EVERYTHING is fixed! What is your reaction?!?

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by Glass City Cobra, May 9, 2023.


  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Well, people have been watching wrestling for years, getting caught up in it, so it would be pretty much the same as that.
     
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  2. Vic The Gambler

    Vic The Gambler Active Member Full Member

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    Haha!
    Time for the underground bunker I think because those people mean business. You’d even be looking at your nearest and dearest and wonder if they’ve been “got at” by “The Orgsnisation.” That morning coffee the wife brings you in bed could be a weapon of destruction.

    Trust nobody!
     
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  3. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    :lol: Don’t you worry - I’m checking for webbed fingers too! No stone unturned.
     
  4. BCS8

    BCS8 VIP Member

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    I'd stop watching. I'm here for reality not scripted WWE.
     
  5. Blofeld

    Blofeld Active Member Full Member

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    I would wonder why so many fights between superstars are so boring.
     
  6. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    I'd ask whether their template to fix Foreman-Frazier I was taken from the fight between Cool Hand Luke and Dragline.
     
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  7. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  8. Glass City Cobra

    Glass City Cobra H2H Burger King

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    The thing you're forgetting is people would sue not only for the money they lost, but also for emotional damages. The sheer number of angry boxing fans could bankrupt them.

    There would also be a handful of frustrated honest government officials who had to silently wait for such an opportunity while they're coworkers enjoyed spending their bribe money. They'd be quick to issue lawsuits and prosecutions.
     
  9. Glass City Cobra

    Glass City Cobra H2H Burger King

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    Well that's what Tyson said!
     
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  10. Roughhouse

    Roughhouse Active Member Full Member

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    You'd question how smart the fixers were since, as one poster already noted, there was so much money left on the table in many situations. Couldn't they think things through at least a little better?

    Then you'd wonder how many fixed fights didn't go as planned and when somebody went "rogue" and didn't follow the script. That would be a complicated rabbit hole of a maze to stumble into.

    Then you'd wonder why so many fighters ended up dying in the ring or ending up with irreversable brain damage for a worked sporting event. Somebody didn't smarten Duk-Koo Kim up? It'd make the tragedies even more tragic and unnecessary as there was nothing to risk so much for.

    Then you'd come to the conclusion that Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss was the smartest one in the game all along.

    Really smart thread btw...
     
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  11. Vic The Gambler

    Vic The Gambler Active Member Full Member

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    You’re right. That’s even more people who would need to be silenced by “The Organisation!”
     
  12. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'd switch to Sumo full time.
     
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  13. Blofeld

    Blofeld Active Member Full Member

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    OK greatest comment ever :D
     
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  14. Blofeld

    Blofeld Active Member Full Member

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    In a sense I think we live in this world already accept it covers everything not just boxing. Don't get me wrong I am not a conspiracy nutter myself but considering what many people believe for example regarding 9/11, Covid and the last US election we see perception and fact colliding and quite often facts and science are outgunned.

    Not sure if it has crossed over to US and rest of world but I recommend watching UK documentary maker Adam Curtis' film Hypernormalisation which outlines why things are so confusing and crazy these days. Your thread made me think of it!
     
  15. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    Well if every boxing match is a hoax then it probably doesent stop there. I would lose confidence that anything is real at all and down the rabbit hole we go.
     
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