tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620250417271982372024-03-14T01:27:52.445-07:00In This CornerTiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-7293652252987113152018-02-23T21:44:00.001-08:002018-02-23T21:44:54.621-08:00Canelo vs GGG - The Rematch <h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Canelo says that this time he would not leave it up to the judges. That is good news boxing fans, because that was what was missing in the last fight. Canelo is an inside fighter when he is at his best. Sure he can counter effectively, but that's not his specialty. It's not going to win him fights alone. He's a flat footed power fighter. He can box I'm not saying he can't, but he's no Ali to be laying on the ropes. He's got to be the Canelo that got to this mega fight. Defend and parry the punches on the inside and throw the bombs. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>GGG said he is not going to change anything. He was really the winner of the last fight, but he to says he doesn't want to leave it in the hands of the judges, and if anyone wouldn't want to it's GGG. Canelo went against the ropes and tried to out punch GGG by making him miss. That was fine for Golovkin as he went right at him all night. He was the aggressor, he pushed the action, and he was clean and effective all night long. GGG took a couple of Canelo's hardest shots during the contest, but his chin held up like granite. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The next fight should be as good as the first. I still think GGG is the better fighter, and I think he will win the fight, but he's probably not knocking out Canelo any more than he would him. They've both got solid chins. GGG out boxes him again, but can he beat the corrupt judges? </i></b></span></div>
Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-52087787494541274932017-03-13T19:50:00.001-07:002017-03-13T19:51:07.824-07:00Danny Jacobs Looks to Defy the Odds Against Gennady Golovkin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you don't know who the knockout machine Gennady Golovkin or Triple G is by now, then you've obviously been living under a rock. The guy has been storming through the middle weight division like a tornado in a trailer park. His knockout ratio is among the highest in boxing. He's humble and down to earth. You probably haven't heard of him because he's not loud or flamboyant. He's all about business and knocking the next opponent out. Most boxing fans believe GGG is going to beat Daniel Jacobs the way he has all the others...by knockout. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Danny Jacobs knows who GGG is and what he's all about. He knows if he's not on his A-game then he'll be beaten and knocked out like the others have been. I expect for this reason that he will be sharp and as ready to fight as he's ever been. I think he knew he needed to be sharp against Peter Quillin and he proved to be just that. I think that's how he will be against GGG, and making this the toughest fight Golovkin has faced to date. Jacobs knows that GGG will cutoff the ring and come right after him. He moves well enough to evade the damaging punches and create countering opportunities others haven't been able to find. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Golovkin's last fight he faced a blown up welterweight champion, Kell Brook. The added weight didn't hinder Brook and he was out boxing the middleweight champion. I suspect that Golovkin knew the shots weren't going to knock him out, but he made boxing fans wonder what would happen if a true middleweight put it on him like that? Danny Jacobs is the guy who could do that and answer that question. He's got the hand speed and the footwork to box Golovkin. GGG cuts the ring off better than any other fighter in boxing, but Jacobs has good pivots and faint moves that could keep GGG off balance. He can turn GGG and turn the aggression against him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do think that Danny Jacobs has the abilities to test GGG. He could test him in ways that he hasn't been tested up til now. David Lemieux has arguably GGG's toughest opponent so far, and where Jacobs doesn't hit with the force that Lemieux does, he's actually got better movement and ability to box and counter. Jacobs doesn't have to try to beat him at his own game. Jacobs can move and box him essentially taking the fight out of his hands. The problem is that he has to keep from getting caught by a fighter who has caught almost everyone he's faced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GGG cuts the ring off and hits his opponents with shots that have been compared with those of a cruiserweight. When he corners and traps Jacobs he's going to land those powerful shots and he's not going to take them any better than any of the others have done. I honestly believe Jacobs will test him and make a competitive fight out of it, but I don't think he's going to be the first fighter to beat Golovkin. GGG may have trouble getting a solid shot on Danny, but he'll get him. I think GGG knocks him out mid to late fight. </span>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-28244386669776100672017-03-02T16:09:00.001-08:002017-03-02T16:09:32.094-08:00Keith Thurman vs Danny Garcia: The Battle of Unbeaten Champions<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both fighters have faced some tough opposition, but neither has faced the kind of fighter that they'll see in each other. Danny Garcia faced his toughest opponents at 140 lbs. There are those who believe he should have two losses on his record as he moved up to welterweight. It's my opinion that he lost to Mauricio Herrera and Lamont Peterson. I also believe that Garcia's 16th fight against Ashley Theophane should have been a draw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite the fact that I think Danny should have 2 losses and a draw on his record, he's still an incredible fighter. He may not wow you in any one area, but Garcia is a fundamentally a great fighter and does everything at an above average level. Thurman has faced a complete fighter in Shawn Porter, but I think that Porter is more limited in terms of skill than Garcia. I'm not saying that I think Garcia wins against Porter in a head to head battle, but I think Garcia is the better textbook fighter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Danny Garcia can box or he can brawl on the inside. He can be the aggressor and he can sit back and counter another top level fighter all night long. As I'd said earlier I don't think Danny's record should be perfect, but I do recognize him as an elite level fighter. He really is one of the most well rounded fighters out there. He isn't the best at any one thing, but he's well above average at everything. He's consistent and makes the right decisions and adjustments. Never mind what I might think Danny Garcia is undefeated and has passed every test put before him so far, but none of those guys were Keith Thurman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny Garcia can box with Keith Thurman. There is no doubt Garcia has the tools to give Thurman hell from the outside. The problem for Danny is that Keith Thurman is going to get in close and that's not where Garcia wants to be. If that's where it goes, and I think it will, Danny Garcia will want it to go there. He has a better than average defense, but if there was one thing that you had to find wrong with him it'd be his defense. He's there to be hit and hit hard throughout a fight. If he lets his guard down against Thurman he will be knocked out. The best thing that Garcia could do is counter off of a good defense, but that's not what I think he'll do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Garcia camp believes the hype. They think Thurman is weak to the body and plan on testing him there. That puts him in a bad place against Thurman. To really test the body he'll have to fight Thurman on the inside, and that's all wrong for Danny. I think Thurman would knock him out in that type of fight. I think that's where the fight will end up because of both fighters willingness to go there. Garcia believes he really has a shot on the inside, and Keith would be all too willing to trade power shots on the inside with Danny. That's where I see the fight going and I don't see any way that Garcia wins that kind of fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bernard Hopkins is without question one of the best boxers in boxing's glorious history, but at age 52 he looked terrible in his final fight. He'd been on a 2 year layoff and it showed very soon after the opening bell. I'm not taking anything away from Joe Smith with my next comment, and he is a very hard puncher with range. There is no way he beats a younger Bernard Hopkins, and I'm not talking that much younger than last night. Joe was following Bernard around the ring. Hopkins took advantage of it as well as he could, but that 52 year old version of Bernard Hopkins was unable to get Smith's respect. There were times when Hopkins landed flush and clean. Anyone watching the fight could see that it drew no respect from the young 27 year old Smith. The task that Hopkins put before himself was too much to overcome at his age and a two year layoff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopkins confirmed in the post fight interview that this was his final fight. I think we can all agree that it should be. Regardless of how badly it may have ended for the legend it's easy to see that he's done. Could he come back and fight a fighter that he should beat easily? Sure he could, but why comeback to fight some journeyman that has no real value? As bad as it went for him that was the ending he chose. There's no reason to comeback and risk something worse. This is where Hopkins moves on into the second phase of his life. His contribution to the sport is undeniable. I'm sure he'll continue to impact boxing through Golden Boy. However, I think he'd make an incredible trainer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miguel Cotto Confirmed today that he would be fighting James Kirkland on February 25th. The fight will be at a catchweight of 153 lbs on HBO pay-per-view. There are a lot of boxing fans that want to see Cotto fight better opposition, but at this point in his career they want to see if he's still relevant, or is it all over for another one of boxing best fighters. Both fighters lost to Canelo Alvarez and have been inactive since then. Kirkland hasn't been relevant in quite some times, and at the age of 32 now is the time. He's lucky to be getting a shot at such a well named opponent and needs to make the most of the opportunity. Cotto is hoping to get a rematch with Canelo. This might not be the fight that most fight fans wanted to see, but it will be a very telling fight. The loser will probably not get another big fight. </span>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-35295985478604980082016-11-20T11:02:00.001-08:002016-11-20T11:02:55.834-08:00Ward Wins a Controversial Decision over Kovalev<div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andre Ward was given credit for showing true grit and turning the fight around and making it close. He did not beat Sergey Kovalev in that fight. The American fighter got the decision on American soil in a close fight. I think anyone objectively watching this fight would agree that Sergey Kovalev won this fight. Decisions like this are not good for the sport. Andre lost that fight and should give Kovalev the immediate rematch. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both fighters bring undefeated (30-0) records into the ring. Kovalev has more experience at the weight class, but Andre Ward is the more experienced fighter overall. They have both faced elite top level competition. It's my opinion however that they'll be facing the best fighter on their resumes when they fight each other. Going into the fight most fight fans say this could be fight of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could see Andre Ward dropping the first couple of rounds. He will feel Sergey Kovalev out during the first couple of rounds to see what he has. Ward will find that Kovalev can box well behind the Jab, and he'll find out that the champion hits very hard. There is a chance that Kovalev could catch Ward, but knowing Ward's skill set that wouldn't be easy or likely. However, we do all know that Ward can be caught, and Kovalev has finishing power if he does get sloppy. </span><br />
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Kell Brook was an undefeated welterweight champion. He really had nothing to prove by moving up to middleweight and fighting one of the most feared champions in boxing history. The list of guys who've got a reputation and have ducked GGG is almost as large at the list of reputable fighters that he's beaten. Kell accepted the challenge and went for the champion's belts at 160, as he moved up from 147.<br />
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Kell Brook was buckled by a power shot that clipped him, but other than that I thought he won the opening round. It was close and some might have given it to GGG. The second round was not as close and clearly went to GGG. The 3rd round would be a clear round for Brook, and by this point he'd shown that good fighters with decent footwork could be effective against the middleweight champ.<br />
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Had Kell Brook exposed GGG?<br />
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I'm not ready to say he was exposed without more evidence to support the claim. However, Kell Brook was out boxing the feared middleweight champion. Those who thought GGG would just walk through Brook's shots were wrong. Kell Brook hit him with several shots that stopped him right there in his tracks. He felt the power that Kell had told everyone GGG would respect. On the other side GGG had hit Brook with power shots that most wondered if he could take, and he did although he felt the power as early as round one.<br />
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In the 5th round Kell Brook's corner thought he'd taken enough abuse. They threw in the towel on their fighter when he was taking as much abuse as he had all night long. Personally I didn't think that he was a beaten fighter. He was getting hit by flurries of punches, and he was having trouble getting out of the way of the punishment, but he hadn't been dropped, didn't take a knee to get a break, or show any sign that he couldn't continue to fight.<br />
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Golovkin would have probably beat Brook had the towel not been thrown, and that was what most boxing fans expected to happen when the fight was announced. We don't know that he would've but Kell was having trouble escaping GGG, who cuts the ring off as well as anyone. The power of GGG had been hard for the legit middleweight fighters to handle. Brook had absorbed it as well as any of the others had. There would be no reason for a rematch, but based off what I saw I think that Brook would do even better in a rematch. He exposed a few weaknesses in GGG game plan.<br />
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I thought the stoppage was premature. That was the trainers of the fighter and part of their job is to protect him. I didn't see enough evidence to justify stopping the fight. He was moving and having trouble escaping GGG who was cutting off the ring. That could have gone Kell's way still, but his corner who knows him better than I do thought he was done. I think Brook had moved well against GGG earlier in the fight when he tried cutting him off. He also proved that a boxer who can move his feet and box well from the outside can have success against Golovkin.<br />
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When Kell used his jab, moved his feet, and controlled the range, he was having success against the most feared champion in boxing right now. Golovkin was able to cut the ring off, but Kell countered that with good pivot moves that kept him in punching distance. That's where he found himself catching GGG with counter shots. His movement toward the ropes up and down kept him in good shape, but when he stayed too long in the corners or his back to the ropes it got dangerous. By the time Brook's corner threw the towel into the ring he was having trouble getting away from the pressure Golovkin was applying.<br />
