Classic Forum Desert Island Discs

Roberto Durán Vs Sugar Ray Leonard I 5 times, just so i can stand up and clap in the end of my fifth rewatch as the sun consumes me and i die from dehydration

 

If I’m stuck on a desert island, just give me Maryanne, then I’m all good. If she’s up for it, I’ll get to see her box anyway.

 

Playing the arrogant bad guy ? That ain’t chess, it’s checkers on training wheels. Ali was playing that game before uncle Roger was even born, he just didn't live in Floyd's economically inflated era, much less with the crazy media exposure from HBO, ESPN etc. If Ali rolled around today, he’d have way more than Floyd’s paper, no doubt.

Floyd blew like 18 million on a watch and 3 million on a pet tiger to make people think he was as bad as Mike Tyson. That ain't business savvy. That's monopoly played on meth, straight up.

You ever listen to his interviews ? It’s like listening to a fortune cookie that got lost in translation , ‘hard work,’ 'dedication', 'smart investments', 'helluva competitor', 'hungry young lion', 'at the end of the day', ‘focus,’ ‘grind.’ Real groundbreaking and world affecting stuff, I tell ya.

I'm not saying Floyd's dumb because he's illiterate. I'm just saying he's dumb and illiterate. Smart enough to make money, dumb enough to never teach anyone how. And that’s the damn truth.

 

You sound like a silly hater, he spends his money on whatever because he can, you should enjoy the high life especially when most pay the price by 55-60… Floyd’s got some sort of cunning and smarts to be a great boxer and a great money maker end of, both of those things require intelligence I’m not saying he can teach you, that he’s a witty conversationist or an originator but he knew what he was doing and it had the results he wanted. In the real world he won, won at legacy, won at boxing, won at wealth - he has a brain.

EDIT: I don’t like Mayweather, I think he’s annoying, I think he’s overrated and his skills are only “borderline” great - big fish, little era like a P4P version of Marciano.

 

If I'm really stuck on a desert island, I'm probably picking at least one or two fights based on the ring girls' performances.