Boxing a unique sport...

Noooooooooob


Why is it your second favorite? It should be your favorite!!!

 

Boxing matches are few and far between, decent ones at least, so it's hard to discuss current stats. In the major sports teams play between 16 and 162 games per year so there are alot of current games to talk about, we have to talk about history because top guys only fight 2 or 3 times a year and prospects depending on what level between 4 and 8 fights a year. Also boxing matches have more of a historical impact, big fights are giant events that we'll remember forever in great detail, also because they are so rare.

 

Noob. Boxing KO1 Soccer.

 

I think baseball is the only sport that even comes near it in this aspect.

 

:rofl:rofl

 

Cricket as well. Both sports where you can look back on the stats (bowling/batting figures) for very nearly every player for last 100 years.
Cricket is my favourite sport btw. Even my crappy stats for some village team i played for last year are recorded on some database online!

 

Does history not have the same relevance in football? Unless you're a Chelsea fan then I would suggest it does.

Best ever player discussions? Pele, Maradona, Cruyff. Best ever team discussions? Real Madrid from the fifties, Brazil from the seventies, Liverpool from the eighties. Best ever manager discussions? Alf Ramsay, Nigel Clough, Matt Busby.

Same old names always come up. I dont think boxing is unique in this respect.

 

Boxing is alot like Tennis. Other sports are different because its the team that wins, not the individual. In boxing and tennis, the individual athlete wins or loses. And its not like golf or swimming or some of these other individual sports because in boxing and tennis, how you perform directly affects how your opponent can perform.

Also, in both these sports you need strength, endurance, stamina, strategy, agility, perseverance, adaptability, hard training, natural talent. However in boxing you need more. Boxing is more raw. Boxing is sport at its rawest form while still being under control.

in tennis history is also brought up all the time. Greats are compared constantly as well as their achievements


other combat sports are obviously more similar to boxing than tennis. But of non-combat sports, I think tennis is the closest.

 

. . NOOB??? I dont think so.

Boxing is just a sport, where a particular champ may exist for 3 months or 11 years.

Any world champ is going to be compared to the last dozen, or next 20 champs.

Times change, people do not. Styles change, courage does not.

That 'courage' mat not be exposed as often, yet, its there in the heat of battle.

Whatever the sport.

 

Brian is overrated. The ex Liverpool forward is the man!

 

Raider Nation shout out!