Best year in boxing since it began fading away?!?!

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  1. achillesthegreat

    achillesthegreat FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Full Member

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    For me, post Ali, the game begun to die. It all became so business orientated i.e. how much can you earn, what division out of the 17 can you jump to, what will TV allow etc

    The 80s was perhaps the final era, where despite being business orientated, fans mostly got what they wanted. Promoters and fighters couldn't totally take fans for a ride just yet. Generally Holmes dominated the division, as did Tyson, Leonard, Hagler, Duran and co all made sure the small fighters were making major moves that really defined careers. The cracks were there though and they were getting wider.

    Boxing slowly began to fall into a coma. You remembered big fights but so many titles, divisions, lack of big fights and it all began to fell apart. Boxing was no longer the force it once was.

    I look at combat like this. If I'm in the street and theres a bball game, some footie and a fight - where is the crowd going to be? The allure is there. You got two forms of competition - mental and physical. Combat is still the ultimate physical test. You have a mirror (human being with two arms and legs) trying to stop you succeed, not nature or a machine.

    Nevertheless, I come to my point - this year has been sensational. More 50-50 fights then maybe any year since the 70s and prior.

    Some **** in the pipeline...

    Calzaghe-Kessler
    PAC-MAB II
    Hatton-Floyd
    Taylor-Pavlik
    Mormeck-Haye
    Cotto-Mosley
    Hell even the heavyweights are sorting their **** out

    In just that little list you see six 50-50 fights but each with their own story. The true champ risking it all versus the dangerous mandatory, the old school rematch when the first fight should have left no doubts, the coming of one true king be it P4P or in a division and the young gun versus the vet in a crossroads fight!

    2007 is shaping up to be something I'll tell my kids about! Enjoy it.
     
    achillesthegreat, Jul 25, 2007
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  2. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    i dont know i think there have been good boxing events all the time but the life blood has been the word champion...meaning winner,the best,top dog,the owner of the division....and then split them up?!

    i personally dont mind belt orgs not as bad as they seem but now that boxing promoters are noticing that unifications are the big seller then we will really get moving.

    on the wieght divisions i like them at the lower wieghts it segregates them. but light welter ,super middle ,super feather , cruiserwieghts are maybe the most exciting divisions. think about it a middlewieght that goes to light heavy he will not be the right build and size. there is a big differnece and super middlewieght leaves a place where boxers can fight at another wieght not to far form the original.so not to damage the skills and abilties but also alowing them to fight men who are willing to go down in wieght.

    but apart from that... amen brother :amen
     
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  3. Slothrop

    Slothrop Boxing Junkie banned

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    I've thought the same thing. This has been a great year for boxing.
     
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  4. achillesthegreat

    achillesthegreat FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Full Member

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    Time to further prove the point. Browsed some sites are Mosley-Cotto, Tarver-Dawson and Maskaev-Peter are new fights to tickle your taste buds!!! It is July and boxing is getting 50-50 fights booked up until the end of the year.
     
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  5. Jose FM

    Jose FM Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Great year indeed!
     
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  6. 0-1

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    You're absolutely right about this year; it just seems to be getting better and better!
     
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  7. Slicknick56

    Slicknick56 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Max Kellerman once said the same thing. interesting.

    agree with the post though.
     
    Slicknick56, Jul 25, 2007
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  8. psychopath

    psychopath D' "X" Factor Full Member

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    With the big names fighting each other this year . . . I believe this is true.:good
     
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  9. Martini643

    Martini643 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    2003 by far
     
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  10. Toopretty

    Toopretty Custom made Full Member

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    I mean...boxing made new fans this year.. I mean you got casuals interested.. Good year for boxing period...all the match ups we wanted to see. Do you guys remember how long we were talking about Floyd/Hatton. I mean I cannot count the articles after the tsyu win..lol....this is the times we will remember in the future. Especially if there are upsets and close fights and the UNEXPECTED
     
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  11. MSTR

    MSTR More Speed Than Roy!!!!! Full Member

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    Great post. Has been an awesome year for boxing. Kess vs JC and Cotto vs Mosley are going to be unbeleivable fights. I can't wait. GO COTTO!!!!
     
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  12. theunderdog

    theunderdog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    yeah dude. 2007 is a killer year
     
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  13. MSTR

    MSTR More Speed Than Roy!!!!! Full Member

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    Why so?
     
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  14. Martini643

    Martini643 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I just remember being blown away by Lewis klitschko and gatti ward III
     
    Martini643, Jul 25, 2007
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  15. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    I agree with the assertion that this has been a great year for boxing, but I am not sure that I agree that it began to "die" after Ali retired. Even the immediate post-Ali era had some great fighters - and fights - in the lower weight classes. One of the most exciting fights, which had a build-up as big for its time as Mayweather-DeLaHoya, was the first Leonard-Hearns fight. And who could forget the Hagler-Hearns war in the middle of the decade.

    Shortly after this, you saw the rise of Tyson and the renaissance of the HWs, the comeback of Big George, Dougals's upset, the Holyfield-Bowe wars, the first Holyfield-Tyson fight etc. The 90s, particularly in the HW division, was a good period also. I think we overshoot a bit in contending that boxing has simply been on a straight decline since Ali retired. What is probably more accurate is that there have been peaks and valleys.
     
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