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Kell Brook was able to frustrate GGG in a way that none of the other true middleweight fighters had done. The power of Golovkin was on full display, but the elusiveness of Brook rarely offered him a chance to just pound on him. When Golovkin did unload on him the effects were clear that he was hurting Brook. In the 5th round the corner thought he was hurt too bad to continue. His ability to get away from GGG had clearly diminished, but he was still game and appeared to be ready to fight. There's no way to know what might have happened, but Kell Brook made GGG look as bad as I've ever seen him look.<br />
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<b><i> Note: Kell Brook reportedly went to the hospital with a fractured bone on his face. </i></b>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-42481415021587259622016-09-10T17:46:00.000-07:002016-09-10T17:46:41.809-07:00Muhammad Ali - The Life and The Legend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">One small event in life can change everything. What if </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Cassius Marcellus Clay had never had his bike stolen? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">We'll never know because that bicycle was stolen and Clay turned to boxing. The rest would become history. Ali said he was "The Greatest" long before he knew he really was.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"> In the first three years of his career Muhammad Ali fought some of the best competition at the time, and he'd beaten them all. (Doug Jones, Henry Cooper, and 'The Old Mongoose' Archie Moore.) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Sonny Liston had beaten them all. He'd twice knocked out Cleveland Williams. He knocked out Zora Folley, and twice he knocked out former champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody gave Ali a chance of beating Liston. Nothing said it more than Ali being a 7-1 underdog. Sonny attacked him early and Ali moved and hit him. Keeping a safe distance from the champion. Something got in Ali's eye. Allegedly Sonny tried to blind him so he could go for the knockout. While Ali couldn't see he tried to knock him out. He failed and knew he couldn't beat the challenger. Sonny didn't answer the bell to open the 6th round. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">The rematch brought on more controversy when Sonny Liston allegedly took a dive. Ali caught him with a quick snapping punch. Liston went down and didn't beat the count. Liston had said after the first fight that he didn't answer the bell because his shoulder was hurt, but the second fight he was knocked out. Liston had thought to be unbeatable, and maybe he was because both fights with Ali were full of controversy. History can only tell it one way and Muhammad Ali beat the unbeatable Liston twice. </span><br />
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"I never thought of myself as great when I refused to go into the Army. All I did was stand up for what I believed. There were people who thought the war in Vietnam was right. And those people, if they went to war, acted just as brave as I did. There were people who tried to put me in jail. Some of them were hypocrites, but others did what they thought was proper and I can't condemn them for following their conscience either. people say I made a sacrifice, risking jail and my whole career. but God told Abraham to kill his son and Abraham was willing to do it, so why shouldn't I follow what I believed? Standing up for my religion made me happy; it wasn't a sacrifice. When people got drafted and sent to Vietnam and didn't understand what the killing was about and came home with one leg and couldn't get jobs, that was a sacrifice. But I believed in what i was doing, so no matter what the government did to me, it wasn't a loss.</div>
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"Some people thought I was a hero. Some people said that what I did was wrong. But everything I did was according to my conscience. I wasn't trying to be a leader. I just wanted to be free. And I made a stand all people, not just black people, should have thought about making, because it wasn't just black people being drafted. The government had a system where the rich man's son went to college, and the poor man's son went to war. Then, after the rich man's son got out of college, he did other things to keep him out of the Army until he was too old to be drafted. So what I did was for me, but it was the kind of decision everyone has to make. Freedom means being able to follow your religion, but it also means carrying the responsibility to choose between right and wrong. So when the time came for me to make up my mind about going in the Army, I knew people were dying in Vietnam for nothing and I should live by what I thought was right. I wanted America to be America. And now the whole world knows that, so far as my own beliefs are concerned, I did what was right for me."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">There were those who hated Ali after he refused induction. He was a draft dodger. When the country needed him to fight he wouldn't go. This is how most felt despite the fact that polls showed that we shouldn't even be in the war in the first place. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Muhammad Ali knew where it had gotten Joe Louis who went to war, and was later robbed by the IRS. They were going to strip Ali down to nothing, but he was going to learn from all of it and stand his ground in the process. This was his biggest fight yet, but he adapted like he'd always done in the ring. Sometimes you win, even when you lose. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years. - Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Muhammad Ali got a 3rd round TKO victory in his comeback fight. Jerry Quarry (37-4-4) was not the fight the fans wanted to see, but Ali needed a couple of fights before the biggest fight in boxing history. The Fight of the Century was a year away. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">While Ali was in exile there was another heavyweight cleaning out the division. Joe Frazier was destroying the competition. Muhammad let the fans know that regardless of title belts he was the real champion. He never lost the title in the ring and he let Joe Frazier and everyone else know that. Ali knew the fight was going to be huge, because both were undefeated. Ali chastised Joe in efforts to make the fight even bigger. Frazier didn't understand why a fight that big had to be made any bigger, and he was greatly offended by the things that Ali said about him. Joe had been there for Ali when he was trying to get reinstated in boxing. He could not believe Muhammad would say the things he did about him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were those who'd did not like Ali and had not forgiven him for draft dodging. Joe Frazier was no Uncle Tom as Ali has called him, but a lot of white boxing fans wanted to see Joe beat Ali and shut him up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both fighters looked good through the first couple of rounds, but anyone watching could see that Ali was not the Ali of old. He was not the fighter he'd been before they stripped him. Later Muhammad would adapt to the fighter he'd become. He was so much better than the competition before that when he lost a little it just brought him a little closer to the field. It didn't help him in that particular fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ali had taken a couple of tune up fights, but he was not ready for Joe Frazier. He hit Ali with shots in that fight that he'd never been hit by before. He could go to the gym and work his ass off, but something was gone that had been there before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joe Frazier dropped Ali early in the 15th round with what Bert Sugar describes as a 'left hook from hell'. Like the champion everyone knew he was, Ali got up off the floor. Joe Frazier had beat him by decision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things had changed for Ali. He was not the same fighter he'd been. Joe Frazier was the champion. Ali would win his next 10 fights in a row. Frazier would only successfully defend his title two more times. Then he would run into the new big boy on the block. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joe Frazier was a 7 to 1 favorite, but when the opening bell rang Joe Frazier was knocked three times in the first, and another three times in the 2nd, before the fight was stopped to save Smokin' Joe from anymore punishment. George Foreman had destroyed the only man to beat Muhammad Ali. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joe Frazier had lost his title to George Foreman, and Muhammad Ali had lost his first fight with Ken Norton. There are those who thought Ali lost both fights against Norton, but Ali was awarded the Split Decision victory in the 2nd Norton fight. Leading up to the fights with Ken Norton Muhammad Ali had defeated some quality fighters. (Jimmy Ellis, Buster Mathis, Jurgen Blin, Mac Foster, George Chuvalo and Jerry Quarry rematches, Patterson 2, and Joe Bugner) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali would win the second fight with Joe Frazier. Ali won the early rounds, Frazier took the middle rounds, and Ali closed the fight out winning the later rounds. Ali and Frazier were now even with a win and a loss against each other. Most fight fans saw the two rivals as even to each other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not Muhammad Ali...he believed he would win and ordered anyone who didn't think so out of his camp. Foreman had destroyed Frazier and Norton, and both guys had troubled and beaten Ali</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was no reason for anyone to believe that Muhammad Ali had a real shot at the heavyweight champion. Ali believed it and he convinced the rest of Zaire that he did too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">George Foreman was a stone cold killer. There wasn't a boxer in the game at that point that would've been favored against George Foreman. Nobody gave Muhammad Ali a chance against Liston who'd mentored Foreman. He defied the odds and beat Liston, but this time the deck was stacked against him even more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Muhammad Ali had shown signs of slowing down. He avenged the loss to Frazier, and he'd avenged the loss to Ken Norton, but he wasn't the fighter he'd been when he owned the 1960's. He was a shadow of the kid who'd upset Sonny Liston. Nobody even Ali fans thought he could beat George Foreman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was all he had. George had punched himself out. When Ali saw the opening he hit Foreman like he'd never been hit. The spent champion fell to the floor and could not beat the count. Muhammad Ali defied the odds and regained his title for a 3rd time. Nobody could ever doubt his being the best. Ali had become the champion again, and the best heavyweight champion ever in the process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He should have retired following that unbelievable victory over Foreman, but he didn't. He defended his title against Chuck Wepner. This fight is where Sylvester Stallone says he got the idea for the characters Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed. Ali beat Wepner by TKO in the 15th round. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next up was the hard hitting Ron Lyle (30-2-1 25 KO)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ron Lyle got a late start as a professional boxer. He was 30 years old when he turned pro. Lyle was a strong heavyweight and could box on the inside or the outside. George Foreman said Lyle was the toughest guy he ever fought. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ron Lyle was out boxing Ali early on. Ali had not been the fighter he was in the 60's, but he adapted and was still among the best. Against Lyle you could see he'd slipped a little more. This was not the fighter he'd been when he'd beat Frazier in the rematch or when he shocked the world, again, when he beat Foreman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali knew he'd lost some early rounds to Lyle. The middle rounds he picked up the pace and cut into Lyle's lead. In the 11th round the referee jumped in and stopped the fight when Ali was pouring it on. Ron Lyle's corner was not happy with the stoppage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These were not the two fighters that had fought in the 'Fight of the Century'. Ali had won the rematch, but he was far from being the fighter he'd been at that point. Joe Frazier didn't think he was the fighter that had beat Foreman. Joe wasn't what he'd been, but he believed the slip had been farther for Ali. On the other hand Muhammad Ali didn't think Frazier was what he had been and could rack up another victory over him. Neither man was what he had been, and it made for a great fight. </span><br />
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The main turning point of the fight came very late. It came midway through the thirteenth round when one of two tremendous right-hand smashes sent the gum shield sailing out of Frazier's mouth. The sight of this man actually moving backwards seemed to inspire Ali. I swear he hit Frazier with thirty tremendous punches—each one as hard as those which knocked out George Foreman in Zaire—during the fourteenth round. He was dredging up all his own last reserves of power to make sure there wouldn't have to be a fifteenth round.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Seeing the results of round 14, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Futch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Eddie Futch">Eddie Futch</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> decided to stop the fight between rounds rather than risk a similar or worse fate for Frazier in the 15th. Frazier protested stopping the fight, shouting "I want him, boss," and trying to get Futch to change his mind. Futch replied, "It's all over. No one will forget what you did here today", and signaled to referee </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Padilla,_Jr." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Carlos Padilla, Jr.">Carlos Padilla, Jr.</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> to end the bout. Ali would later claim that this was the closest to dying he had ever been.</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> Unbeknownst to Frazier's corner, at the end of the 14th round Ali instructed his corner men to cut his gloves off, but Dundee ignored him. Ali later told his biographer </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hauser" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Hauser">Thomas Hauser</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">, "Frazier quit just before I did. I didn't think I could fight any more."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a fight that Alffredo Evangelista could've only dreamed of getting a shot at the title so early in his career. Muhammad Ali should've taken the inexperienced kid to school, but despite getting the win, Ali did not take him to school or even look very impressive in victory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali would say later after his career was over that Earnie Shavers hit harder than any fighter he'd ever been hit by. There was little doubt that Ali was shot. Ferdie Pacheco had just left the entourage because he didn't want to be a part of running Muhammad out there anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everything they suspected was true. Muhammad Ali was damaged and had slowed down. His style and form kept him in there with a chance to win, but making no mistakes about it Ali was shot as a fighter when he stepped into the ring with Shavers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Muhammad took a shot in the second round that would've dropped most fighters. It proved he still had an iron chin. Though his skills were limited at this point he could still throw a little and he could still absorb a hard shot. The NY Times had it 7-7-1 draw. I personally don't think that's an accurate score. