Lies Turbo.. NOBODY is a bigger fan of Whitaker than me.. You're only a big whitaker fan cause he's the best win on your boy's resume
Its crazy how much more of the subtle things you notice live with good seats. Things you can't ever see on tv
I love ringside. It's not a treat I can just up and offer myself every single week, but I do believe that any true boxing fan owes themselves to see a fight ringside atleast once. It changes everything.
Let me know when you have one of these like your boy Turbo :smoke http://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-Ringsi...221155157767?pt=US_Boxing&hash=item337ddfe707
The thuds of the punches and the glassy eyes of a badly hurt oponent are mainly what I notice more live than when I'm at home.
Saw Daniel Santos vs Michael Lerma live. Santos was basically having an easy sparring session dominating Lerma every round. In the 4th or 5th Lerma landed one and jumped on Santos and pounded the **** out of him and totally raped him on the ropes. It appeared Santos might go out. Santos recouped himself and continued the domination in the next round to the end with a (rightfully so) clear decision. I happened to see the fight on TV some months later and when the fatefull moment of Lerma's time to shine came....It didn't look like ****. it didn't look like a turnaround in the fight at all. Weird, when it was live, it seemed like a Rocky Balboa moment.
Yeah, the sound of the punches was something. When I saw john Mugabi vs Frank Fletcher. Their punches landing sounded like the bass drums banging in a marching band.
Rios-Alvarado was like that. It was almost sickening. Like an asskicking soundtrack. GREAT fight, though. Second most entertaining I've witnessed.
Jeff lacy vs Robin Reid. Lacy slammed Reid with a punch and his eyes rolled up in his head. the first time I can remember ever seeing that, made me a bit queezy,the audience went nuts.
114-113 DLH. Same as I ultimately did at home. The 12th looked worse live. People were screaming at the referee to stop the fight. It looked like Oscar was pulling a Pryor-Arguello on Ike. I was thinking, "Why won't this guy fall down?" The left hooks that sat Ike in the 6th and 12th sounded like gunshots. Jolting to even the spectator. Oscar turned his toe and hip into the last one so hard the ring creaked. Ike's jab also sounded like a cannon. Oscar had a ton of trouble with it; He'd flinch backwards an inch, and his eyes would blink, though he'd look like he was trying to stop repeating this reaction. You can't even tell on TV.
Yeah, I see the shots there guys were taking and think of the very small portion of the population who would still remain standing. I'm thinking perhaps one is 100,000, maybe? Mugabi had 100% KO's at the time, Fletcher perhaspa .500 KO rate. Regardless of the stats, both of them were hard hitting mothe****ers. either one hits you, you are ****ed. I couldn't distinguish the diffference in the power by the sound.
Stuff like that is what makes being there live with a good seat so much better than being at home. You can really see and hear the agony the fighters are in much clearer and it seems less like a video game type thing and makes it clearly as real as it is. I can see highly polished amateur and even professionals having some of the same reactions that I have when being stung with a good shot or when anticipating the move of an oponent.