Yea, i can see you really have an interest in this right here. Do you have a fave all-time fighter Chinx? (apart from the ovious!!!)
Yea, some phases come and go, but im like you there, boxing has stuck, always will, i can safely say that now! You seem far too good a boxing fan to have HIM in your avatar!!!! Just kidding there, (joke) haha
I am a big Lee fan, always have been. Watched him through the amateurs to now so il always be loyal. you seem like a genuine fan too man. Its funny because they are a few and far between on this boxing forum.
The guys I like are the ones that obviously transcend something, some kind of handicap or flaw, like the obvious one who fought with a half a right arm. But anybody who has something to overcome, even someone like Tyson who had a size and reach deficit in the HW class. But I have to admit that my all time favorite fighter, and this may be obvious by now too, was Muhummad Ali, who despite his considerable gifts always looked a little too soft to be in there with all those heavies with supersized strength.
My bad! Thought it was Oscar in your avatar (because of your name and he looks like young Oscar so much in that shot!!)!! Haha, embarrassed myslf there! No disrespect to Lee was meant! Thanks for the secnd line you wrote, i take that kind of thing as a big compliment, and yea, there's not as many as we'd like, but there's plenty of real-good fans here on the classic forum.
So in hindsight, Harry Greb fighting blind in one eye in the latter part of his career must have you in awe i guess? Has me, what a warrior, that kind of thing touches on an aspect of my original post here aswell.
This is actually one of my first times in the classic forum. I couldnt believe it the threads are great! This is the place to be!
Yeah, anything that forces a fighter to either tap into that other thing, call it heart or desire or passion or even hate, or just fail. I watched a fight last night, sorry not sure of the name, Cottey? But this guy broke his finger, I think it was in the 5th. Only a finger, but on his jabbing hand, and so he was having a lot of trouble from then on just getting inside, where he had to be to cut off the reach of his guy who towered over him. There were alot of unintentional head-butts, maybe some intentional ones too, understandable given the situation. He had to take alot of shots going in, and ended up losing the decision, but I was impressed anyway.
Stay here! This is it right here! Seriously though, this is where you get real debate rather than the arguing that takes place in the general. You're welcome here Goldenboy!!
Might have been Joshua Clottey-Antonio Margarito, i never saw that one, but it sounds like what i heard. I like Margarito because i believe he is the most vicious fighter in the world right now, that sounds like a bad reason to like a guy, but the man is Mexican and is a vicious man in between them ropes, he must have a (typical of Mexico) story to tell. I always say there's a difference between an aggressive fighter and a vicious one. Im so in awe of Duran in that respect EDIT= This is a reply to u Chinx!!
Yeah, that was it T. I remember the first few times I saw Duran in there. I'd never seen that kind of intensity in a fighter's eyes.
He was, and are we onto something here? Is that the kind of thing you look for in a fighter? There is that intangible, that fierce desire that I think sets the great ones apart. Who else have you seen that quality in?