I'm not here much. I'm not one of the foremost experts on anything boxing-related on these boards. I'm just Shakey, and if for some reason, somehow, you'd like my opinion on anything, you can ask, and I will answer. Honestly, fully and without sugarcoating or being controversial for the hell of it. Hi. :roll:
Tommy Morrison is HIV positive. It's much more likely that he managed to fake testing negative than for two tests to falsely report him positive. There are a lot of masking drugs available, originally developed to hide the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Francis Botha is boxing in South Africa. He had a match a couple of months ago.
Nan, my real name is Sjaak, it's a nickname. Someone came up with it when I was twelve and it stuck. My chin is pretty good. Everything else sucks to high heaven except my straight right, though, which is securely at the journeyman-of-pedestrians level.
Now,now don't be a knob , the guy is a senior member and has answered the first 2 questions quite well
Yes, I am a nub, unlike you, mister message board superstar. Go you! I think Taylor is going to win. I'm big on handspeed -- it decides more matches than any other single factor, I believe. I'm rooting for Pavlik, though, and I've put down all my v-points on the upset.
Nope, Mayweather isn't gay. Not even the in-the-closet-but-married-to-a-woman kind. Definitely not the type. He is way too unexciting to watch being the worlds greatest pugilist and all, but he'll retire with a fully functional brain and a healthy bankroll. If nothing else, he'll make it out of a dangerous sport with all of the good and none of the bad.
Kassim Ouma is actually a member of the Bee-Eye-Aye, an intelligence agency dedicated to determine which of the ring girls typically used in high profile matches was responsible for infecting Tommy Morrison with HiV. Currently, all signs point to a sexual orgy gone terribly wrong involving Evander Holyfield, Steven Taylor, a midget and only one hypodermic needle.
There is a luck-factor to everything in sports, as coincidences influence every single second. There are not only lucky punches, but lucky footwork, lucky dodges, lucky chin, you name it. The angle at which a blow strikes you and the position you coincidentally had your head at the time may enable you to take a punch you otherwise wouldn't have. A thunderous shot you aimed at someone's chin may go horribly awry and squarely hit the temple flush. You might decide to circle left and coincidentally, your opponent had just decided to launch a big left hook which is now easy to doge because of your momentum...or he throws a right and catches you against your motion. But luck is relative and really hard to measure. In the end, I believe, nothing is 'all luck', and nothing is without it.