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#705
#705
10-9 Pac...again....

I'm really liking the touch ups off the breaks....

Shane doesn't have a Mexican heart....he's not going to get it done..
 
#706
#706
A man like Morales, Barrera, or Marquez would have gone for a 10-7 round at that point.

Kenny Bayless sucks anyhow.
 
#715
#715
Didn't watch it, but sounds like it went the way the Mosley/Mayweather fight went.
One entertaining round, and then Mosley realizes he doesn't have to quickness to counterpunch the other fighter,
so he spents the rest of the fight going backwards to avoid getting knocked out.
Another Boring fight from Mosley.
 
#716
#716
These days, the best advertisement for the UFC is a boxing fight. The bigger, the better. Only the biggest boxing fights get our attention, and when a big one finally comes around -- as it did Saturday when Manny Pacquiao fought Shane Mosley -- we watch it or read about it. And we are reminded:
This is why the UFC is moving ahead of boxing.
If you watched Mosley run from Pacquiao for 12 rounds, you know what I'm talking about. If you didn't, here you go. Those are the "highlights," such as they are. It's Pacquiao moving forward, and Mosley moving backward. It's one fighter trying his best not to get knocked out, and to that end, Mosley succeeded. Pacquiao took the unanimous decision, sweeping every round on two of the three judges' cards, but Mosley did what he wanted to do. He survived 12 rounds. In a sense, he won.
Boxing lost.
Boxing almost always loses on a night like this, because the fight rarely lives up to the hype. The best thing about a big boxing fight nowadays is the series of pre-fight specials leading up to it. You get to watch Pacquiao and Mosley train. Hear them talk. See who they are as people. It's riveting TV.
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In matchup with 'big boxing,' UFC wins by knockout - Boxing - CBSSports.com

Sums it up.
 
#717
#717
So, Shane gets his 5 million for doing nothing but showing up. Said in the post fight he was looking for a chance to get "his shot" in. That is comical. He has no heart anymore.

Bob Arum said JMM or Zab Judah in November.
 
#721
#721
oklavol said:
Didn't watch it, but sounds like it went the way the Mosley/Mayweather fight went.
One entertaining round, and then Mosley realizes he doesn't have to quickness to counterpunch the other fighter,
so he spents the rest of the fight going backwards to avoid getting knocked out.
Another Boring fight from Mosley.
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yeah.

The fight/birthday party I went to was more entertaining than the actual fight.
 
#722
#722
Co. Aytch said:
"Assault in the Ring" coming on HBO this week. I dont know anything about what happened except for what I just read. Seems like it will be a gruesome documentary.

HBO: Assault in the Ring: Home
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It's a replay from a couple of years ago, unless there's some sort of update that I'm not aware of, but it's definitely worth the watch. Very sad but very well done.

I still don't know how to feel about Resto but Panama Lewis is one huge POS.
 
#723
#723
JTrainDavis said:
You guys are letting NochNoch down, I can't carry the boxing thread alone!
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Appreciate you holding down the fort! I was in a wedding this weekend so I was unfortunately detained from the fight business for both nights. Watched the Arce fight last night and that was damn good. Probably half heartedly watch the replay of the main event this Saturday before Ward - Abraham but it sounds like it went about exactly like I anticipated.
 
#724
#724
oklavol said:
In matchup with 'big boxing,' UFC wins by knockout - Boxing - CBSSports.com

Sums it up.
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About the only way to truly enjoy boxing today is to look passed the 2 or 3 "big fights" a year, not forward to them. As a bit of a junkie, I watch pretty much any fight I can get, big or small, but the entertaining action fights are not usually going to be the ones that make it to PPV. The landscape has completely changed from the 80s and 90s when the heavyweights put on good fights AND were the most popular fighters.

I try not to bash UFC because I realize that just cause it's not for me doesn't mean it's not good for someone. I've just never understood how boxing gets labeled as boring when it seems like 75% of the UFC fights I've watched (first to admit it's a small sample size) end up as two guys laying on the ground in one hell of a painful hugging match. I realize there can be skill involved in it but that doesn't make it entertaining.

The one thing I do admire about UFC is their treatment of the fighters from a standpoint of the W-L records. From what I can tell, just about everybody in UFC carries around multiple losses with no real consequence to their futures if they can win the next one. In boxing, the up and coming fighters get coddled with hand picked opponents to protect this precious "0" in the loss column that ultimately ends up meaning jack **** if and when they ever face a quality fighter.
 
#725
#725
NochNoch said:
About the only way to truly enjoy boxing today is to look passed the 2 or 3 "big fights" a year, not forward to them. As a bit of a junkie, I watch pretty much any fight I can get, big or small, but the entertaining action fights are not usually going to be the ones that make it to PPV. The landscape has completely changed from the 80s and 90s when the heavyweights put on good fights AND were the most popular fighters.

I try not to bash UFC because I realize that just cause it's not for me doesn't mean it's not good for someone. I've just never understood how boxing gets labeled as boring when it seems like 75% of the UFC fights I've watched (first to admit it's a small sample size) end up as two guys laying on the ground in one hell of a painful hugging match. I realize there can be skill involved in it but that doesn't make it entertaining.

The one thing I do admire about UFC is their treatment of the fighters from a standpoint of the W-L records. From what I can tell, just about everybody in UFC carries around multiple losses with no real consequence to their futures if they can win the next one. In boxing, the up and coming fighters get coddled with hand picked opponents to protect this precious "0" in the loss column that ultimately ends up meaning jack **** if and when they ever face a quality fighter.
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The UFC fights on the ground are boring, mainly due to a wrestler not being able to submit someone once he's on the ground, otherwise they usually end with a submission.

The only big name fighter I enjoy watching, is Pac, and thats because of his lightning quickness is amazing to watch. Mayweather is such an egomaniac it's hard to enjoy watching him knowing he's only in it for the big payday, and kind of dodged Pac, the only challenging fighter left in his weight class.
 
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