The actual skill level of Jim Braddock

Oh, got it.

 

I have to bump this comment if only for the joy of Reznick likening the relevance of his 'work' in his field to Spielberg or Apple in theirs.

I recall one of his videos showing a punch thrown by Marciano. He described it as an 'arm uppercut' - answers on a postcard, please. Of all of the punches, the uppercut is the least likely to have no torque from the hip, shoulder, leg ... aaarrgghh, what am I doing? I'm arguing that there is no such punch as an arm uppercut. Of course there f****** isn't.

Anyway, long story short, he went on to describe the punch's 'perfect trajectory' . 'Perfect' and/or 'trajectory' were poor choices of words there for the simple reason that the punch missed. As befits an arm uppercut. Dig it out @cross_trainer . You'll enjoy the thread.

Reznick had possibly the highest opinion of himself that I have ever seen on this forum. He felt that having a contrary view meant that he 'seed something' that we couldn't. He never got it that when you're the one in ten with a certain opinion, it's nine times more likely that you're wrong than the people you're arguing with. In short, an insufferable bore who forgot more about pomposity than the forum favourite Perry ever knew.

 

I remember Perry! Unusual guy. I think someone was convinced that he was Donald Trump in disguise.

PS: Which thread are you referring to? Google is truly terrible when it comes to searching this forum, for some reason.

 

Did you not hear about when he used to run on the treadmill and it broke under the strain of his running?

Not so much Donald Trump as Forrest Gump.

 

That would have been cool. Perry was good people.

 

hmmm...
Marciano > Tyson. You know what you get from Marciano.

Jim Braddock is a known commodity.. one of long histories finest. He's at least equal to the Chisora, Parker types, let's say, from today. He'd put some leather on them. You have the championship heart.. or you don't.

 

Braddock was like a box of chocolates.

Max didn’t know what he was gonna get. And he got got.

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Truer words have never been spoken. Jacko is the biggest clown here. I'd put him on ignore, but he's good for comedy.

 

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. The treadmill story is exactly the type of lie Trump spouts on a daily basis.

 

I've just thrown an arm uppercut, I.e. an uppercut whilst keeping everything body side of my shoulder virtually static, whilst looking at myself in the mirror, so if there wasn't such a punch before, there is now.

Admittedly, I've never seen a boxer throw an arm uppercut and I'm certainly glad no one was around to see mine ;-)

 

To be fair Rez came back after, from memory, a long ban (one of multiple i believe) a very very different bloke. He'd matured immensely and McGrain, who he had given no small amount of crap, actually cited him as someone that showed things could be turned around after a break or words to that effect.

This is coming from someone that tore into him so hard a couple of times i may have been banned if he himself hadn't been behaving so badly at the time.

Fond memories all around actually.........we always said at work (i worked in workshops that had staff numbers over 500 across various shops and trades in one huge compound) you could write a book about this place and people simply wouldn't believe it as some of the people and happenings simply had to be seen to be believed. This place almost reminds me of that on a smaller scale, online of course.

 

You found the Perry thread once, didn't you, mate? Do your magic. That treadmill story from the hairy wrist should be bumped at least once a year!!

Is that right about Rez? Fair play to him.

 

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