Your unpopular boxing opinions

Yes deffo from Australia!!!! There's a few of us on here and there used to be more.

 

It was the dancing. The 1970s it was all about disco and Donna Summers
It was a great time in our lives. Well Pipino fell into that hard lifestyle. Dance battles when he shouldve heen training.
When Hearns landed that average right hand on Cuevas (wasn't much) I think the music came on. Sad story. After that fight Pipino wasnt even allowed in the club. Its as if Hearns knocked out Cuevas and disco with one shot.

 

Bwahahahahahaha!!!! As Sal in here used to say - "he liked to bewgie"!!!!!

 

That's okay, the first Duran-Leonard fight is still on YouTube. I have watched it multiple times. Tell me what I got wrong. You have all the time in the world.

 

Duran was great for pretty much an entire decade prior to that fight. Not really in line with your initial point regarding one or two hit wonders, is it?

 

I got into boxing when Do You Believe In Magic by The Loving Spoonful, A Lovers Concerto by The Toys, Baby I am Yours by Barbara Lewis, all from Nov 1965, when i saw the Ali vs Patterson from Nov 22 1965.

 

George Foreman is way overrated

 

Off the top of my head:


I don't think Montreal is that an entertaining watch.

If we just look at the action in the ring McCallum-Jackson is probably a better short all out action war than Hagler-Hearns.

The talk about Duran having a short camp and being in poor shape for New Orleans is BS.

Frazier was closer to his prime than Ali for all their fights.

Pac's performance against DLH was brilliant, and Oscar was not in such a state that it basically tells us nothing.

 

Great idea - we get to purge our inner demons . Here's a couple of mine-

Marciano KOs Tyson 100 outta 100 times
Kostya Tszyu KOs Mayweather late after making him hold, run and complain like a Shamba Mitchell

 

Unpopular? It is a fact , Frazier was in his peak in 1971

 

He sure was at his physical and mental peak., Ali had only two fights since returning from his 3 and a half year ban, 1967-1970. It was a very shrewd move to fight Muhammad Ali at that point in time rather than meet him in 1967.

 

Shrewd move? Frazier had no choice in either instance. Frazier and Durham wanted to fight Ali in 1967/68 and had moved to the top of the rankings but Ali got banned and stripped. They fought in 1971 because Ali's case was still up in the air and it was still very possible that he would again lose his license and not be able to fight again. Ali needed the money and Frazier had only one more mountain to climb, the goal he'd had since becoming a contender: Beat Ali. People always try to minimize Frazier's victory by claiming Ali needed more time to prepare. They ignore that hed been training with some of the best fighters in the world during his exile, had taken part in exhibitions in the leadup to and since returning, and had taken on the the number 1 and number 2 contender in succession and beaten both like nobody had ever beaten them. Its not like he'd gotten out of his deathbed to face Frazier.

 

Richard, I agree it was fortunate that Frazier did not fight the 1967 version of Ali, but I don't think you can chalk it up to shrewd strategy. The indictment against Ali for refusing induction was the reason the fight was delayed, not any shrewd strategic decision by Yank or Cloverlay. The indictment opened up the division to all the other heavyweights, and Frazier proved his worth as the best of the lot. Luck was on Joe's side as far as the timing of his match with Ali.