Your Unshakeable Boxing Opinions

Ken Norton beat Muhammed Al Twice.

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Wlad threw his fight with Fury.

(So he could then become a three-time champion in the next fight, and make a fortune off the lucrative trilogy.) - Then Fury ****ed everybody by disappearing from the sport. Kind of brilliant, actually.

 

I’m not unshakeable on this — as I’m not 100 percent certain — but I believe peak Eusebio Pedroza beats Salvador Sanchez over 15 rounds.

Sal is one of my three or four favorite fighters of all time, but I think Pedroza was just a matchup nightmare for almost anyone save perhaps a dynamite puncher like Sandy Saddler. He keeps Sanchez off rhythm, makes the fight pug-ugly and outhustles him for a close verdict.

 

Much as I dislike Pedroza and like Sanchez I tend to agree, unless Pedroza gets dq'd. Had this fight ever been made (which is extremely doubtful while they were both champs) the bad blood and political wrangling before the fight would have been intense. I think Sanchez' team was very aware of Pedroza's proclivity for bending the rules and would not have been very quiet about it.

If Pedroza were a big puncer, yikes.

 

Weightclasses matter for Heavyweights too.

 

1 Foreman vastly overrated boxer of all time.
2 Ali greatest ever for reasons that transcend boxing.
3 Take every h weight on their best night and nobody in history beats Lennox.
4 Ty Biggs was (in my experience) living proof that a weak mentality can undo immense natural talent.
5 Evander Holyfield was ( in my experience) living proof that strong mentality can get the last once out of what talent you have.
6 The judges scores should be displayed to all watching after each round.
7 Liston took a dive in fight 2 with Ali.

 

Agree. For example I just watched the first round of Michael Nunn vs James Toney the two best MW's at the time and then I watched the first round of Canelo-GGG, the gap in speed, technique and attitude was huge.

 

I've said this before- and surprisingly no one ever gets mad at me and tells me to go play in traffic: If Jesse James Hughes had not met his demise in the Mobile swamps and had gotten that title shot against Felix Trinidad in 1994, he would've survived an early onslaught and wore Trinidad down like he had been doing to everyone else and pulled off a shocking TKO to win the belt.

 

1) The better man won in Chavez vs Taylor. Steele absolutely made the right decision, and Taylor apologists are idealists who decry the viccisitudes of life.

2) Legacies are disproportionately affected by injuries (Hagler vs Hearns, Cerdan vs Lamotta, Delahoya vs Chavez).

3) Cotto was a major benefactor of point #2 ( Foreman, Margarito 2, Martinez).

4) Despite wanting Hagler to win, I score it for Leonard every time.

5) Las Vegas Boxing Commision is thoroughly corrupt.

6) Liston and Walcott took dives in their HW championship rematches.

7) I would rather be friends with Frazier than Ali.

8) Castillo beat Mayweather.

9) Over 15 rounds, Marciano is the favorite over every boxer under 190lb.

10) Boxing judges should be graded and ranked every year for competency.

 

In mythical H2H's James Toney as a CW beats everyone except Holyfield and even then Lights Out has a very good chance.

 

GREAT!

 

That is insane.

 

I'm settling into believing that the vast majority of fans cannot score a fight correctly. Favoritism, "looking tired," ineffective aggression, Compubox, rabid commentating on TV, and a whole bunch ofnother factors turn scoring into a crap shoot for a lot of people.

Fights like Mayweather-Maidana I weren't actually that close if scored correctly.

 

RJJ?

 

Boxing is not about hit and not be hit. It is about winning. If you can win and not get hit, great. But if you have to tuck your chin and go to war, you do what you need to do.

The best can do a lot of one and a little of both.