Pantera Vocalist, Phil Anselmo's boxing articles

boxingwizard · Aug 14, 2008

It was a good read, I had no idea he was this much into the sport. I did see him in a boxing gym on an episode of Headbanger's Ball though, where he talked about going there and training somewhat.

Tencount85 · Aug 14, 2008

Found these on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[yt]7cTvXyEzJ9A[/yt]

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=189797

Serenata · Aug 14, 2008

Good article on the HW situation ,even or perhaps because suggar white doesn´t like it

Govanmauler · Aug 15, 2008

ha ha ha no way I was a huge Pantera fan back in the day ( first saw them in Glasgow supporting Megadeth ! )

Knew Phil was a fan but didnt realise he wrote such good articles , thanks for sharing !

Kerosene · Aug 15, 2008

I think Phil Anselmo and Henry Rollins used to spar.

jupzrooni · Aug 15, 2008

Tencount85 said:

Most people that know the heavy metal band Pantera know the vocalist, Phil Anselmo, is a pretty big boxing fan. He writes articles on the state of boxing today and here is a recent one I found interesting

On Floyd's Retirement -

"Scoop Malinowski and Philip H. Anselmo deliberate and discuss on the controversial issue of Floyd Mayweather’s baloney retirement from the sport of boxing, in this debut feature we call “Tellin’ It Like It Is”, in honor of the late, great Howard Cosell, “The Mouth That Roared”…
Scoop: It’s obvious to just about everyone in boxing that Mayweather retired so as to duck the Cotto-Margarito winner which public pressure would have demanded he meet the winner since his schedule is wide open now that Oscar II fizzled out. Floyd’s legacy is that of a great talent and multiple titleholder who ducked and dodged too many tough challenges. Compared to all the great honorable champions who fearlessly and proudly faced the best without excuse or alibi, Floyd shrivels in comparison. Compared to that standard, Floyd is a counterfeit posing as a great champion. Floyd did not uphold the integrity of the sport of boxing - that the best are obligated to fight the best - and therefore it’s a good thing he has gone into hiding to avoid Cotto or Margarito. Floyd is welcome back if he wants to do the right thing and fight the best to prove he is P4P, but if he wants to comeback and handpick again, it will further shame his legacy and embarrass the reputation of the sport of pro boxing of being the sport where the best compete against the best.

Phil Anselmo: Floyd Mayweather: one of boxing’s PFP greats? What a laugh. If you examine his record, every fight was COMPLETELY hand-picked from the start of his forgettable career. Beating a ripe for the taking Genaro Hernandez, who had already hinted at retirement BEFORE they fought, stopping a distracted man facing jail time in Diego Corrales, LOSING to Jose Luis Castillo in their first fight, but being given a gift decision a la James Toney-Dave Tiberi, winning the rematch with Castillo by “boxing” safety first, beating a chin dented, underachiever in Zab Judah after LOSING the the first four rounds, stopping a SHOT Arturo Gatti, beating an Oscar De La Hoya who was 10 YEARS PAST HIS PRIME by split decision, and his grand finale being a KO over Rickey Hatton, the JR. WELTER CHAMP. Isn’t the welterweight champ supposed to beat the junior welterweight champ? The money dictated Floyd’s choices, NEVER his heart.

Only true “world” champions clean out their respectful divisions. Not only did Floyd duck EVERYONE rated in the top 10, he gave no respect to the fans nor the fighters by protecting his undefeated record by milking the boxing system, systematically.Cotto, Margarito, & Williams don’t need Floyd anymore, not that Floyd would ever fightany of them, but between the those three fighters, it’ll be a pleasure to see them erase the name Floyd Mayweather Jr. from our memory banks forever. He’s a *****, best put on a shelf to gather dust. Let him lay arm & arm with his lame accomplishments in bed at night-alone, (if he can really sleep, knowing in his own mind what a true hoax his career has been) while the rest of the world passes him by, just like The Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota should.

