Your Boxing Pet Peeves

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  1. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Revisionist history in boxing.
     
  2. Boom_Boom

    Boom_Boom R.I.P Boxing 6/9/12 Full Member

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    People bringing up Teddy Atlas ' s predictions. Who cares who he picked.
     
  3. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    -All of the belts
    All these Regular, Super, Diamond, Silver, International. These belts are just for promotional and sanctioning fee purposes.

    -Boxers who don't take the sport seriously
    Adrien Broner...

    -Entitled boxers who haven't accomplished anything
    Amir Khan

    -Fighters that quit

    -Jim Lampley's commentating
    Like the OP said, his narrating and calling the wrong things out

    -Old, slow-speaking commentators
    Zzzzzz....

    -Invasive refs or refs that just stand there

    -Hometown decisions
    Big fan of Danny Garcia, but he should've lost that fight.

    -Fans who cry "duck" or "scared" for EVERYTHING
    Apparently EVERYTHING Mayweather does is tied to Pacquiao.

    -Fans who overhype fighters who've done squat
    Everyone swears up and down Keith Thurman can beat Floyd, or that Golovkin can beat Ward.

    - Biased broadcast commentators
    Pacquiao vs Bradley? Anyone?
     
  4. JacK Rauber

    JacK Rauber Unbourboned by what has been Full Member

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    Biased referees, who favor the known fighter, like calling Bhop "Bernard" when giving him a warning, while calling the lesser known fighter by his last name or no name at all

    Adulation from some boxing fans over boxers who do almost nothing but dance around the ring, throwing an occasional punch, like Willie Pep, who supposedly didn't throw a single punch in a round but still won it, yeah, right, not in my book, clearly I go for the guy who is forcing the action

    Commentators who have an agenda and are clearly favoring one fighter over another, like when a favored fighter throws and lands a punch they ooh and ahh, but when the other fighter throws and lands a punch they tell you how much time is left in the round, hate that crap
     
  5. guru059

    guru059 TV Packager Full Member

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    late start times
    PPV
    a million belts
    17 weight classes
    promotional incest
    commentators on US telecasts
    lazy promoters
     
  6. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    haha!
     
  7. Capitan

    Capitan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's the Vodka influence!!!


    I hate when boxers keep touching gloves before each round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  8. cslb

    cslb Puerto Rican Uppercut Full Member

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    Bad refs, bad judges, promoters who don't care about the fans, boxers who don't care about the fans and too many sanctioning bodies. If there was only one belt per weight class a lot of this bs that we are exposed to would be eliminated.
     
  9. kiwi_boxer

    kiwi_boxer nighty night, ellerbe ☠ ☠ ☠ banned Full Member

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    *******'s, *****'s.
     
  10. 9522

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    A pet hate of mine is fighters slipping over on such a regular basis. Whatever happened to the resin tray?
     
  11. cslb

    cslb Puerto Rican Uppercut Full Member

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    That's rosin tray and nowadays advertisements are provided all over the canvas and when sweat or water drips on the advertisements, they get slick.
     
  12. Brickhaus

    Brickhaus Packs the house Full Member

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    Guys who grunt every time they throw a punch, like Lamont Peterson or Antwone Smith
     
  13. 9522

    9522 Active Member Full Member

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    I realise the decals on the canvas are slippery and they do slip on them. But do boxers still use the rosin tray? If they do I haven't noticed it. Assuming they don't, perhaps they should?
     
  14. cslb

    cslb Puerto Rican Uppercut Full Member

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    Rosin trays were used in the old days with leather-soled shoes. I think the new shoes have rubber soles but I am not sure.
     
  15. FloatingGhost

    FloatingGhost Some guy Full Member

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    The words "*******" and "*****" and every other childish variant of the 2. Along with the morons who fling them about.

    Fans of promoters and managers. (Wtf?)

    Promoters and managers.

    10 point must system.

    Reluctance of judges to score even rounds even.

    Floyd mayweather.

    Obsessed fans of kieth thurman. (Not kieth himthelf.)

    Fighters and promoters refusing to work with one another.

    Refs that refuse to let guys fight on the inside.

    Rigondeaux. (Don't ask why. Guy just rubs me the wrong way. I think it's his smug ass face.)

    Andre ward. (Son of god? How arrogant can the guy be?)

    Danny garcia, his father and fans.

    The wrong guy getting the win...over n over n over.

    No instant replay.

    Sanctioning bodies.

    Excuses.

    There's tons more. This sport drives me fukkin insane. Wish to god I could get into football or hockey or somethin. Guess the short list of things I love about it outweigh the long list of things I hate. I guess the general lack of organization is what I hate most.