Tattooed fighters

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  1. GordonGarner65

    GordonGarner65 Active Member Full Member

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    I would ban them.
    Watching some fights tonight .
    All garbage and all covered in ink.
    Ended up back on utube.
    Hate tattoos.
    Probably showing my age but they seem to reflect drop In modern standards.
    Detest them on women.
    Cant remember any of my classic fighters having them , although I'm sure someone will give examples.
    Slightly off topic , senior moment .....
     
  2. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    My kids have them, and while I don’t really find them aesthetically pleasing to behold (and quite thankfully my wife does not have any)...they really don’t bother me a whole lot.

    personally I don’t have any....c’mon bro you don’t put a bumper sticker on a Mercedes lol
     
  3. GordonGarner65

    GordonGarner65 Active Member Full Member

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    I just hate them...cheap trashy...
     
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  4. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    trashy? Is a matter of opinion and likely derived from generational and cultural perceptions and stereotypes....cheap.....no way I know what my kids and nieces and nephews pay....cheap is one thing they ain’t lol
     
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  5. Abysmal Brute1981

    Abysmal Brute1981 Member banned Full Member

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    I agree GG. One tattoed fighter and it stuck out Alexis Arguello.
     
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  6. The Undefeated Lachbuster

    The Undefeated Lachbuster I check this every now and then Full Member

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    Tom Sharkey's tattoo looked badass. That is my only exception
     
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  7. Mike Gould

    Mike Gould Member Full Member

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    I always remember looking kind of sideways at Tommy Morrison's tiny jungle cat tattoo. Kind of funny now looking back as today guys (and girls) entire bodies are canvases for all kinds of ink. Really the first fighter I remember (besides young Mike Tyson's tiny upper arm script), to sport a tattoo. Much more innocent time lol.
     
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  8. joebeadg

    joebeadg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I hate those things especially on girls, I thought I was alone on that
     
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  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Bobo Olson was inked up.
     
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  10. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I honestly dont see the problem, as long as it’s not making them any less of a fighter who cares? We have Johnny Tapia, Winky Wright, Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, and Vasyl Lomachenko who are tattooed up but are still great fighters.
     
  11. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    And now Tyson s face ink!!
     
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  12. GordonGarner65

    GordonGarner65 Active Member Full Member

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  13. GordonGarner65

    GordonGarner65 Active Member Full Member

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    Lol, I thought it was just me showing my age.
    I see pretty young girls at the gym, then they take off their jacket limbs are covered in tatoos , I just think , why ? Have you done that.
    They do nothing to enhance anyones appearance.
     
  14. Abysmal Brute1981

    Abysmal Brute1981 Member banned Full Member

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    They better stay at the gym the rest of their lives or they will have the That's My Boy effect. Lol
     
  15. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Who cares? It's Boxing, of all things.
     
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