BOXING and the Deterioration of Society...

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I don't think he pretends to be a psycho at all. I believe he wants to kill someone in the ring.

I've covered this already, a couple of times.

Nah, totally disagree. Love some bristle at a press-conference if that is how fighters feel.

I also disagree with you when you say it's about "a bit of attention." I'ts about who they are, and that should be obvious. This is why some fighters never have a confrontation at a press-conference and others have one at every press conference and why.

It is true that fighters tend to be more confrontational in fights where they are in with an opponent with a chance to beat them, and when the stakes are much higher in terms of prize. This is much more significant than the attention they are getting otherwise.

Where the attention does matter is in losing face. Alpha-male millionaire athletes are obsessed with how they are seen, always have been, and hate to be made to look foolish. So if they are in a room with 100 people their behaviour will be different to when they are in a room with 3. This is near-universal but hyper-infalted before a massive physical confrontation, that should be obvious enough.

I could see how it might be "looking for a bit of attention" in the eyes of some though, though I believe them to be flat out wrong. The weigh-in is twenty-four hours before you start hurling punches at a man who has been indirectly training to kill you. I think there are matters far more pressing than "getting a little attention."

Well i'm glad I could disabuse you of the notion.

Sounds awful. But as I said pages ago, your preference is your preference and two sober adults shaking hands and stepping on the scales is as much a matter of taste as anything else I suppose and would explain why you like weigh-ins from 1920-1960 so much

 

You can see that anytime you feel like it, just tune in to the right builds ups. Both the Gonzalez-Estrada fights were like that, every Inoue fight is like that, and etc. There are hundreds of build ups like that every year.

They're really cool.

But, IMO, it's also nice that every single one isn't exactly like that, and that you can see the other side of some of these fighters, will to dominate incarnated in a different way.

The Calzaghe alpha-smirk.

Some of the wilder Hopkins patter was amazing. When he grabbed the Puerto Rican flag and threw it to the floor that time...holy ****, I have never seen anything like that in any walk of life

SO you can see your cold killers shakig hands all you like, and will be able to until you stop watching. That's not a problem at all.

 

It's especially cool when it's intertwined with some part of the fighter's character but it was very cool when Rhonda Rousey made a point of not shaking then got absolutely hammered

 

I think the fights are just as violent. They aren't as long.

 

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So great. Even Lady Gaga getting in about it

 

Yeah, you're right, that one hurts too because Ali and Liston are actually in the ring. The guys who changed it are in the ring. Louis is a man out of time and nothing else underlined it more firmly, I'm glad you reminded me of this because I noticed it heavily too.

Joe's behavior in his prime was in essence a symptom of his repression. He might have been delighted to behave like he did but it would have been really difficult for him to behave any other way.

 

I don't think Roxborough's Rules contained anything about how you treat African-American media.