How old are you and how long have you been watching boxing?

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  1. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm tired of noobs saying "I watched boxing since 1975" and all this stuff.

    I'm 44 years old and have been watching the sport pretty regularly since the early 1980's. I watched Hagler-Hearns live (on free tv in the USA) when it happened in 1985 and I remember it pretty clearly from watching it at the time.

    How long have you been watching the sport?
     
  2. Lincoln Haines

    Lincoln Haines Member Full Member

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    Most of these guys are lying. I'm 39 and I've been watching boxing since I was 5. Remember the 84 olympics when I was 7. Was 19 during the 96 olympics and I know why you made this thread. And what I have to say about that is GGG is doing nothing I haven't seen from Julian Jackson or Gerald Mcclellan. Both of whom would have knocked him completely out
     
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  3. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I love Jackson and McClellan, especially Jackson.

    Jackson definitely isn't beating GGG. Doesn't have the skills to do it. Power alone isn't beating GGG. If your gameplan to beat GGG is to use power, you're in trouble. GGG's chin is too good for that.

    McClellan maybe. He was awesome, had the height, had the power. McClellan could have beaten anyone.

    My guess is GGG beats them both, but I would give McClellan a chance to win because of height, reach, skill and power (which would help keep GGG off of him).
     
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  4. GoldenArms

    GoldenArms Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Jackson was too chinny to beat Triple G imo
     
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  5. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Good stuff, man.

    I don't agree with you on Jackson, but cool info on your training and boxing viewing habits!

    Jackson was just such a fun fighter to watch. Pure entertainment. I loved watching him fight.

    The problem with Jackson was his chin. Look, if he could regularly land on GGG sure he could win. The problem for Jackson is that GGG can really box when he wants to. If he wants to make you miss, he can. Like he did against Lemieux. I just don't think GGG lets Jackson hit him and my guess is eventually GGG lands a big shot on Jackson. Jackson's biggest flaw was his chin.
     
  6. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Exactly. You beat me to it.
     
  7. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It wasn't just you. There was another guy, too. But yes, you were part of it.

    :ARMS1:
     
  8. Lincoln Haines

    Lincoln Haines Member Full Member

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    Though Jackson was chinny, that has nothing to do with GGG taking his shots :lol. We're talking about a man that had the bodysnatcher seriously hurt and even Roy Jones many years later in 97 couldn't hurt him in his 40s and washed up. If he lands flush more than once, GGG is snoring. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Jackson hits harder than Kell brook and Willie Monroe, but that's just my opinion.
     
  9. Lincoln Haines

    Lincoln Haines Member Full Member

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    but you're only 5 years older than me haha.
     
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  10. GoldenArms

    GoldenArms Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    I'll be 30 in Nov. Been watching boxing for as long as I can remember with my Dad and older brother, but I didn't get hardcore into the sport til I was in middle school, around 12-13. That's when I started watching every boxing event on tv, buying old fight tapes, watching espn classic fights with Ali, SRR, Duran, etc and started researching fighters on the internet and getting on these boxing forums
     
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  11. likeafire

    likeafire Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Very true im tired of them lying.

    I'm 115 and I been watching boxing for 95 years. Ask me anything
     
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  12. GoldenArms

    GoldenArms Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    I think it would've been a war but I usually lean towards the guy with a better beard in a battle of punchers. I think Triple G was a more skilled fighter than Jackson too, but The Hawk had better 1 shot power.
     
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  13. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Jackson chin wasn't that bad actually, he was stopped on his feet against both McCallum and McClellan, he was past his prime in the rest of his losses, his biggest flaw was when a fighter with a good chin put pressure on him and Golovkin is awesome at that, McCallum said that he was afraid of putting pressure on Jackson, but in some point he hit Jackson and Jackson didn't hit back, so he knew he needed to put pressure on him, the thing is that McCallum skills are better than GGG, but i like your argument for GGG.
     
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  14. cslb

    cslb Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hagler v Hearns wasn't on free tv in the U.S. It was on closed circuit.
     
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  15. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    I'm 92 years old, been watching boxing since February 2016. How I've missed 91years of my life without it. I hope I'm still around too see Kovalev vs ward, and klitchko vs fury 2.