What rigo did to cordoba becomes a borefest. the crowd is booing and its bad for the sport. a boxer can potshot his opponent to win a UD but what does it bring to the crowd? Potshotting i think should be regulated like, a boxer cannot do it for two consecutive rounds and if so, be deducted 1 point. thoughts anyone?
Lets ban all punching. Boxing is way behind the times on this one. In most other sports if one competitor punches another in the face they will be thrown out of the competition and probably suspended in the future, but in boxing competitors regularly punch each other repeatedly in the face with no action taken at all.
Yup. Sometimes fighers come in with a plan to outdo their opponents. It is BS and boring. No-one wants to see that garbage.
IF you are doing that , then you are not potshotting... what pack did in the 12th and some other rds was potshotting. what floyd does is pot shotting. what GR did was running
Running, perhaps. Potshotting, no. Ring wars are special because of the skill and heart it takes to make a notable fight. You can't make every fight a brawl. Once you start regulating when a boxer is boxing too cautiously simply because of taste, you make the sport even more subjective and limit the stylistic application that many talented fighters favor. You don't have to like it, but if it works, it works. The fans will show whether or not they support a runner, and more often than not, a fighter's performance will affect their marketing eventually.
I don't see the problem with it, outside of it sucks to watch. I think watching the San Antonio Spurs ****ing sucks, I think watching a "running team" that is content to punt and play defense in American football sucks, a five hit shut out in baseball that ends 1-0 sucks to the casual fan. I don't think you can regulate style, if Cordova was that concerned with what Rigondoeaux was doing, he could have rushed him and made the fight ugly, smothered him, and tried to bully him. While I don't love that ****, it's not something that can be regulated at all.
