I remember when boxing was all about skill..

i fear this is going to become a PBF hate thread somehow

 

And thats what makes this sport so great! The contrast of styles and mentalities, strategies and attributes. Its great when you have two style that oppose eachother or that compliment eachother.-

I love watching boxers fight, skilled guys like SRR or SRL, or the dazzle of RJJ, but I also love the intracacies of wathcing Duran fight, or the preasure and body punching of Chavez.

If we didnt have all this it wouldnt be boxing!

 

Dude, it is. You just posted your thread in the wrong part of the forum. There are a lot of salty, disagreeable people that cruise through the "General Boxing" forum. To get the kind of responses you're looking for try re-posting it in the "Classic Boxing" part of the forum.

In one way or another doesn't every thread? :conf

 

Been great fighters of ALL STYLES throughout the sport, styles make fights, and when the best fight the best?? Everyone wins.

 

Yea, thats part of boxing. Otherwise it would be a useless and futile attempt at nothing.

 

please don't mention cotto and hatton in the same breath, cotto has never fought like hatton and never will:smoke

 

You just hope and pray that Hatton would beat Cotto. That is your way to protect that ****** Mayweather.

 

Apparently, outlanding your opponent by twice as many punches isn't boxing either.

 

Not Mayweather !!!

 

Another SNOB thread....

 

Obviously everyone has skills, some do things better than others but regardless for them to even warrant our discussion you must realize everyone has there own way of doing things right or wrong in your eyes.

 

based on what??

 

boxing is a sport, it's not just fighting. some fighters have particular things they do. some box and move around, some come forward and brawl, some do a little of both. some people expect gatti/ward everytime boxing is on and it isn't fair to boxers who have perfected their craft.

boxing is still about skill, but the essence of the sport has been marred by pay per view, crooked promoters, pay per view, and all these crooked boxing commissions and their dozens of abc titles. casual boxing fans have come to expect bloody battles too much. unlike a lot of so-called boxing fans, i am a fan of the soprt itself, not just a fan of the brutality that it dsplays. i can watch a tactical boxing match just like i will a bloody brawl.

 

Another new idiot who thinks his view of boxing is the only view. The only science in this sport is knock the guy out or impress the three judges to get a decision. If it was a science all three judge should have teh exact score but thet doesn't happen. So please shut the **** up about this sweet science. Cause its either knock he other guy out or the judge prefer your style, thats the state of boxing.