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An old Ali could still box better than Shavers. The real challenge was not getting dropped by such a powerful puncher. Earnie had incredible power, but he would not catch Ali and he would not out box the great champion. Muhammad would get the UD victory over another Hall of Fame fighter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the first time in his career Ali was silent. He was not trash-talking the 6-0-1 Leon Spinks. Nobody knew who he was and there was no reason for Ali to talk down to or try to intimidate such an inferior opponent. Ali went into silence and this didn't help promote a fight that needed all the help it could get. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like the other unknowns that Muhammad Ali fought, Spinks trained like hell for the fight with the great champion. Those close to Leon say training wasn't something Spinks wanted to do. For the Ali fight his trainers didn't have to convince him to workout. Leon knew this was his big shot. He wanted to make the most of the opportunity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali on the other hand was taking on another unknown opponent like, Coopman, Dunn, and Evangalista had all been. Ali had not only been on the decline, but he'd been completely shot during his fights with these guys. Some Ali fans wondered why it had to come to this, but like those around him would say, Ali was still winning and defending his titles. He still wanted to fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Angelo Dundee once said that the fighter would know when it was time to quit. It's safe to say the Muhammad didn't know when that time was. Nobody around him was telling him it's over, and one can only assume he didn't notice there were physical changes in himself. He was shaking and his speech was not clear anymore. This was a busted and broken Muhammad Ali. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leon Spinks had taken Ali's title. Muhammad said, he was borrowing the titles and that he'd be taking them back. Ali also said that upon retaining his titles he would retire. Sadly that would not be the case, but Ali would train and come into the rematch in the best shape he could get his worn out body into. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This debilitated Ali actually thought Spinks was a great fighter. He didn't understand that average heavyweights were hanging around with him. Had the real number one contender Ken Norton got a fourth fight he'd have more than likely beat Muhammad Ali. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1980 Muhammad Ali would return to the boxing ring. That's right...they allowed this man with the slurring of his speech to go back into the boxing ring. He'd sparred Larry Holmes when the youngster was coming up. Larry was a big strong heavyweight, but I'm sure Ali had bested him in the sparring sessions. That had been years earlier and now Larry Holmes was the new face of the heavyweight division. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali wanted to shock the world again and become a four time champion. He also admits that he took the fight because it was there. To beat Larry Holmes would've been shocking to say the least. Considering everyone had watch the decline of Muhammad Ali he was given little chance to win. He'd struggled with Coopman, Young, Dunn, Evangalista, and Leon Spinks. None of those were close to the caliber fighter he'd face in Holmes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ken Norton had been awarded the belt in 1978 when Spinks gave Ali a rematch instead of fighting him. Norton's first defense of the title was to Larry Holmes. He lost the belt that he'd never officially won in the ring. Holmes was the champion and was at his best when he met Ali in 1980. Muhammad Ali was not anywhere close to his best. Right the opposite. Ali failed test conducted by the boxing commission and was ordered to undergo further testing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Muhammad Ali would come into the fight at the lightest weight he'd been at since George Foreman. Although he was talking slower...he was still talking trash to Holmes. Larry responded to the taunting. He didn't want to engage in that kind of banter with a man who'd become legendary. He knew he was going to destroy Muhammad Ali, and he knew it wasn't the best Ali, despite the fact that Ali did appear to be in good physical shape. Larry was the best heavyweight in 1980 and he believed he would have beat any version of Muhammad Ali. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry Holmes dominated the great champion. There were times late in the fight when Holmes asked, "are you going to stop this fight?" The Greatest of All Time was battered and beaten. By the 12th round his corner led by Angelo Dundee had seen enough. The finally stopped the massacre of a great but defeated champion. Ali had given all he had to give. He was not going to regain the title, shock the world, or defeat Larry Holmes. If anything his corner let him take too much of a beating before they stopped it in the 10th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the loss to Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali vowed to comeback and fight again. He blamed the loss on medication he was taking for a thyroid problem. His thyroid was fine. Ali was punch drunk and the early stages of hypertension were setting in. He was shaking and mumbling telling everyone he'd fight again. Those closest to him should have told him he was done, but nobody did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ali had defied the odds before. Those situations were much different from the circumstances he found himself in. The fighter is always the last one to know it's over, it was over, and Ali didn't know that it was. The beating he'd taken from Larry had been excused away. He could beat a lesser opponent. He wanted to return to the ring. He didn't want to end it on the sad note he'd experienced in the Holmes fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most boxing fans didn't want to see Muhammad Ali enter the ring again. The last time was an embarrassing effort against the heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. Several different venues had refused to host the fight. Muhammad Ali had always been able to fill the seats, but this fight would take place without drawing real interest. It would be held in Nassau, and titled 'The Drama in Bahama'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a fight Ali should have never been involved in. The fans were nervous about his return to the ring. Even those who never really liked Ali didn't want to see what could potentially happen to the once great champion. He hadn't knocked anyone out in over five years and it was questionable whether or not he could even hold his own. Ali looked pretty good early on, but up and coming Berbick was too much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ali lost a ten round UD to a fighter that would one day become champion. The scores were 99-94, 97-94, and 96-94. Father Time had caught up with Ali, and he said so after the fight. He knew in his heart that it was over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't think Berbick could have handled Ali if he'd fought him four or five years earlier. He was an easier opponent than Holmes had been, but Ali was still too far gone to hold his own with a lesser fighter. </span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Muhammad Ali: "I think I'm too old. I was slow. I was weak. Nothing but Father Time. The things I wanted to do, I couldn't do. I was doing my best. I did good for a 39-year-old. I think I'm finished. I know it's the end. I'm not crazy. After Holmes, I had excuses. I was too light. Didn't breathe right. No excuses this time. I'm happy. I'm still pretty. I could have a black eye. Broken teeth. Split lips. I think I came out all right for an old man."</li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muhammad Ali ended his career with a record of 56-5. If he'd not lost valuable years in the prime of his career we can't even imagine how things might have been. The Ali we got upon his return was nothing like the Ali from the 1960's. He didn't have the speed and for the first time we got to see that he had an iron chin. Ali adapted to the competition of the 1970's and would best them all. Even when his skills were depleted in the late 70's into the early 80's, and he shouldn't have been in the ring, he adapted to the competition and competed with them. </span><br />
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<br />Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-80342159792726782712016-06-21T19:44:00.001-07:002016-06-21T19:44:42.943-07:00Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter: Fight Breakdown and Predictions <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a fight that I have been waiting on since the time they both agreed to fight. Before any deal was made these two men agreed to fight each other. It's a huge risk for both fighters, because they've both built a reputation that's just short PPV money. Shawn Porter had been the first to be on the door step of stardom when he fought Kell Brook. He lost in a very competitive fight, and did more after the loss to build his brand than Kell did after the win. Shawn Porter has put some decent names on his resume. Keith Thurman has climbed the ladder the way a fighter does as they move up. The competition had gotten a little tougher each time he fought. Now this is where he's made it. The next fight had to be a big one and a fight with Porter is that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thurman had to postpone the fight. Keith had allegedly been in a car wreck and injured himself. The boxing fans were not happy as most felt it was Thurman trying to get out of the fight. Shawn Porter was willing to give him time to recover from the injuries, and the fight would still be on. Personally I felt all along that Thurman needed more time to train. Shawn Porter trains almost full time. I believe Thurman realized he was being outworked by Porter leading up to the fight. One thing is for sure...Thurman needed more time whether it was for injuries sustained in a car wreck, or to catch up with Porter in training. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been almost a year since we've seen Keith Thurman. He stopped Luis Collazo in his last fight. Thurman stopped him, but question arose when Collazo hit Thurman with a body shot that almost dropped him. Shawn Porter likes to go to the body, and if he'd landed that shot on Thurman he would've gone down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see this as a 50/50 fight. This will be a close hard fought battle in my opinion. Both are really good fighters. I hear a lot of people say Thurman is vulnerable to the body, but that's based off him taking one hard shot against Collazo, and despite the fact that it did hurt him...he didn't go down. There is no real knock against Porter even though he lost to Kell Brook, and some consider him to be the best welterweight right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shawn Porter is somewhat aggressive. He picks his spots to open up, but he does this while moving forward. Thurman is one to give up a lot of ground, but I think he will to Porter because he's likely to find more success countering him. Thurman is capable of creating his own offense, but against Porter he can pretty much take what he gives him. Shawn Porter isn't just blind aggression, but his style does leave him open for good counter punchers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andre Ward won the Super 6 Tournament back in 2011. After his unanimous decision win over Carl Froch to claim the trophy, he was considered one of the best. Almost a year later he defeated Chad Dawson and appeared to be the highly touted fighter everyone thought he was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He didn't follow up that huge victory with Dawson with another big fight. Instead he was out of the ring for over a year before fighting then 24-0 Edwin Rodriguez. That would be the last time Ward was in the ring for over a year. He didn't fight in 2014 at all. Finally he made a long awaited comeback in 2015. He defeated Paul Smith by TKO on May 20, 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone could see after the Super 6 Tournament that Andre Ward was as skilled and polished as any fighter in the game. The inactivity had made him somewhat a forgotten fighter. Between injuries and contract disputes the boxing community wondered if he wasn't another what-might-have-been story. With the departure of Floyd Mayweather it left boxing with a huge spot to fill. Many feel that Ward was the man to fill the spot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His 2015 bout with Paul Smith was a nice fight to come back with, but it's not the level of opposition that he'd been fighting. Ward had built a Hall of Fame career by the age of thirty. We're now approaching another year since his fight with Smith and Ward has been looking for that big fight. Time is not on his side anymore but if he never would've fought again he'd created one helluva resume. What he really needed was a big fight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fans these fighters would take it in all different directions. This guy is ducking that guy, but is willing to fight that guy. These fighters realize that they're only going to be in the top spot for so long, and it's business above all else. They want the most reward for the least risk. </span></div>
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has never been known for his defense, but in the small sampling under
Freddie Roach it appears he's much improved. Canelo has a pretty
good defense, and with all the improvements Miguel has made
defensively I still think the advantage is Canelo's. </span></span>
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fighters can work pretty good behind the jab, but the two of them
have a tendency to get sloppy. They're easily persuaded into
brawling. The fighter who keeps his composure will win this fight. I
think the two fighters are very close to even offensively.</span></span></div>
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under Roach. Our first sampling of him in the ring came against a
broken and busted up Sergio Martinez. Anyone who gives him full
credit for that win doesn't know much about Sergio Martinez. He beat
him. There's no doubt about it, but Martinez was on two bad knees
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hits very hard. In his younger days he'd get in there and just bang,
because he knew he could take more of their punches than they could
his. He's been in there with the best fighters. Cotto knows how to
work the ring and manipulate his opponent. They're looking at his
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<span style="font-family: "mongolian baiti" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Canelo
was out boxed when he faced Floyd Mayweather, and really he was out
boxed by both Trout and Lara. Canelo works behind a good guard, but
his footwork is not very good for a championship caliber fighter. The
fact that his guard is good and he knows how to work behind the jab
he's found success. However a quicker fighter can and has beat him. I
don't believe that Cotto has the pure boxing skills of Mayweather,
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has beaten all the aggressive type fighter, which Cotto can be, but
it's a controlled aggression. When fighters get wild and want to bang
it gives Canelo a chance to counter, but against quicker boxers those
countering opportunities are not there. Cotto is a mixture of both
types of fighter. He's a boxer-puncher. If he is moving and boxing
Canelo will have trouble with him. Canelo has power that could stop
Miguel Cotto, but he has to land the shots. </span></span>
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once in a while they give us the fights we want to see. This is one
of those for me. The fighting styles promise this will be a good one.