Scoop: I agree, I would not vote for him to be inducted to the Hall of Fame. Too many lies, too many avoided fights the paying customers wanted to see, disqualify him from Canastota in my personal opinion. Now, by all evidence, Floyd in a way is a beaten man. He has been defeated by the Cotto mystique. Psyched out, intimidated by the confidence, the passion, the Cotto hunger and drive to be the BEST. You stand those two together at a press conference and every one in the room including Stevie Wonder would know who the real champion is and who the manufactured, immature, empty talking phony fraud is. This is why Phloyd has never even tried to negotiatie with Cotto to fight this past April. He never even tried to ask for 90-10 cut of the total purse. And Floyd never tried to demand 90% of the PPV pie considering what a big draw he claims he is.

Phil you have studied the Sweet Science and all the great fighters over the last 25 years. Do you think it’s possible Phloyd may man up and save his name and rep? Do you think the inner shame he is feeling now as a coward who has fleed pro boxing to duck and dodge Cotto or Margarito can evolve and mature into pride and honor? I believe Phloyd is a very sensitive and somewhat insecure individual underneath all the cocksure bravado. And eventually his reputation as a handpicking counterfeit will eat him alive. and he will eventually say, All the $ in the world ain’t worth living in shame as a chicken who ducked and dodged Cotto/Margarito. “I need the love Hatton gets. I need to be embraced like Cotto is by Puerto Rico, like Pacman is by Filipinos.” I gotta get back in there and do what I do best, I gotta be Floyd, and win or lose or get savagely knocked out, my destiny is to face my ultimate challenge Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito.

Phil do you believe the bully punk in Floyd is capable of making this honorable realization and manning up to face his bogeyman? Or will Phloyd ride this out and wait until the coast is clear, and then comeback in 09 and, say, pay a bonus to Paul Williams through Al Haymon to move up to 154 and then handpick the Hatton-Pacquiao winner or some other phony exhibition?

Philip H. Anselmo: Being young, rich, & retired won’t bode well at all with fake Floyd. Once he realizes WCW wrestling, golf, flashing wads of cash around the same old hangers-on & token friends, or driving a different brand new car to the bank in Grand Rapids MI everyday gets old FAST, he’ll NEED to feel the excitement that only fighting for world championships could possibly bring. A guy like himself needs the spotlight MORE than a plant needs sunlight. He craves it.
He’ll comeback, for sure. Will he fight Cotto, Margarito, or Williams? That depends on HIS psychology. And the state of the game.

We know his “business/$first” approach to the game. I know for a fact that there’s NO WAY
he relishes fighting the aforementioned three fighters in what’s sure to be three completely different, fiercely contested chapters in his stellar career. By telling the public that Cotto isn’t a big enough name at this point in the game is stupid. Besides, Floyd is “a major pay-per-view attraction on his own, regardless of who he fights.” More BS. It takes two to tangle, and to make it attractive for the public to demand it should be against the best guy, a la Cotto, etc.
Or, maybe Floyd is slyly enjoying duping boxing and its fans in general. He always has, so why not now? Or more importantly why? He had to laugh inside a little (or cry) when he saw the shape De La Hoya had gotten himself into when he fought Steve Forbes, only to drop the guillotine blade on the fight with Oscar by “retiring.”

When Margarito & Cotto clash, how much will it take out of both fighters? Ever think of that? I bet Floyd has. To come back and beat the husk of either fighter would be right up Floyd’s alley. If and when Paul Williams continues to improve, Floyd will have absolutely NO ****ing problem AVOIDING him. And if Williams gets to the husks of Cotto or Margarito before Floyd you can forget Floyd fighting him-EVER!!! But…YES! He’ll still comeback. Not fighting Williams, but against a 55-year-old De La Hoya, or even (especially) Ricky Hatton, even if he’s is coming off of a three-fight losing streak at junior welter, Floyd would DEFINITELY take that fight, and if he won, he’d act like he’d beaten insurmountable odds stacked against him, and once again, call himself the greatest fighter that ever lived.

Remember two things Floyd, the fact that you’re considered the #1 PFP fighter today rings hollow. Especially when a mere decade and a half earlier, Roy Jones Jr. was considered the #1 PFP fighter in the world, because he DESERVED IT. Roy was faster than you, punched harder, was 100 times more exciting & took calculated RISKS! All you’ve done is calculate! When have you REALLY risked ANYTHING? In the Carlos Baldomir fight? Don’t make me and those others who’ve seen straight through your facade simultaneously puke.

