20 questions boxing edition.

Wait when you say title… you mean just a belt qualifies? He isn’t “the man” F!!!!

 

I really liked the answers you had, I could’ve potentially got them and I’m borderline casual so I’d say it’s a nice enough mix for the mouth breathers like me to play alongside posters like @Saintpat who know there S I’d like it if @Seamus got in on this and @mcvey but I’d also wanna eventually wind up on the leader board LOL.

 

I think your picks are right on — if you’re going to go with well-known ATGs, probably it gets too easy. If you go too obscure (someone who never fought for a title and was maybe a fringe contender) it’s not much of a fun game because we’re just throwing darts in the dark.

Keep moving around your eras/weight classes/places of origin (although having multiple guys from the U.S. would be OK because there’s a higher number of possibles) so we can’t just zero in your ‘preferences’ or a pattern that might emerge.

I hope you’ll keep up the game. It’s a fun twist to our usual posts.

 

Bravo on your winning round.

I’d be leery about making guesses count because we only get 20 questions and if six or seven people guess (or some poster guesses multiple times) then we’re going to end up not getting enough guesses to have a chance. Yes, we do benefit from scratching off a possible guess (if I guess ‘Thomas Hearns’ and it’s not him, nobody else need guess him so he is eliminated) but I’m not sure that’s as valuable as getting a broader question like the ones we have been seeing.

Likewise, just my 2 cents. I think there’s merit to either approach.

 

That’s fair.

I would suggest this stipulation: Each poster only gets one guess per ‘round’ (as in each boxer you do this for is a round) and then they have to sit it out until the next round. I think it would ruin it if someone just decides to rapid-fire guesses.

 

It is perfect, keep it going

 

@Rubber Glove Sandwich mentioned on last page that after all 20 questions are already asked - He'll still give us 5 guesses, so I sort of had that in mind - but I like Your suggestion of 1 free guess per round per person even more. It would add a nice little strategic aspect to it, where on one hand You don't want to set up other person to win with Your question, but on the other hand You have only one shot so have to aim carefully ).

I would also like to give a really obscure boxer a try at one point as an experiment. Curious if We'd stand a chance.

 

Part of the strategy is also when to shoot your arrow … if you wait too long, someone else migh beat you to it; but if you have it down to say 2-3 good guesses, maybe you want to ask one more question to eliminate one or two of those you are still considering.

Once it hit me that Sugar Rojas was still ‘alive’ since he was Cuban rather than Mexican (duh), I almost asked if the boxer was Cuban … but went ahead with my guess because if the answer was yes it might tip off others who could respond before I did.

Makes for a lively game.

 

Is your boxer an alien this time?

(If so, my guess is Bernard Hopkins.)