I was just creating another opportunity for one of my famous putdowns of that clown. This thread should really be about Ali. He always called himself the prettiest.
i thought it was lovely to watch seeing him knocking guys out with beatiful combination punches and fast hand speed. mike was more than just a slugger in his younger days. he was a work of art
this thread is not about who was the most beautiful boxer. its about who you found most attractive to watch
whitaker was a lovely boxer, but was he the type of boxer whose fights you watch over and over again. on the other hand i cannot get enough of watching tyson, de la hoya, ttito and robinson sparking opponents
for anybody who didn't know that tyson could box, watch these videos: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6TiOvDf00 http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sxJbEuaNgw did you ever see sweet pea do anything as spectacular as what iron mike did in the latter video.
Uh, Sweat Pea did his best work against Hall of Fame lightweights and welterweights. Not Reggie Gross.
good thread. the point i am making is that whitaker never had the whow factor despite all his skills. whitaker was never highlight reel material
Beauty is as subjective/objective as anything else imo. If you claim any truth as a truth, you can have anyone turn around and say, that's subjective, or relative, or whatever and then you get into the problem of trying to justify the belief upon something foundational which ultimately ends up being itself open to criticism/doubt. But in any case, I don't think I'll be able to convince you about Whitaker looking more beautiful on film than Pep. I will say though, that I also think that people overdo what they make of Robinson on film. We have a lot of Robinson on film, and a few fights in his prime as well, but the middleweight Robinson we see is not the greatest fighter of all time, no matter what people believe.
Have you seen any highlight reels of Whitaker? I know it doesn't amount to getting hit ten times by Reggie Gross and then knocking him out, but check this out: [yt]yjTHLPmfBCQ[/yt]
He had some of the best highlights reels out there with his defensive maneuvers and counter-punching skills, and all out boxing clinics. KO'ing somebody isn't all there is to a highlight reel.
You really are sad. I know you're a ghetto butt-thug who is certain to have taken many ass-poundings in the slammer by "Bubba", but is taking it out on an internet forum really the answer? Seek help, maybe you can get the 15 year old boy from your neighborhood you speak so much about in the Lounge to protect your ass(literally).
I'm no relativist. They ultimately hang themselves with their own misguided logic. I would also assert that some things are indeed necessarily subjective like your choice of ice cream or taste in music. Other things are not so subjective and can at least approach an identifiable objective standard, unless one's mind is a sieve. Some arguments are simply more weighty than others. In America, we are are dumbing down the whole nation in the name of some badly defined version of "tolerance" and "respect" - we offend reason & rationality to spare feelings. It's sick. Anyway back to the point. Someone arguing that Ray Leonard was greater than Sugar Ray Robinson offends my intellect, not my taste. Agreed.