Both of these men will look to box, but the real question is when
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will try to box with Canelo, but he will not find success that way.
He will figure that out early in the fight. I do not believe Miguel
Cotto will fight Canelo's fight and just give away rounds. I can see
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technical boxers are the fighters who give Canelo problems. That is
not exactly what Cotto is. If Canelo stays true to his style and
doesn't make unnecessary changes he should win this fight, however if
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before. He'll predictably do what he does, but it's effective against
even the best fighters. Cotto will have to be moving and constantly
setting up different angles that are not beneficial to Canelo. He'll
need to keep him turning all night, and opening up power punching
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to do in order to win. He will do it and especially early on. Cotto
has some bounce in his legs, but eventually he'll start getting
picked off and countered. When Canelo starts landing his power shots
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<b>Leo Santa Cruz is a real good boxer and if he can keep the distance he wants he won't lose. Mares has some real power behind his punches. I honestly have this fight at a 50/50 toss up, but Cruz might have a slight advantage because of his boxing skills, and if Mares hasn't overcome the 1st round KO loss to Gonzalez then the advantage is huge for Sana Cruz. With everyone at their best it could be fight of the year. </b><br />
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<b> Santa Cruz by split decision. </b>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-26656790501185176322015-08-25T18:17:00.000-07:002015-08-25T18:17:55.060-07:00Top 10 Heavyweights of All Time <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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For year I've watched and studied boxing. Based on the fights I've watched and the material I've studied this Top 10 was created. I consider myself a knowledgeable fight fan, and somewhat a boxing historian. I believe the fighters on this list are the 10 best heavyweights of all time. They could have competed with any fighter from any era.<br />
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Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion. Johnson's career started before there was much organization in the sport. His record does not indicate the power of this champion fighter. Johnson fought when fights went 45, 20, and 15 rounds. Johnson had no problem going the extremely long distances, and would have been a problem for any fighter in boxing history. He's firmly in my top 10, because he won when the odds were stacked against him. </h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9. Sonny Liston (50-4)</span><br />
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Sonny Liston was a tough and feared champion. He was deserving of a shot at a title long before he got one. Cus D'Amato didn't want his champion Floyd Patterson to fight Liston, but the talk got loud and Patterson went against his trainers wishes. Liston destroyed Patterson for his title, and then he'd lose it to a young brash heavyweight...Muhammad Ali. Liston only lost 4 fights in his career and two were to Ali. </h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8 Jack Dempsey (54-6-9)</span><br />
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Jack Dempsey took on some of the best fighters in an era that followed Jack Johnson. Fights still went 20+ rounds. Dempsey had a crowd pleasing style of fighting. His attack was nonstop and relentless. He didn't fare too well with Gene Tunney at the end of his career as he dropped two in a row before retiring from boxing. </h4>
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Larry Holmes had one of the best jabs in boxing history. Holmes won his first 48 fights in a row. He took the heavyweight title from Ken Norton in 1978. Holmes held the title until 1983, and that is the 3rd longest reign of the title. In 1980 he defeated an old and slow Muhammad Ali, and that was the true changing of the guard. </h4>
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Smoking Joe Frazier was one of the greatest heavyweights in an era when the division was loaded. He only lost Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. He'd lose two fights to each of them, but he did manage 1 of 3 fights against Ali. Joe Frazier had one of the best left hooks that boxing has ever seen, and his constant movement made him hard to hit flush. He knocked out 27 of 32. His final fight was a draw with Floyd Cummings. </h4>
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The tale of two careers. Big George Foreman did enough in the first part of his career to be considered for the HOF, but then he made a comeback after sitting out almost a decade. George Foreman would go on to become the oldest heavyweight champ ever. In the first part of his career he was considered unstoppable, and nobody at the time thought he could be beat. Foreman took on the best opposition in both halves of his career. I think Big George would have matched up with any fighter in boxing history. </h4>
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The Rock!!! It's plain and it's simple. Rocky was an undersized heavyweight champion who never lost a fight. He fought bigger guys and he fought faster guys, but he could take the hits and he could give them too. Rocky was extremely powerful. If he'd fought in the cruiser or light heavyweight divisions he wouldn't have even been properly tested. At 190 lbs I'd take Marciano over anyone in boxing history. </h4>
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What Joe Louis did for boxing may be his biggest accomplishments. When he was called to serve his country in the war, he stood as tall as he did in the boxing ring. Louis held the world championship title for twelve consecutive years. He only lost one fight in his first sixty-two fights. Joe Louis had pinpoint punches, and he outsmarted the other fighters putting them right where he wanted them. While Joe Louis was serving his country in WW2 he put on free exhibition fights for the soldiers. The free fights were for his country, and later the IRS would take everything he had. He was a hero when the country needed him most, during the war and the great depression. His quick punches and his ability to dictate the fight would give him a chance to beat anyone. </h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Muhammad Ali (56-5)</span><br />
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The Greatest of All Time: There has never been a boxer as complete as Muhammad Ali. There has never been a heavyweight fighter who could move as gracefully as Ali. Unlike Joe Louis, Muhammad refused induction into the Vietnam draft. This cost Ali valuable time in the prime of his career. Ali hung on too long in the end, but perhaps he wanted to make up for lost time. Muhammad Ali was a talker, and he was known for taking it too far at times, but I truly believe he was hyping himself and the fight.</h4>
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Ali shocked the world when he beat Sonny Liston #9 on this list. He beat Floyd Patterson who just missed the list. Muhammad Ali beat every relevant heavyweight of the time. Upon his return to boxing he took on #6 on this list, Joe Frazier. Ali lost to Frazier. He was not the same Ali that he'd been. Something had been lost during his ban from boxing. He was about 80% of what he'd been, but that was still better than everyone else. He would avenge his loss to Frazier with a couple of wins in two brutal fights. </h4>
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ali came out in round number one with a little bounce in his movement. He moved around the ring in a similar fashion to the young Ali. He appeared to me moving well enough to keep Foreman outside. Muhammad had snap on his punches, and Foreman seemed to be willing to land whatever he could. Foreman threw very powerful punches. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are those who believe Keith Thurman is ducking top level fighters. First let me start by saying I do not believe this. At one point or another Thurman said he'd fight every fighter that they claim he's ducking. I've heard him call out, Mayweather, Khan, Porter, and he said Kell Brook's management called him about a fight, but wouldn't respond when Thurman called them back. Thurman didn't go from being ducked to ducking fighters. It's my opinion that these fighters want to make it look like they want it, but they're just saving face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Travis Gotti Boxing - In the video above you'll hear Travis explain why he thinks Thurman is the one ducking guys. He obviously doesn't remember that Thurman had been asking for these fights. These guys that Thurman is allegedly ducking have been on his wish list for awhile now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This all started after Louis Collazo hit Thurman with a body shot to the liver. Now they think Thurman has been exposed. It was a shot that would have dropped most fighters, but Thurman stayed upright and moved to buy some time. How easy they forget what happened from that point. Thurman made the tough Louis Collazo quit on the stool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that Keith Thurman is turning his attention to another fight he'd been wanting the talk is starting again about Brook. Thurman has turned his attention to Shawn Porter, and Kell Brook is talking to Timothy Bradley. They're still out there saying that Thurman is ducking the top fighters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This all comes with Mayweather convincing the boxing public that Thurman was ducking Errol Spence. Thurman has continuously explained that Spence hasn't done enough in the sport yet. That was Mayweather's excuse not to fight Thurman and he's done a lot more than Spence has done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Floyd wants to see Thurman fight Spence the price is out there. He could easily pay the ten million and get the fight. The fight could be built up and the money would be nothing. Floyd could sell this fight with ease. It's what he wanted to see and the fans would jump at the chance to see his match making. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurman has wanted the Mayweather fight, and Floyd brought up Errol Spence to shift the focus somewhere else. If Errol Spence isn't in the top 10 then why should Thurman fight him? Spence has talent and the fight could be made in the near future, but right now Thurman wants Shawn Porter, Kell Brook, Amir Khan, and we all know he's wanted Mayweather. He's not ducking anyone and that is fact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurman has been asking for these fights. He's wanted the biggest names at 147, and had called all of them out at one point or another. He's gotten nothing in return and took the Guerrero fight when Khan didn't want to fight. Keith had wants and has wanted these fights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fight between Porter and Thurman seems to be what's up next. Both fighters want the fight and I don't think either of them are afraid to make it happen. There are politics in boxing, but both of the guys are tired of the runaround they've received. With Floyd fighting Andre Berto these guys aren't going to get that fight. If they fight each other and Floyd doesn't retire, then the winner would clearly be the next man up for Floyd Mayweather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freddie Roach says Pacquiao wants a fight with Danny Garcia when he returns in 2016. There are several reasons why this fight would work, but there are several reasons why it's not the best option for either fighter. This fight has been on the radar for team Pacquiao defeated Chris Algieri. They were planning on going down to junior welterweight to make the fight happen. Of course when the fight against Mayweather came about the Garcia fight was temporarily off the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pacquiao brings a name to the table. Garcia brings an undefeated record to the table. They both bring something for the other fighter to gain. Garcia would probably get the most out of the fight. By beating Pacquiao he'd be as relevant and in line for a title shot with Brook, Thurman, or maybe even Mayweather. Pacquiao doesn't have as much to gain, but if he can put a loss on Danny then he might get another one at Floyd. That's what he wants and all that should really matter. Bad shoulder or not...he's got to want another crack at Floyd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freddie Roach had this to say during the Boxing News Exclusive: </span><br />
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“Manny’s shoulder is getting better. We had a little trouble with the rehab because he didn’t want to come to American so we got a guy to go out there [to the Philippines] and work with him every day,” he said.</div>
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“He tells me it feels better, he went swimming the other day, he’s playing a little basketball so he says it’s coming along fine. But it won’t be a while until he’s in the ring again, three to six months.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What about a fight with Floyd Mayweather? </span></div>
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“I don’t know where Mayweather’s going right now. I don’t think he’ll stop at 49 fights, I think he’ll fight to 50. I’m hoping that he promotes himself, maybe if he does he can make more money,” he said.</div>
