DLH-Forbes presser pic.

Oh, I'm not worried about Forbes' health!

It just sucks that he's basically being whored into fighting a near-certain losing fight, like Ike Quartey was whored into fighting a near-certain losing fight against Wright. Both guys deserve better than that. Let them just fight some prospects or juorneymen their own size in their twilight, win lose or draw at least it's honest. Don't bait them with paydays to use them as record padding for guys way too big for them to even consider fighting. It's disrespectful.

 

Nun? It's just something that sprang into my head. That's the impetus behind nearly every thread posted here. It's one big diahrretic flow of stream of consciousness.

If you dig back to the Quartey-Wright threads, I believe I posted similar things. It's not a huge deal, and I'm not losing sleep over it, but like that situation, it doesn't sit well. I like Ike, as I like Steve, and neither guy needed another pointless certain loss at this stage of their careers.

This thought happened to pop into my head when I saw the pic on Stevie's myspace. I wasn't thinking about anything other than "Well that sucks, that when people look at this guy's boxrec profile generations from now, they'll note that at the end of his career he hit a skid going 1-3...which doesn't accurately reflect his skill as a fighter, and furthermore two of those losses were against light middleweights and one was a robbery. Just seems a damn shame and a waste." That's all. Don't get pissy because you've had a hard time looking past the fact that I was even slightly critical of DLH to see what my actual point has been all along. :good

 

People are seeing the name "DLH" and letting their imagination fill in the rest.

 

There's a difference between being an underdog and being ridiculously outsized. DLH is not a small LMW, and Forbes is not a big 140 lber. In both his case and Ike's, I feel they have little left to prove in their careers by challenging Goliaths (obviously both feel differently...or just have a weakness for stacks of Benjamins). I don't want them to necessarily feast on "gimme" fights until they retire - but at the same time I wouldn't bash them for it. Ideally, I'd like to see them fight the young lions of their own respective weight classes - and if they lose, so be it. Forbes losing to a Demetrius Hopkins (which he didn't legitimately, damn it) or a Francisco Bojado is fine...losing to DLH is a waste. Quartey losing to a Vernon Forrest (which he didn't legitimately, damn it) or a Joachim Alcine is fine...losing to Winky is a waste.

 

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Does nobody else feel bad for the guy getting picked on so soon after a robbery loss? That's actually the same reason I was so against the Quartey-Wright fight - Ike was literally JUST coming off the very controversial loss to Forrest.

The hell with the money in both cases - talk about kicking guys square in the pride while they're down! (you could say the also-questionable Bojado decision made it even as far as Forbes and GBP are concerned, but when you sandwich that victory between back-to-back L's against Brewer and Hopkins, and then a pointless one against DLH, that makes for a rather shitty skid, no?)