Too much antagonism in British domestic fights

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by travolt, Mar 28, 2016.


  1. travolt

    travolt Trolling the trolls Full Member

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    Fort some reason, it seems British fighters always get too personal when facing each other. That makes for do-or die kind of contests, where the protagonists see it as a fight to the death instead of a sporting contest.

    When Blackwell faced a taller and rangier fighter in Eubank, he should have come with the strategy to try coming inside. But since that would have risked him getting caught and stopped, and his pride dictated not to get knocked out at any costs, because he acted as if Eubank was his worst ennemy, he chose the wrong strategy and stayed at a distance where he got picked up repeatedly, absorbing far more punishment than if he had risked trying coming inside but got stopped doing so.

    The wrong strategy was adopted for the wrong reasons. This isn't a sporting contest anymore. It's about who kills the other guy.

    How did we come to this ?
     
  2. Ukansodoff

    Ukansodoff Deontay plz stop ducking Joshua. Thank you. Full Member

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    Its just what the British do. We like Boxing, we really love fighting. Turn something so it seems personal then it just feels like it means more.
     
  3. Odins beard

    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    Also Eubank jnr seems to easily get under people's skin. There is an arrogance about him which must rub fellow fighters up, as in interviews he comes across level headed.
     
  4. Proud Warrior

    Proud Warrior Well-Known Member banned

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    In America we are saturated with sob story's of "hard life fighting in the hood" where in reality they don't fight they shoot each other like cowards. In the uk a hard life literally means fighting and protecting yourself with your fists. Apart from the new wave of nob heads stabbing each other in the major cities fighting is definitely a cultural thing here, especially when you throw 10 pints into the mix.
     
  5. Proud Warrior

    Proud Warrior Well-Known Member banned

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    By the way, fighting with 10 pints in you is seriously what I recommend, the beer numbs the pain and you see your target in double vision thus making your target area much bigger.
     
  6. Limerickbox

    Limerickbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't think it mattered what strategy Blackwell came in with, he was simply in with a guy who was superior to him in essentially every way
     
  7. turnip

    turnip Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Blackwells corner should have pulled him out