Why is The Boxing Community so Nostalgic Compared to Other Sports Communities?

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  1. It's Ovah

    It's Ovah I am very feel me good. Full Member

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    What's your opinion of modern woke Hollywood? Rings of Power better than Jackson's LOTR? Little Mermaid remake superior to the 1989 version?
     
  2. box33

    box33 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah it's all bad man especially the remakes no one wants, they just did one for White Men Can't Jump & it looked overly try hardy, sad, cringe all at the same time.
     
  3. VanBasten

    VanBasten Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol: It was a question,. I’m not sure how you missed that; i even ended with a question mark to try and make it obvious for you, you thick twat.
     
  4. Manning

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    Toney and McCallum were both on ‘roids. Terrible example.
     
  5. brown-bomber

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    How about due to the fact that a boxing bout is so much more absolute than other sports. In other sports you have titans playing each other all the time. How many games in the NBA finals? How many times have Federer and Nadal played each other in a grand slam final? Your team played 65 games this year?!
    So much in boxing is about timing, the handing over of the torch, the if onlys and hypotheticals. It lends itself to nostalgia quite easily if you ask me.
     
  6. Loudon

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    I haven’t heard of Mike being on PEDS.

    No, it isn’t a terrible example.

    I picked them because they both had amazing technical skills.


    Yes, PEDS make you train harder and recover quicker.

    But guys are always going to have a certain style.

    Some guys have great technical skills.

    Some guys have basic skills.

    No amount of PEDS are drastically going to change their technical ability.


    James Toney, Mike McCallum, Sumbu Kalambay, Michael Nunn and Reggie Johnson etc, all had superior technical ability to today’s group of MW’s. And it wasn’t because they were on PEDS.
     
  7. bandeedo

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    dont know if youre referring to me, but this intellectual has beat down more asses than youve talked **** to.
     
  8. Fisty_Cuffs_21

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    1. Fighters fight infrequently. And, so the sport moves relatively slow compared to say football. There isn't an abundant supply of fights so us fans have to look back through the archive and feed our need to learn & be entertained with quality boxing.
    2. Boxing is an individual sport, fighters are their own brand (not a team sport).
    3. Genuine 50-50, high level fights are a rarity.
     
  9. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    **** off, you little know nothing twerp.
     
  10. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm not sure, when I have played devils advocate here, for the sake of argument.

    Is it when I don't agree Tommy Burns would beat Deontay Wilder? Or Billy Conn would KO Usyk? Or that Marvin Hart would walk through Frank Bruno, almost like he wasn't even there? And how about Corbett beating Tua... or when I had the audacity to suggest, that if more than 50 different men were able to outpoint Fritzie Zivic then, surely, it wouldn't be unrealistic to think, that Mayweather could do the same thing!

    Am I being argumentative, If I don't agree with these things?
     
  11. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    theres as many that dont fit the profile as there are those that do, meaning it dont mean ****, other than as an insinuation bout something else.
     
  12. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    perhaps youre right, upon further reflection, maybe im being a bit contentious.
     
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  13. Manning

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    That’s just a mental comment. Technical ability comes from refining your craft through thousands of hrs in the gym. Which is enormously aided by ‘roids. All fighters are on gear. It makes a massive difference to what you are watching.
     
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  14. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I don't disagree that the best doesn';t fight the best when they should but that is on the promoters. My gripe is the fact that we think that it's a forgone conclusion that fighters from the past would beat fighters in the present. Let's take Shakur Stevenson for example. In a fantasy math up between him and Manny, many would pick Manny due to him being more "accomplished" but stylistically Shakur would be a horrible matchup for Pac, due to foot movement, defense, counterpunching, jab, and inside fighting.
     
  15. BoxingIQ

    BoxingIQ Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I remember when people were saying that Loma maybe P4P 5 when it comes to skills and many people on this board disagreed but let's looks at some mathups:
    Loma vs Leonard
    Loma vs Mayweather
    Loma vs Hagler
    Loma vs Ali

    Now, did any of these guys face a fighter that possessed the combination of atleticism, strength, jab, defense, ability to fight in range, and foot work like Loma? No. So why should they be favoured over him