go up in weight and fight at super middle weight (168lb) or light heavy (175lb)? What makes the sport a joke is the promoters and the crazy judges. Oh, and of course the deaths, the brain injuries and other horrors that seem to visit a lot of former fighters in their later years.

I'm not sure I'd go quite that far. One the most exciting 1st rounds, certainly. The rest of the fight, while not too shabby, is too one sided to be mentioned along side Castillo-Corrales 1 and the Barrera-Morales trilogy. Probably still a fight of the year candidate and much needed after a series of dreadful high-profile fights.