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“Manny would do much better in a rematch, if the shoulder gets better. We were doing well until the shoulder went in the fourth round and we had a tough time after that. I do think we can beat Mayweather 100%.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most boxing fans don't give Andre Berto much of a shot at winning a fight with the P4P best Floyd Mayweather. He's 3-3 in his last six fights, and that includes being knocked out by Jesus Soto Karass who brought a 27-8-2 record into the fight. Soto Karass stopped him in the 12th round of their 2013 fight. That was two years ago and Berto has won his last two since being upset by journeyman Soto Karass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his last fight he stopped Josesito Lopez. He's a decent stepping stone fighter. Berto stopped him in the 6th round. That doesn't erase a loss to Soto Karass, but stopping Lopez half way through the fight shows he could've beat Soto Karass. Berto took a beating at the hands of Robert Guerrero. He had moments in that fight when he looked pretty good, but for the most part he was dominated. Guerrero had a reach advantage that he properly used. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the upcoming fight against Mayweather, Berto will again find himself at a disadvantage in reach. Robert Guerrero used the reach advantage and boxed Berto from the outside with ease. Guerrero also fought Mayweather, but Floyd gave him a boxing lesson. The reach advantage wasn't there for Guerrero when he fought Mayweather. The hand speed of Floyd was the difference, as he hit Guerrero whenever he wanted. What can Berto really do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andre Berto is a fighter that likes to move forward. That will be a must when he faces Mayweather. The other things he does are no good against Mayweather. Berto can hit hard and has decent hand speed. Styles make fights and the style match up is all wrong for Berto. That's why Floyd picked him in the first place. He knows that Berto tries to stay right in the face on his opponent, but he keeps his guard low, doesn't use good angles, and is right there to be found with a straight right hand. What is Floyd's favorite punch?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He needs to come forward like he always does. His guard needs to be high and he must mix in some head movement. He is short compared to Mayweather, and his hand speed isn't as quick as Floyd's. If his guard is high it protects him as he comes in, and his head should be moving and not staying still on the center line. Mayweather would have to hit a moving target instead of one that sits there waiting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know that Floyd Mayweather is a counter puncher. He hits and moves, or hits and goes into the Philly Shell defense. When he goes into the shell it's a way of defending, but not having to exit the combat zone. From the shell he's like a snake coiled up ready to strike. If he's able to sit up in the shell and counter, then there isn't nearly enough pressure being put on him. Nobody ever said Mayweather had powerful punches, but when he's moving back those punches have even less sting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Berto fights the way he always has there'll be zero chance for him to win. Floyd picked him because he tailor made for Floyd's style. Floyd hasn't had a knockout since Ortiz, and you can bet Berto was picked to give him that shot. Mayweather will use good angles to turn him and hit him with the straight right hand all night. Berto stays there hoping to evade and block punches, but he stays parked in the combat zone. Floyd knows that he stays right there, and doesn't move his head off the center line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the opening bell rings Andre Berto should go right after Floyd. He might catch him off guard. When I say go after him I mean moving in quick. Head movement keeping his head off the center line. If he doesn't get there quick enough Floyd will fire away, but it'll be defensive rather than offensive to keep Berto outside where he wants him to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Berto is moving the head he won't eat as many punches. If Mayweather gets outside he'll have to move in on him relentlessly cutting the ring off. Floyd will move around until he thinks Berto has lost steam. If he can't catch him or can't maintain the chase, then he needs to find the right distance for Floyd to come at him. He's still using head movement, but now standing his ground rather than moving in. Now he's looking to counter, so he's using good pivot while looking to get him opened up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If he can turn Mayweather, then the hooks and uppercuts will be there. If Floyd tries to keep him at the proper distance for him, then Berto must move back in using the head movement and high guard. Andre Berto will be backing him up while he attacks, and when he's not attacking he finds the proper distance and rests to go in again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Constant pressure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The hands are high protecting the chin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Mayweather keeps him at the end of his punches then Berto isn't doing things right. The movement would look similar to those of Joe Frazier or Mike Tyson. If he's turning him properly then it will look like what Pacquiao did to Cotto and Margarito. He has to maintain the constant aggression, and if he's unable to do so, then he has to have made Floyd not just want to come after him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice the way Frazier attacks Ali. This is a heavyweight version of what Berto must do. Frazier kept the pressure up and kept moving in on Muhammad Ali. It was the only way he could have won this fight. If he'd tried to box him from the outside, then Ali would have killed him. If he tried to stand in the combat zone like Berto does, then Ali would have killed him. It was the movement that won him the fight. Berto can hit hard. He's not going to get those chances if he doesn't move Mayweather open. It does not take a miracle to add head movement to the game plan. There's no way he wins without it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The peek-a-boo style would be the best approach to combat Mayweather. If this style is properly used then all of the things from the list above will happen. The pressure, the head movement, the angles, and opening for the power punches. The style works best against a fighter who throws long straight shots. Like the straight right hand that Mayweather tries to throw. A quick move gets the peek-a-boo fighter inside the arm. That is where he wants to be to throw the power shots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Mayweather is moving and punching it opens everything up. Berto must do something similar or just like my plan for him. It will work because I've seen Mayweather's tendencies when pressure is applied. He will move and try to keep the distance. Pacquiao put Mayweather on the run and even got inside, but he didn't create the angles you noticed in the Margarito fight. At times he was able to turn Mayweather, but he was never able to open him up or keep him cornered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fight against Victor Ortiz was an incredible fight. From a fans point of view it was all you could ask for, But Berto isn't a fan. He was in there toe-to-toe with Ortiz slugging it out. With proper head movement he could have caught Ortiz getting wild and sloppy, but the problem is he didn't have any movement with the head or otherwise. He stood in the pocket and threw bombs with his opponent. Make sure you realize walking someone down, and just standing in the combat zone are not the same thing. Floyd is not going to stand in the pocket, and if Berto tries to move in and stay there Floyd will kill him. If Berto fights him like he did Ortiz then he'll eat the straight right hand all night. </span><br />
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<b><i>Good luck Andre Berto - I hope this info finds you. </i></b>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-81088682002351497712015-08-04T20:56:00.000-07:002015-08-04T20:56:43.616-07:00The Fight That Nobody Has Been Waiting For : Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Floyd Mayweather could have picked anyone he wanted for his next fight. You had Keith Thurman the #1 contender, or champion Kell Brook. There was Amir Khan calling him out. Floyd made him think he was going to get the fight, but for two fights Floyd has went elsewhere for an opponent. There was Porter who beat Adrien Broner. Maidana did that and got two fights with Floyd. There's Timothy Bradley and he looks good on any fighters resume. Floyd could have went with any fighter in the top five, but he didn't do it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andre Berto, you are next. Why? There's only one reason, and even the die-hard Mayweather fans know what that is. He wants to honor the contract and remain unbeaten. It has been rumored for about a month, it would be Berto or Mayfield. The Mayweather fans said he's just joking. He'll end up fighting someone else. Nobody liked hearing he was going to fight one of those two guys. Then he said it would be on network television. A match-up so one sided could only be free, but it's not on network television; it's on Showtime PPV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has to make Berto feel pretty good that he got selected. He didn't do anything, he didn't win his way into a shot. Berto was handpicked by Floyd because he considers him an easy win to finish out the Showtime contract. I figure Berto wants to take a shot at the 0 on Mayweather's record, and he's probably been training hard, but knowing what's thought of him should light a fire in him that can't be put out. Nobody believes he has a serious shot at getting the victory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nobody wanted this fight and that includes some die hard Mayweather fans. The fight makes no sense and I've already heard regular PPV buyers say they won't purchase Mayweather-Berto. Floyd is smart enough to know that a fight with Berto wouldn't draw big numbers. So there has to be another reason to make such a one sided fight. The only thing I can see it being is Mayweather is going for the long overdue knockout. I don't expect Berto to win and neither does anyone else. There's no pressure from expectations. I still don't see what would be the biggest upset in boxing history taking place. </span></div>
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This fight was huge. Everyone following the fight knew that something had to give. Marvin Hagler had the middleweight championship, and Tommy Hearns entered as the mandatory #1 challenger. Hagler had been the champion for five years when the fight took place. Tommy Hearns was long and could box, but when he needed to fight on the inside he could do that too. Boxing fans knew they were going to get something great. Not in their wildest dreams could they have imagined what they'd get.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you can see from the video above the first round was absolutely brutal. They went right after each other and neither was willing to relent. They were out for blood and trying to knock each other out. It was brutally clear after the 1st round that the fight would not be going the distance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the second round it was clear that Tommy Hearns was fighting on tired legs. He would admit after the fight that his legs were gone. He tried to box Hagler who was switching from southpaw to orthodox trying to do maximum damage. The pace of the fight had slowed down from what the first round had provided.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 3rd round would provide the end. Tommy was on weakened legs. So he did the only thing he could do and that's keep Marvin at the end of his punches. He tried to box and keep that safe distance. He managed to really open the cut up on Marvin's face. He'd been cut in the first round but the blood was really coming down his face in the 3rd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The referee had the doctor look at the cut on Hagler's face. They let him go because the blood was not affecting his sight. Marvin got worried the the cut would become an issue and maybe cause a stoppage. He opened up with a relentless attack and went after Tommy Hearns with knockout on his mind. Tommy still wanted to box at this point, but Tommy had knockout power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Marvin hit him with several punches that had him looking for the ropes. Tommy's movements indicated he was hurt, and then just moments later he smiled at Hagler as if to say I'm not hurt. He wasn't just hurt, he was a beaten and defeated fighter. Tommy hadn't been able to keep him off of him, and Hagler landed a vicious right hand that landed on the button. Tommy Hearns looked dead as he hit the floor. Amazingly he managed to beat the count and got up. The ref grabbed him and called a halt to the bout. Tommy was basically out on his feet. The champion Marvin Hagler had a blood painted face. Both men went through hell and will always be remembered for the brutal display of boxing that took place that night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-83423861150877311752015-08-02T17:44:00.000-07:002015-08-02T17:44:59.061-07:00Danny Garcia Stopped Paulie Malignaggi - What's Next for Garcia <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Paulie Couldn't Get the Job Done</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the fight opened up I thought Paulie might be in Danny Garcia's head. I had never saw Danny wear a mask and then he refused to look at Paulie. When the fight got underway I noticed that Paulie had a little footwork going. His legs looked fresh. I figured that would give him the opportunities to go in and out working the jab as he moves. Garcia looked slow and appeared to be looking to drop the power right hand on him. Paulie never got the jab working. He maintained decent footwork, and he made Garcia miss a little, but Malignaggi could get anything off himself. So he ended up being a punching bag with good footwork. