Written reports + Lack of Footage = Overrated?

Did Tarver score a KD/KO or even hurt/stagger Jones with any particular single punch in the 1st fight? I don't remember any.

2nd bout - I explained this many times - Jones was throwing a short left hook at opponent who was near off-balance, at the same time protecting his chin from a left counter with his right glove. What did he have to do, according to textbook?

Johnson bout - an arc punch that caught him above the ear; fighters usually land a lot of punches to the side of the head without effect. His right glove was covering his chin, ready to block or parry or deflect a left punch (which he actually blocked, there was a left hand punch aimed at his chin a moment before the right hand punch followed), as well as ready to parry a straight right. A punch that landed instead, a younger Jones would have taken a step forward or to the right in that situation, for better safety, but his legs were gone, so he relied on head and upper body movement instead, he was getting away from a punch, his head had travelled almost a foot before that right hand caught him up.

 

Becoming invested too much(and thus losing perspective, becoming overly biased etc) in a fighter you've taken a lot of time researching through the written word, and of who there is little to no footage of is definitely an issue in the boxing community.

Still, becoming overly invested and developing bias of fighters of who there is plenty to watch is an issue as well.

It is what it is.You've just got to try and remain as objective as possible.

 

**** that. This is boxing not politics; these events are not, in absolute terms, important to our lives. Be biased.

 

I try to be, but i just can't imagine Shane Mosley post vernon forrest as a good fighter no matter how much i like his cheery manner.

 

Sometimes I close my eyes and pretend he's still a lightweight.

 

Tarver was beating Jones' high-held arms, rarely being able to land any clean punches. That's the point. This is like saying Foreman was hitting Ali a lot. If he actually landed all or most of his punches he threw, Ali would have been out in one of the early rounds.

2nd fight. Clocked when he was doing something wrong technically? The only thing I could think of was to step toward Tarver with that punch, but the position Tarver was in made it difficult and rather useless to step inside.

With Johnson, again, count the number of punches Johnson landed clean. It's in single digits in most if not all rounds, including the first where Johnson threw about a hundred punches in total (punches to the back don't count, because they are against the rules).