isnt the point of boxing

What kind of potato chips do you like?

 

I would rather watch Mexican Warriors, than slick african american *****.

 

Agreed wholeheartedly. There is a major under appreciation for the skill, science, and art of boxing these days. I think that is largely thanks to MMA's masterful marketing campaign convincing America particularly that it's a real sport instead of Cage Fighting, and that it really is Ultimate fighting, like it's some evolution of boxing and that it is better somehow, but I beg to differ greatly.

Beautifully put.

And that's never changed to some degree either. It's just as incredible to watch a man thwart a devastating offense as it is to see someone effectively execute a devastating offense.

That's one of the first things my dad taught me about boxing.

Agreed. If you've never boxed and taken a good, clean, measured, powerful shot or many in most boxers cases, you can't possibly fathom what it's like. You don't know what it's like to be under attack from someone who knows how to do it, who does nothing but train to do just that to you. It's a whole different world than sitting on your couch say "Man that guy is scared to take punches, what a *****". If you were the one in the ring you would have already been laid out from taking the punches if you hadn't run out of gas long before that and fell on your face from exhaustion.

No, that's MMA.

Ah ha, another winner. Styles indeed do make fights and it's when certain styles clash that you're going to get a big knock-down-drag-out fight no matter what. Sometimes it's just destined to be that way depending on the styles of any two given fighters put against each other.

I remember one of the first things my dad taught me about boxing, he said point blank "Look, if you really don't like getting hit than you don't need to box. You've got to know, you ARE going to get hit, you are going to take hard punches. No one boxes and doesn't get hit." and he made it very clear to me and made sure I understood that before I got going. He had to make sure I wasn't going in there with any false impressions or delusions of not being hurt at any point. Punches hurt, that's a fact of the sport. But, you learn how to take punches better, you build up a bit of a tolerance to some of it, and most of all you use you're mental, emotional, and physical tools to overcome the pain and the fighter in front of you.

 

i don't mind a defensive boxer, but it's one thing to make your opponent miss and then counter him, and it's another thing to jump in and out, all the time punching then running. another thing i hate is excessive holding/clinching. that annoys the hell out of me especially when a ref let's it go on for too long. i don't care how good a boxer is at this, i personally don't like these styles. this is a general comment and i am NOT referring to any particular boxer.