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The referee told Paulie before the round started that he wasn't going to allow him to take too much abuse. Paulie understood but found himself in trouble, and the ref had to stop the fight. The fight had been one sided and there was every reason in the world to stop it. Paulie hadn't been competitive since the third round and looked like he'd given up. He knew he wasn't going to win and he just wanted to survive and grab the moral victory. Garcia had no intention of letting him make it 12 rounds. Danny Garcia had won every round. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paulie said after the fight that he thought that was probably his last fight. I hope for his sake that it was his final time in the ring. Everything Paulie ever was depended on his quickness. That is gone and there is nothing else about him that makes him a threat. I thought he had a chance against Garcia because of the style match up. All signs pointed to Paulie going down, however with it being his final go at it, I just expected a little more. It just wasn't there anymore and proved that he needs to retire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paulie is luckier than most. He's got a good job with Showtime, and he's knowledgeable and insightful. I think he adds to their broadcast. Most fighters don't have the chance to stay close to the game when they are finished. Paulie is lucky in that way. Some fighters still have something left at 34 years old, but others hit that wall sooner. The best thing a fighter can do is to know when to walk away. I hope Paulie and those around him shut it down. I truthfully thought he should have called it quits after Porter nearly killed him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny Garcia won every round against Paulie Malignaggi. He dominated Paulie the way an elite fighter has to do. Both Adrien Broner and Shawn Porter went through Paulie Malignaggi, and that ended up with them facing each other. Paulie has been the stepping stone fighter, the gateway to bigger fights. Danny went down that road tonight. Paulie is a small welterweight fighter that had moved his way up from lightweight. He was not the big true welterweights that are out there. The guys that a fight like this leads to are natural welterweights. They don't come up to 147. They come down to 147. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny said after the fight that he felt good fighting at the heavier weight. I thought he looked slower and even though he was dominating Paulie it didn't always look good. Danny looked slow and missed bad as he tried to drop the hammer on Paulie. I couldn't help but think the top five welterweights would beat Garcia. He couldn't hit Paulie consistently and he picked his shots well before throwing. Danny didn't really have to worry about Paulie knocking him out, but he never walked him down like Porter did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny Garcia looked like a middle of the pack fighter at 147. He really needs another fight against a tougher opponent than Paulie Malignaggi. I'd like to see Danny fight Adrien Broner. The fight makes all the sense in the world. Both men moved up from 140. Both men won fights over Paulie Malignaggi. Most importantly they both needed it. Broner is headed down and most boxing fans think he's a joke. Danny is a fighter on the way up, and based on the fight against Malignaggi he needs another fight to see where he's at. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is or at least should be Paulie's last fight. The people around him have probably already told him it's not there anymore, champ. Paulie didn't need them to tell him. I listen to him analyze other fighters and he's known for a while that he isn't what he once was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The qualities that made Paulie a great fighter, his hand and foot speed, are some of the first things that diminish with age. Paulie isn't going to wow you anymore, but he can still win the right kind of fight. When he almost got killed by Porter, it was clearly the wrong fight. Porter was just too strong for him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Paulie fought Zab Judah he got the win. That was another older fighter with diminished skills, and he was able to out box him. I thought he fought a great fight with Adrien Broner, and he probably should have won that one too. There were chances in that fight for him to take over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny Garcia might be just the kind of opponent Paulie needs. Danny will try to out box his opponent. He likes to find the right distances and fire away from the outside. He moves just enough to set up the distances and angles he like to fight with. He doesn't really move forward unless he's shown he can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there is one thing that gives Paulie a shot it's the fact that his boxing IQ hasn't diminished. He's still got a few moves left in his old legs, but most importantly I think he can box with Garcia. If Danny is looking for the KO, and I believe he will be, it gives Paulie the chance to walk him right into traps. Paulie will keep him moving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paulie is a tested welterweight. Danny had trouble with Lamont Peterson at 143. I believe Danny was having trouble making 140, but can he really compete at 147 the same way he did at 140? I don't believe he can. If not for a couple of bad decisions there'd already be two losses on his record. His power won't be anything that Paulie hasn't taken before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danny will work early behind his jab. He'll want to find out if he can drop the hammer on Paulie. He won't find him easy to hit. Paulie can move and won't be a target. Danny will have to move in on him. He'd rather Paulie came after him, but Paulie will be moving and setting the traps he hopes to catch Danny with. I think Danny will be content boxing Paulie from the outside. It would be better for Danny if he pressured him a little. I just don't think he will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paulie doesn't fare to well with fighters who have real power. Danny Garcia has never proved that he has real knockout power. Paulie will be looking to set him up and outscore him. Paulie can be a sneaky fighter that racks up points. You can bet he's going to pull out every trick in the bag. Somewhere around the middle rounds Danny is going to realize that the veteran is taking him down through there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the fight is close Danny might turn up the pressure a little. He won't necessarily move in any more than he had been, but he will throw more punches from the outside. He'll try to improve his angles. His output after round six or seven will increase and he might even get the next two or three rounds. Paulie will find more opportunities to counter and trap Garcia. If it's close in the championship rounds 10-12 Paulie will fight like this is the last fight of his career, and as stated before it probably is. The scorecards will be close after 12 rounds of boxing. </span></div>
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Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-2399428385944920682015-07-12T09:59:00.000-07:002015-07-12T10:35:55.854-07:00Keith Thurman Wins Again: Mayweather Should Be Next<span style="font-size: large;">One Time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are those who still don't believe that Thurman is deserving of a shot at Mayweather. Most of these people have been listening to Floyd as he says that, Thurman should fight Errol Spence. It's clear that Mayweather doesn't want to fight him and is putting him off on someone else. It became real clear when he threw his next possible opponents out there, Karim Mayfield and Andre Berto. He knows that we don't want to see him fight either name he tossed around, and unless he loaded the card up he couldn't sell it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mayweather has one fight left on his Showwtime contract. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why is he not considering one of these fighters? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Keith Thurman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Kell Brook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Shawn Porter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's five fighters right there that deserve a shot and that could be sold to the boxing public. There's not going to be a match up that brings Mayweather-Pacquiao money, but we are fans and don't make money from the fight. We want to see the best fight the best regardless of what's made financially.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If he doesn't want to take a chance with one of the five fighters listed above, then what about one of these guys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's a total of seven fighters that Floyd could fight, and an argument could be made for all of them. Some have stronger cases than others, but in my opinion they could all hold their own and put up a good fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keith Thurman is the next man up at 147. I know the Mayweather fans will go with whatever Floyd says. If Floyd wants to face Andre Berto next they're OK with that. Boxing fans deserve more than the brainwashed Mayweather fans will accept whatever King Mayweather says. There are only two fighters that I believe have a legit shot at defeating Floyd, and they are Thurman and Brook. One or the other deserves a shot and you could make a case for either that I couldn't argue with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would like to see Thurman get the next shot at Floyd. In terms of style I think he cuts the ring off like a fighter must do to beat Floyd. Thurman can be a pressure fighter and a counter puncher. There are some weaker areas that Thurman needs to work on. He'd get that work by not fighting Mayweather next, but he's in the spot of next man up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know that Thurman doesn't currently have the hand speed needed to out point Floyd. Amir Khan might have the hand speed, but he doesn't have the power or chin to really test Floyd. Thurman is a better opponent than Khan, but Mayweather continuously throws his name out there for a possible opponent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thurman has been in the top contender spot for a while now. However, that seems to be ignored in the same way that Kell Brook is ignored. Thurman has been in the top contender spot for going on two years. The Thurman detractors keep saying he doesn't deserve the shot. Who is more deserving? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These fighters were all deserving of a shot, but Thurman is not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Juan Manual Marquez, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz, Robert Guerrero, and Marcos Maidana twice?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you telling me these guys were any more deserving than Keith Thurman. Mayweather has always looked for a hot young fighter that had holes he thought he could cash in on, or older over the hill fighters that no longer were the total package. A young strong fighter that cuts off the ring isn't what Floyd wants to face. Thurman doesn't have the hand speed to outbox Floyd, but he cuts the ring off and has fight changing power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Thurman fought Brook then there would be no question as to who the next opponent should be, but the Floyd followers would still accept someone else as the next opponent. The champion takes the next best fighter and proves to the world that he is champion. The Best Ever most definitely takes the next best fighter to prove their is no doubt as to where he stands. To pick and choose like Mayweather wants to do proves nothing. If you don't fight the top contenders that's what you're remembered for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like watching Floyd Mayweather fight. As a boxing fan I want to know how good he really is and want the future fans to know that too. He proved against Canelo that he would face the best fighters, but he hasn't consistently done that. There have been some real good fighters in the past few years that he hasn't put in their place. Now those fighters are calling him out.</span><br />
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Thurman is not ducking Errol Spence and real boxing fans know that.<br />
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There are only two fighters at 147 that could beat Floyd Mayweather<br />
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<a class="algo-title " href="http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Keith-Thurman-Stops-Luis-Collazo-Calls-Out-Floyd-Mayweather-88967" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keith Thurman</kw><span style="color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 20px;"> Stops Luis Collazo; Calls Out </span></span><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Floyd Mayweather</kw></a><br />
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<a class="algo-title " href="http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/382213-keith-thurman-sees-no-threat-in-floyd-mayweather-jr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><kw style="font-weight: bold;">Keith Thurman</kw> sees no threat in <kw style="font-weight: bold;">Floyd Mayweather</kw> Jr. - Ring TV</a><br />
