Guess I'm old school cause I'd rather watch a boxing match than a dancing exhibition. No doubt he has skills, but if he didnt spend all his time acting like a dick he probably wouldn't have ended up on the wrong side of those decisions.
If he'd been any different, he wouldn't have been EA. I also think though that as the outright robberies added up, and he was brought in as the "opponent" more and more often, he became fatalistic to the point where he enjoyed pissing off the the judges as much as he enjoyed entertaining the fans. Sometimes I felt exactly the way you did watching him, but you've got to realize, most of the time he was "acting like a dick", he was also doing everything that wins rounds. Clean punching, effective aggression, defense, ring generalship. Once you got past HOW he was doing it, it became clear how damned effective he was doing it. Frankly, I think his career "failure" boils down to the fact that he scared the sh*t out of people.
I agree with this. My point being that it takes a special person to be able to showboat and win people over. Most people just come off as cocky pricks. Case in point, most of us love RJJ for the crazy **** he was able to do, but we chastised Calzaghe for trying to clown Hopkins and Jones. He just couldnt pull it off and he looked like a freaking ****.
haha, yeah true. but judges shouldn't be swayed by that ****. they're paid to be objective. WE can rag on people but they can't
:rofl Well said. The Marquis of Queensbury has needed guidelines for showboating for a long time. I feel another thread coming.
He wa scheduled to fight a Samuel Colomban guy in Australia on june 20 but it didn't happen. I think the old Drunken Master danced his last dance in november at the Garden. Good ending though,at the Mecca of Boxing on PPV.
very entertaining fighter but he gets somewhat overrated everywhere hes definetely much better than what his record implies, but EA is not a championship calibur fighter even if hes 100% mentally focused and determined at his best hes on the same level as Micky Ward
Overrated, but fun guy to watch. For every "robbery" he legit lost 2 or 3 fights. He never applied himself the way he should have, but he got better as time went on. He liked to do just enough to lose most of the time... and by the time he got confidence that he could actually win fights and get a shot it was too late.. time had caught up.