And the second thing, deep down inside, you, your dad & your uncle Roger talk so much about
being “the best” (you ***holes are so insecure of yourselves), they must know what I’ve suspected for a long time: you Floyd, have “The Mayweather chin” that I’ve been waiting to see exposed for a long time. But you’ve been matched so carefully, there’s not been much of a chance of that happening. Now you’re taking the easiest way out. But one day, and it will come, when you make your comeback, a punch will hit you square on the chin, and you’ll collapse like your uncle Roger did against Rafael Pineda, with his head resting across the bottom rope, eyes crossed, and his ****-talking lips flapping in the breeze, dreaming the non-dreaming of the KO’d.

I know you’ve got it in you Floyd - just step up and fight a legit guy so we can have the opportunity to see your eyes crossed, and big ‘ol flapping lips sputtering NOTHING!!! For a change as you get counted out, to the delight of we who call you fraudulent.”
Thank you for reading this installment of “Tellin’ It Like It Is.”
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always been a boxing fan, i love the mother****er...

i was able to read an interview about his thoughts on barrera-morales 1... he said mab should have won.. great musician, and fan of the sport too

Words · Aug 15, 2008

****ing hell I never thought the big dumb redneck smackhead could be so articulate! well done!

Didn't phil win the louisiana golden gloves tournament at light-heavyweight in his youth?

K0NPHL1C7 · Aug 15, 2008

"LOSING to Jose Luis Castillo in their first fight, but being given a gift decision...winning the rematch with Castillo by boxing safety first, beating a chin dented, underachiever in Zab Judah after LOSING the the first four rounds"

I'm sorry but that irrational statement discredits everything else he has to say. It's pretty clear this is nothing more than an opinionated editorial. To imply that Mayweather was "gifted" a W in his fist bout with Castillo is bad enough, but then to follow it up by critiquing the rematch is just asinine.

And somehow insinuating that Mayweathers giving 3 rounds to Judah and then dominating the rest of the fight shows a flaw in Floyd, is he serious? The guy has only had ONE close fight in his entire career.

Just another hater. Thanks for the music though.

Little Pea · Aug 15, 2008

K0NPHL1C7 Of course it is a "opinionated editorial". But i do agree with most of his toughts. Not sure for Roy Jones...i think they are suffering some nostalgia sickness. I mean, they are saying exactly how they (and i) would like it to happen. JR has a chance but not that much. As for PAntera, i saw them in 1991 (i think) in MOntreal's Spectrum. My first "adult only" show. That was really good.

K0NPHL1C7 · Aug 15, 2008

Titomahawk said:

K0NPHL1C7 Of course it is a "opinionated editorial". But i do agree with most of his toughts. Not sure for Roy Jones...i think they are suffering some nostalgia sickness. I mean, they are saying exactly how they (and i) would like it to happen. JR has a chance but not that much. As for PAntera, i saw them in 1991 (i think) in MOntreal's Spectrum. My first "adult only" show. That was really good.
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I saw them in 98?ish in Lewiston, (Maine) - At the very sight of Ali's famous "Phantom Punch". I met Ali at the same venue a few years earlier. They were having a 25-year commemorationof that famous fight. I also met Shannon Briggs that night when he was still a cruiser.

natep · Aug 15, 2008

:bbb

Tencount85 said:

Found these on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[yt]7cTvXyEzJ9A[/yt]

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=189797
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I like his discharge shirt.

DanePugilist · Aug 15, 2008

Anselmo speaks the truth...

samuraijack · Aug 15, 2008

Anselmo for President!

Jack Presscot · Aug 15, 2008

Maybe Panterna can open for AC-DC when they Tour next year. But Phil Alsemlo should stick to being a deity for potheads, and dudes that work at Circle K that look like Jay and Silent Bob. He cannot carry the sweaty jockstrap of Ronnie James Dio and you can quote me on that.

boxingwizard · Aug 15, 2008

^I'd prefer a Pantera reunion
I wonder what Phil would be like as a ring announcer?

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