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<a class="algo-title " href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/keith-thurman-defends-title--calls-out-floyd-mayweather-032750592.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keith Thurman</kw><span style="color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 20px;"> defends title, calls out </span></span><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Floyd Mayweather</kw><span style="color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 20px;"> | Boxing </span></span><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...</kw></a><br />
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<a class="algo-title " href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/5/5/8550415/keith-thurman-i-want-mayweather-im-different-than-manny-pacquiao" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keith Thurman</kw><span style="color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 20px;">: I want </span></span><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mayweather</kw><span style="color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 20px;">, I'm different than Manny </span></span><kw style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...</kw></a><br />
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<a class="algo-title " href="http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/keith-thurman-beats-bloodied-luis-collazo-calls-floyd/story?id=32390105" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3300b5; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><kw style="font-weight: bold;">Keith Thurman</kw> beats bloodied Luis Collazo, calls out <kw style="font-weight: bold;">Floyd</kw> <kw style="font-weight: bold;">...</kw></a><br />
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<br />Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-83791559456497229402015-07-05T18:56:00.000-07:002015-07-05T18:56:20.695-07:00Boxing Never Died: The Undisputed Champion of Sports<b>Boxing Goes as the Heavyweight Division Goes</b><br />
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Throughout boxing history the heavyweights have been the attraction. The popularity has always been based on the heavyweight division. When there has been a lack of great heavyweights the sport suffered in popularity and viewership. There have been smaller weight class fighters that demanded to be seen, but the overall value of the sport drops drastically without the great heavyweight fighters. One dominate champion doesn't carry the division, and we've seen with Marciano and currently the Klitschko brothers. Tyson appeared to carry a heavyweight division that was down, but it wasn't as down as it appeared. The heavyweights of the 1980's were setting up what should have been a repeat of the 1960's. Some of the best fighters never lived up to their expectations.<br />
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The 90's got started with a blow when the PPV cash cow Mike Tyson went down in Tokyo. If he hadn't lost to Buster Douglas we'd have had Holyfield vs Tyson in their primes, although we know Mike wasn't training like he had been just a few years earlier. Tyson wasn't doomed when he lost to Douglas. It was when he separated himself from trainer Kevin Rooney. What if Tyson had continued to be the force he'd been. There was the fight with Holyfield. Then the list goes on and on. You had Bowe, Foreman, Morrison, Mercer, Grant, Tua, Moorer, Rahman and Lennox Lewis. The decade of the 90's could have been one of the best ever, but it never materialized and the public viewed the sport of boxing as going down.<br />
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The best fights never happened. Lennox Lewis went after and destroyed as many of the greats as he could get his hands on. He's without a doubt the best heavyweight of the 90's. To clean out the division in the 90's puts him high on the all time list. It took him into the next decade to finish them off but he did it. Lennox went down as the best fighter. History could have been different with all that boxing talent, but it didn't. Whether or not they were in their prime Lewis hunted them down. Lennox had every intention of cleaning out the division and he did.<br />
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There was a fighter that would have been among the greatest of all time if not for prison. No I'm not talking about Mike Tyson. I'm talking about Ike Ibeabuchi. I honestly feel like he could have dominated the sport in a way that few had done. He could have carried the sport solidly into the 2000's. When you talk about the best that never was Ike was #1. He was big and strong, be could take a hit, but he also had power that could kill a man. The 1990's should have been different and Ike should have been a part of that. <br />
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<b>When Did Boxing Die?</b><br />
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If the sport of boxing died there had to be a time of death. I don't think you can tell me when that was, because the truth is that it never happened.The great sport has taken some hits, but like its competitors it keeps coming back. Boxing never died and it never will.<br />
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The golden age of boxing is often referred to as the 1960's through the 1970's. During this time you had some serious talent in the sport. Journeyman fighters of that era could have been great champions in other eras. Boxing had seen rough stretches before that time and would see some after that. The bottom line is that the sport has always survived even when people weren't looking.<br />
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There are some who believe that boxing died the day that Mike Tyson went down. Ninety years before Tyson was dropped boxing was arguably the best sport in the world. At the beginning of the 1900's guys like Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey carried the sport. Those times gave way to one of the greatest champions of all time. The Brown Bomber Joe Louis. Boxing was set for years behind Joe Louis and I think the people of that time appreciated the greatness he provided. Joe set a standard of what greatness looked like. The fighters in the future would continue to shoot for that level of greatness, and there were few that found it. Joe Louis is arguably the best heavyweight in the history of boxing.<br />
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The great fighters that followed Joe Louis were not exactly what he'd been. Some considered that a down time in boxing. The sport wasn't down. The best fighters just weren't heavyweights. The heavyweight champion and one man wrecking crew was Rocky Marciano. He was a smaller fighter that knocked his opponents out. He finished his career unbeaten, but most boxing experts agree that Rocky wouldn't have done as well in another time frame. He was a smaller heavyweight fighter that wouldn't have even be in the heavyweight division today. Joe Louis came out of retirement to challenge Rocky, but his skills were too far gone and Rocky knocked him out in the 8th round. If Rocky had stayed a little longer or came out of retirement he could have challenged a better class of fighter than his career provided.<br />
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What is Rocky had stayed around to face Floyd Patterson or even Sonny Liston. It's my opinion that he'd have experienced what Joe Louis did at his hands. I believe both Patterson and Liston would have beat him. Rocky goes down as a great champion. History remembers him favorably. He fought the men in front of him and defeated them all. With a granite chin and a powerful right hand he was unstoppable.<br />
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Sonny and Floyd were the next big thing after Marciano. They carried the heavyweight division that was getting stronger. The 1950 were setting up what was going to be considered the Golden Age of boxing. Both of those men would be defeated by the next big thing, Cassius Clay. The self proclaimed greatest lived up to his mouth, which had been nicknamed the Louisville Lip. He told anyone that would listen how he was going to be the greatest of all time, and he lived up to his words. He'd go down in history with Joe Louis as the best ever.<br />
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The greatest champions have to be fortunate to have other greats to challenge them. The fighters in the late 1960's on through the late 1970's had that. If you were a great heavyweight it was Muhammad Ali you were compared to. Formerly known as Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali became the fighter to beat in the heavyweight division. In the end he'd stay too long, but he took on all comers from day one and established himself as the best heavyweight champion ever. Most boxing experts have Muhammad Ali or Joe Louis number one all time.<br />
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Muhammad Ali could have gone on to dominate the division, but his refusal to be drafted into the Vietnam War got him put out of boxing. During that time the emergence of Smokin' Joe Frazier took place. Eventually Ali would be reinstated and he and Frazier would meet in the Super Fight. Joe would beat him in that fight, but when he hit Ali with that "Left Hook From Hell" he got up off the canvas. They'd fight two more times with Ali taking the victory in both bouts. Ali didn't win the first fight, but he took the best out of three. Those three fights were classics and clearly goes down as the best rivalry ever.<br />
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Both Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier found levels of greatness, but soon both of them would be faced with Big George Foreman. In the 1968 Olympics George Foreman brought home the gold. His style couldn't be considered point friendly, but his power was something legends are built on. Big George had a amateur record of 22-4. Once he turned turned professional he assaulted the competition. He threw a lot of punches and they packed tremendous amounts of power. George Foreman did enough in the first of a two part career to go into the hall of fame. He beat Gregorio Peralta twice. Once by decision and then by tenth round KO. He also knocked out a hall of fame fighter in George Chuvalo. This all led him to the undisputed heavyweight champion Joe Frazier.<br />
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Joe Frazier had never been beat and his win over Muhammad Ali was still fresh on people's minds. Frazier entered the fight with a 29-0 (25 KO) and Big George had a unbeaten record of 37-0 (34-KO), and the fight promised to be a good one. Big George knocked Joe Frazier down six times in two rounds. Frazier got to his feet all six times but the fight was stopped when Joe was clearly finished. Big George had destroyed him. If he could do that to Frazier then he could do it to anybody. Boxing fans didn't see any way that Foreman could lose. He would defend the belt two successful times with the second being against Ken Norton who'd given Ali his second loss. The win over Norton set up a fight with Muhammad Ali.<br />
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Nobody could have possibly given Muhammad Ali a chance of victory. Big George had destroyed some fighters that Ali had beaten. He blasted them out of there in a way the Ali hadn't done. If Frazier was so easily beaten then nobody stood a snowball's chance in hell of beating Foreman. Ali believed differently. He told everyone that would listen that he would beat Big George and that he didn't stand a chance.<br />
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Early in the fight Muhammad Ali boxed and moved a little, but for the next seven rounds he stayed on the ropes and let Big George pound on him like a heavy bag. It would become known as the rope-a-dope. When he saw that George had worn himself out he went in for the kill and knocked out George Foreman in the 8th round. Ali had improved his record to 45-2 and was recognized as the Greatest of All Time. Muhammad Ali had talked the talk, and he walked the walk. The boxing writers and historians agreed that Ali must have be best.<br />
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Big George never got over the loss to Muhammad Ali. He fought an all out war and fight of the year with Ron Lyle, and then he beat Joe Frazier in a rematch. He appeared to be back to his old form winning five in a row following the loss to Ali, but then Jimmy Young beat him by decision. George left the ring in 1977 and didn't come back for an entire decade.<br />
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Muhammad Ali continued to win the next ten fights following the fight with Foreman. That 10 fight defense of the title included wins over, Chuck Wepner, Ron Lyle, Joe Bugner, Joe Frazier, Jimmy Young, Ken Norton and tough as hell Ernie Shavers. Ali was then upset by Leon Spinx. Ali rematched him a regained the championship.<br />
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Muhammad Ali stayed around too long. That win over Spinx should have been the end, although many of his handlers said it should have been sooner than the Spinx rematch. Ali took on legend to be, Larry Holmes and was completely dominated. He then lost to an eventual champion in Trevor Berbick, but Berbick was never more than a journeyman that won the belt.<br />
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The end of Muhammad Ali was the end of something great. It was somewhat of a down time in the sport of boxing. You still had some quality fighters, but they were not great fighters. Larry Holmes stood alone as the best fighter of the early 1980's. He'd come up one fight short of Marciano's 49-0 record. After that he made a statement that killed Holmes in the eyes of the boxing public. "Rocky couldn't hold my jockstrap."<br />
