Christ. He requested a stream in General, which is against the forum's rules. Seriously, don't even discuss it in too much detail as anyone even HINTING at he existace of illegal streaming on this forum is being banned currently. Some legal issue.
Mendoza was a decent poster outside of his internet rivalries with mcvey & SuzieQ. I thought there was atleast one round where Sosnowski was being aggressive and Vitali did next to nothing. I didn't pay too much attention on the fight though and may be mistaken.
Thats the round I scored for Sosnowski clearly. Was it 3 or 4? there was one other round I gave him, but I think it was more due to giving him the benefit of the doubt more than anything else.
Are you sure? Do you remember when he made the thread about Ali wanting to quit vs Frazier? Or when he made a slew of bad arguements to why Vitali would beat Ali?
If it's a lengthy ban he'll be back under another handle. He produces good material on occasion, but I honestly think that his view is far to coloured by his love for Vitali and Jim J. As an example, i'd point out that he dismisses the NYSAC HW title held by Dempsey down to Frazier as the "New York State Title" whilst labelling Vitali a true champion for the trinkethe carries...and his insistance that Joe Louis owned referees and judges and was "only saved by a miracle"in Buddy Baer I were also to much for me to stomach. But he's certainly not as bad as some of those dudes at the other place. Yeah, I thought 4, but apparently it was 3, but even in that round Vitali did the cleaner work with the jab. It's a "what you like" round, and I scored it even (not normal for me).
He is definitely biased a lot of the time but he wasn't entirely clueless on boxing history either. Knew a lot about Jeffries and the other old timers, and seemed to have a decent collection of rare film.
Most certainly not. When you're used to posters like frankenfrank and others, Mendoza looks objective and fair in comparison. I did find his exaggeration of the Louis-Baer knockdown rather funny (Louis doing a "backflip" from Baer's punch), as well as some other posts he has written.
I don't know about the rest, but frankenfrank is very odd. He doesn't seem to care about actually watching boxing, but discusses it based on what he has read on BoxRec. He thinks the likes of Ross Puritty, Oliver McCall and David Tua are top class heavyweights, while Eddie Machen and Cleveland Williams are tomato cans.
General forum is going bat****. Front page has a one paragraph news-report and there are 100 comments attached already. I wish Haye and Vitali would just fight.
Mendoza was a good poster, not great, but 10 times better than someone like Pachilles. It's like Duran spit in his face or something.