Fill the gap

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by Jel, Aug 8, 2021.

  1. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Complete the gap in the following sentence:
    "If you don't like ______, you don't really appreciate classic boxing."

    I look forward to wildly diverging and unprovable statements from everyone!

    And if you want to write FACT! in caps after your subjective statement, don't let me stop you...
     
  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    If you don't like arguing about size, inches, how far those inches go, what those inches mean, the reaction those extra inches get, the full realisation of those inches to fistic completion, you don't really appreciate classic boxing.
     
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  3. Showstopper97

    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    This is not my personal opinion, but of many posters on here. "If you don't like old school fighters more than modern fighters, you don't really appreciate classic boxing".
     
  4. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If you don't like putting the room to sleep, talking about how criminally underrated Alex Blanchard was, you don't really appreciate classic boxing.


    But seriously the answer is abstraction.
     
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  5. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well most would suggest modernism ran from the 1890s to the late 1970s, so I think the statement is simply not true.


    Postmodern, they may have a better point...
     
  6. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    If you don't like communism you do not appreciate classic boxing
     
  7. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    But on a serious note- If you do not appreciate Mayweather call him yellow, boring ect. you cannot appreciate classic boxing, all the subtle often missed things we love In fighters like Charles are the epitome of the old pugilist breed in which Floyd fits in with.
     
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  8. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    @janitor
     
  9. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    History.
     
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  10. djanders

    djanders Boxing Addict Full Member

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    "If you don't like reading about Sam Langford, you don't really appreciate classic boxing."
    :deal:
     
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  11. Stiches Yarn

    Stiches Yarn Active Member Full Member

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    If you don't like primo Carnera, you don't appreciate classic boxing.
     
  12. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Skills
     
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  13. GOAT Primo Carnera

    GOAT Primo Carnera Member of the PC Fan Club Full Member

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    Fixed.
     
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  14. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If you don’t like fill-in-the-blank threads, you don’t appreciate classic boxing.
     
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  15. Stiches Yarn

    Stiches Yarn Active Member Full Member

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    Can't believe i forgot that, what a shape!!!!
    Thank you!!
     
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