BOXING - What Happened On This Day???????

The crap he pulled lowered the bar permanently for the sport. And he still doesn't give a fukk

 

I understand what your saying mate but you can't blame SRL for all this catchweight shut as it's been going on throughout the history of the sport . Do you hate Hopkins as much for dragging Pavlik up to What ? 170lbs ? Leonard was a player i'n the game not the game itself .

 

That was the problem with Leonard post '82...he thought he was the game

Catchweight fights should be non title IMO. Was Hopkins - Pavlik for a 175 title? If so, the authorities should be over-riding this garbage so not to give one fighter an unfair advantage

 

No mate Pavlik v Hopkins want for a title but my point was throughout history fighters in the driving seat call the shots , SRL wasn't the first and won't be the last , I used Hopkins as an example , When he fought Calzaghe for the Ring title he determine the weight , location , the nationality of the ref and judges he was acting as much a primadonna as SRL ever was but I hear no objections to it because it's Bhop .

 

Fighters demanding and receiving a pile of advantages has the effect of distorting boxing history and I don't like it. I'm not sure if Pavlik would have beaten Hopkins if there was a level playing field but Hopkins is now receiving plaudits as a top 5 middleweight based partly on fights such as this. He's nowhere near top 5 IMO but his (distorted) stats say he maybe should be

Fighters that make these demands are arseholes and fighters that accept them deserve to be beaten as they're usually doing it solely for the money. Short term gain to the detriment of the sport

No wonder people are looking to other combat sports rather than boxing. I'm not one of them but I've definitely gone off the sport in the past 10 or so years because of these types of issues

Yours sincerely

emeritus super wba/wbc/ibf/wbo/ibc/wbf etc etc titleholder in an undefined weight class

 

Great post Bollox , BH insisted on Pavlik skipping an entire weight division with his demands ( More fool team Pavlik IMO ) it does distort the history of the sport , left to me the sport would return to the original 8 divisions and the best fight the best if your a cruiserweight for example you either fight @ heavy or L/Heavy for example same would gave gone for Joe he would have had to fight at middle at the start then move up to L/ Heavy to finish .

 

With the HW's getting bigger over the year the cruiserweight division was always going to be needed at some point. 175 to say 230, is too big a jump. Look what happened to Bob Foster every time he took on the HW's

Yep, bringing back the original weight classes would be a good start. it's odd when thinking that in days gone by kids could name them all, and considered them heroes

 

Supermiddle is a division that had to happen...it's common for some blokes to be too big for middle...too small for Lightheavy.