-Jim Lampley creating his own dialogue between the fighters. "Erik Morales looks at Manny Pacquiao and says 'you're fighting at 130 now. Welcome to my neighborhood!!'" Yeah, I'm sure that's what Morales was thinking at that exact moment. -People crying robbery because a fighter lost a decision in which the majority of people had it 7-5 or 6-5-1 and there were close rounds in it. -People that talk about the "good old days" but know little about it. You often see posters yapping about "remember the old days when people didn't care about money?" and then they bring up Sugar Ray Robinson of all people. "Fighters in the past never got avoided like today". Yeah, guys like Archie Moore, Eddie Booker, Lloyd Marshall, Holman Williams, Sam Langford, Harry Wills...boy they just had offers for title fights all over, didn't they? -People watching like one or two fights of a fighter and then thinking those fights defined the styles of that fighter, for a whole career, and that they ALWAYS fought that way. How many times do you see people saying crap like "my god, Hagler was such a fierce slugger, always coming forward", or a matchup with a prime Hopkins involved and people say "Hopkins only throws a punch every 2 minutes"?? Way too often. I suppose years from now may watch Mayweather-Judah and think PBF was always a pressure fighter, or Mayweather's fight with Corley and think PBF got a tad reckless in every fight. -Press conference boxing fans. "Oh my god, so and so called out so and so". So and so must be scared because didn't fight this guy who mentioned him in a post-fight interview. Fools thinking boxing is an episode of The Wire and every fighter is Marlo Stanfield. "Ah, he called out my name, now I must step to him or else I look like a b!tch!!". And then there are the "Legendary Nights" boxing fans as well. -People that are bigger fans of particular fighters than the sport itself.
People who criticize a fighter they hate for doing or saying something that they let pass without comment when another fighter they like does/ says the same sort of thing.
I love Harold Lederman, but he's getting too damn old to commentate. He needs to school Lennox Lewis so he can take over for him, because Lewis needs the coaching, then we can all be happy. Max Kellerman makes me want to curb-stomp a dalmation. Every time I see him I want to go "Around the Horn" on his face. **** just isn't that exciting Max, and stop spitting everydamnwhere. Sho-Box Commentators couldn't be any worse, it's like they picked these guys up at little-league ballparks after hearing them on the loudspeakers. Fighters taking rounds off. When it's so damn obvious that they are doing exactly that. Look *******, you've trained for HOW LONG for this fight? You can't at least give a little effort throughout each round? Don't take the whole round off... A fighter who has the points lead running around the ring like a ***** for the last minute of the last round, and the idiot he's fighting chasing him throwing haymakers like it's an open bar brawl. People who write sports articles for years trash talking boxers, then when the very same boxers retire they talk about them fondly. I hate those assholes.
- Max Kellerman, trying to spread his boxing knowledge makes classic references but he does it bad. - OK JIM! (No, I still like him) - People who always criticize fighters but NEVER went in the ring or received a blow. We would have way less douchebags on the forum if they had a real boxing experience - People overrating modern-day fighters against old-timers - People overrating old-timers against modern-day fighters - Teddy Atlas
One of my pet peeves is the multiple "championship belts" in every weight class which undermines the integrity of the word champion.
That would not be as bad, but the 4 belt holders are sometimes not even the 4 best fighters in the division and the rankings are so varied between the sanctioning bodies it's a total joke.
Bad smacktalking (eg Mayweather/de la Hoya) Bad nicknames (eg 'Money' Mayweather) atsch When a fighter is acclaimed as the best in the world, but refuses to fight the best fighters in his division, and for some reason still has hundreds of fans who spam threads all over the internet defending him, even if he himself says boxing is not about fighting the best and is just to make money. I can't think of any examples of this.
what if that what if this with a decisive answer as if we havent learned all these years, we dont know!