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Larry Holmes hadn't been able to capture the interest of the boxing public, but the up and coming Iron Mike Tyson would. While Holmes was on his long defense of the title, Tyson was knocking out a long list of journeyman fighters. Mike wasn't beating all world talent, but he was blowing the guys out in a way the shocked the boxing public. He was suppose to beat the guys he was knocking out, but he made them look incredibly inferior.<br />
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Trevor Berbick had won the heavyweight title from Pinklon Thomas in a unanimous 12 round decision. His first defense of the title was against Mike Tyson. Berbick had been on a winning streak that included wins over David Bey and Mich Green, and champion Thomas. Mike Tyson knew what he'd done five years earlier to Ali, and later admitted that he wanted to pay him back for beating the G.O.A.T.<br />
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Mike Tyson was everything the boxing public wanted to see. When they sat down to watch Tyson fight you'd better be there when the opening bell rang. He didn't plan on keeping the fight fans too long as he often beat his opponents quickly and brutally. His combination of power and speed was like nothing the sport had ever seen. His two hundred and twenty pound body was on a five-eleven frame and he was like a wrecking ball.<br />
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Tyson took the WBC belt away from Berbick, and then he went after the WBA belt held by James Smith. That gave him two of the three major belts. He defended against Pinklon Thomas and then he went after the unified heavyweight championship and Tony Tucker's IBF world title. Tyson beat Tucker in a 12 round decision to unify the championship belts. Tyson defended all three belts against Tyrell Biggs. He knocked him out in the 7th round to retain his belts.<br />
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The unification brought Larry Holmes out of retirement. Larry Holmes had been a great champion, but he'd been away from the game. Tyson remembered the beating he'd put on Muhammad Ali, and just as he wanted revenge like he'd gotten against Berbick. Mike Tyson poured it on Holmes and in the fourth round he knocked him out. From 1987 until 1990 Mike defended the unified heavyweight championship. Mike returned to the Tokyo Dome. His last trip there was a 2nd round KO of Tony Tubbs.<br />
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His return to Tokyo was suppose to be the easy contest he'd encountered there before. Journeyman Buster Douglas had other things in mind. Mike's next fight was to be with undefeated Holyfield, but he overlooked a hungry and determined fighter in Buster Douglas. Buster had just lost his mother and dedicated the fight to his late mother. That was the determination it would take to defeat Mike Tyson. When Mike couldn't blast him out early it frustrated the great champion. Once he realized he could take Mike's best the fight took a turn.<br />
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James Buster Douglas knocked Mike Tyson out. The fighter that had brought in the money and had created Pay-Per-View was knocked out on the floor. The most dangerous man on the planet was no longer viewed as invincible. Without his cape Superman is just a man. Buster didn't only prove that Mike wasn't unbeatable; he also proved that Mike could be beat by the same kind of journeyman fighters he'd been beating.<br />
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Evander Holyfield was the next man up and would have been Mike Tyson's next opponent. Instead he got Buster Douglas who ended up being an easy path to the championship belts. Buster had won the belts on 2-11- 1990 and lost them to Holyfield on 10-25-1990. Evander Holyfield would defend against three worthy and tough opponents. First he took on Bert Cooper who he TKO'd in the 7th round. Followed by decision wins over Big George Foreman and Larry Holmes. It appeared he beat a journeyman in Cooper and two over the hill fighters in Foreman and Holmes. That was not the case though. Cooper was tough as hell and hit hard. Foreman had resurrected a career that had had a decade of inactivity. Holmes was no spring chicken, but had competitive fight after the Holyfield fight.<br />
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Riddick Bowe would beat Holyfield for the undisputed championship. Bowe ma have beat Holyfield for the belts, but he wasn't the champion that Holyfield had been. The fans still hadn't seen anything like Mike Tyson. The Holyfield-Bowe match up would go on to be a trilogy. Bowe won two out of three, but his career fell short of the greatness Evander would experience. Bowe refused to fight Lennox Lewis and then entered the Marine Corps before eating himself out of boxing. He ruined his own promising career, and he did it so much more differently than all the others that had done the same. Bowe could have been one of the best ever. He just didn't have the mental constitution to use his size and gifts.<br />
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These two men capitalized the most from the 90's. They fought each other twice and the first fight was a draw, but most people believe that Holyfield won. Lennox clearly beat him in the second fight. From there it could have been over for Holyfield. His career would have been complete, but he went 1-1-1 against John Ruiz in another trilogy. That should have been the end of Evander Holyfield. When you cannot get the best of John Ruiz in a best of three it's all over. Holyfield didn't see it that way. He continued to fight. He beat Hasim Rahman, and then lost three in a row to Chris Byrd, James Toney, and unknown Larry Donald. He stayed too long, but hadn't made a complete mess of his legacy. He didn't retire after losing three in a row. That was 2004 and he would quit until 2011 when he defeated Brian Nielson. Evander retired with a record of 44-10-2.<br />
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Lennox Lewis owned the late 90's and early 2000's. He defeated everyone he fought, and when he didn't beat them the first time he defeated them in a rematch. Holyfield a draw and Rahman a knockout in the first fights. He came back and beat Evander by UD, and then he knocked Rahman out. Lennox went through the best fighters the division had to offer. Riddick Bowe had refused to fight him and never did, but you name another great champion and Lennox defeated them. His domination of the division should have him in anyone's top 5. Starting in the early 90's he went looking for the best and never ducked anyone. He beat the journeyman that every great heavyweight went through late 80's and early 90's. In 1991 he beat British Champion Gary Mason 35-0 by knockout in the seventh round. He went through Mike Weaver and Tyrell Biggs.Tyson had fought these same fighters and there were more common opponents. Lewis beat Ruddock, Tucker, and Bruno. He was upset by Oliver McCall, but would later make him quit and start crying in the ring. He beat Ray Mercer and Tommy Morrison. Andrew Golota, Shannon Briggs, Evander Holyfield, Michael Grant, David Tua, Hasim Rahman,and Mike Tyson, all fell victim to The Lion.<br />
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Lennox Lewis ended his career against Vatali Klitschko in 2003. Klitschko might have been ahead on the score cards. Many feel his was but I had it closer to even. Both fighters had taken some brutal shots, but Lennox cut Vitali's face and the fight ended with a 6th round stoppage.<br />
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The brothers started dominating in the early 2000's after Lennox Lewis retired. The Klitschkos have dominated the sport, but their get-the-job-done style isn't fan friendly. Boxing didn't die with these two guys. They just dominated the division like nobody had. The supporting cast of fighters were missing but they cleaned up everything that was there. The only fighters they didn't beat were the ones that wouldn't fight them. They didn't have greats like Holmes, Tyson, Bowe, or any elite heavyweights. The brothers could only fight what was available, and they did whether it was action packed or not.<br />
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There had been some promising heavyweight contenders to challenge the brothers, Chris Byrd, Corrie Sanders, Samual Peter, Chris Arreola, Shannon Briggs, Tomasz Adamek, Dereck Chisora. They were all beaten by Vitaly. Wladimir found the most success. He beat Chris Byrd, Ray Mercer, Jameel McCline, Corrie Sanders, Lamon Brewster, Sam Peter, Calvin Brock, Ray Austin, Sultan Ibragimov, Hasim Rahman, Eddie Chambers, David Haye, and recently Bryant Jennings.<br />
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The Klistchko brothers have dominate a weak heavyweight division, but we've given other fighters the benefit of the doubt when the division was weak. Remember Rocky Marciano or Mike Tyson? You can only fight what's there and the Klitschkos did that.<br />
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There have been ongoing talks between Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury. Undefeated knockout artist Deontay Wilder says he'll fight Wlad, but he wants another fight to tune up with first. Bryant Jennings was a hopeful in the heavyweight division, but it's not clear how he'll bounce back from the decision loss to Wladimir. Bermaine Stiverene will bounce back from his decision loss to Wilder.<br />
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Since Lennox Lewis retired in 2003 the Klitchkos took over the heavyweight division. Wladimir still holds claim on it today. The best boxing hasn't been in the heavyweight division. The welterweight division has been where the most talent has been since the 2000's began. Floyd Mayweather has gone undefeated an made more money than both Klitschkos combined. Mayweather has found ways to make money despite not being in the heavyweight division. The best money and most popular fighters have always been heavyweights. History had shown that the best boxing matches aren't always the heavyweights though.<br />
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The Gatti-Ward Trilogy was some of the best boxing that a fan could ever hope for. They were both good but not great fighters, but when they hooked up the result was something that legend is made of. The two of them went to war.<br />
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With the heavyweight division trying to make a comeback. The focus never shifted to the welterweights or the super lightweights that were both loaded divisions. The middleweight division was strong and the light heavyweights were too. There were good fights in just about every division. The heavyweights were undecided with the departure of Lennox Lewis, and some fans didn't hang around to see where it would go from there.<br />
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Oscar De La Hoya fought Mayweather and Pacquiao, and then the showdown between Mayweather and Pacquiao came into sight. Some boxing fans started to make a comeback. The Manny Pacquiao groups and the Floyd Mayweather groups started to form and there was some real interest in boxing.<br />
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The mega fight took too long to happen, but it kept the fringe boxing fan hanging on. The fight didn't live up to the hype, but I think some of the fans that came back have stayed. The real boxing fans know it's not all about the heavyweights, and now the fringe fans know it too.<br />
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The heavyweights are the most interesting when the talent is there, but when it hasn't been throughout history the smaller fighters filled the seats. In the early 1980's when Larry Holmes was the only thing going the welterweight division was thriving and getting stronger. It demanded attention during Mike Tyson's run, but Hearns, Hagler, Leonard, and other non heavyweights were not captivating the fans like Tyson did in the mid to late 80's.<br />
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There have always been great non heavyweight fighters, from Ray Robinson and Willie Pep to Roberto Duran. The 90's were a strong time in the heavyweight division, but Roy Jones Jr often stole the spotlight. The fight between Roy Jones Jr and James Toney at middleweight was an all time classic.<br />
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Boxing has not survived on the heavyweights alone. Most experts consider Sugar Ray Robinson the best pure boxer that the sport has ever seen. Some of the most interesting fights, like Gatti and Ward weren't heavyweights. The richest boxer in the sports history Floyd Mayweather wasn't a heavyweight. The overall popularity of the sport does seem to hang on the success of the heavyweights.<br />
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The fans are coming back. Boxing is back on regular broadcast television and more cable channels are picking up fights. Somewhere along the way the MMA fans realized it was alright to like boxing too. You don't have to pick between the two sports you can watch and enjoy both. Sure they'll like one more than the other, but boxing is the part of MMA fighting that the fans like most - the hand to hand striking. There's a better grade of athlete entering boxing today.<br />
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If boxing did away with pay-per-view fights and structured the rankings were the best had to fight the best, then the sport would rebound in popularity to heights it had never seen. The fighters are there and the competition is constantly getting better. The trainers are turning out good fighter after good fighter. Boxing has to find a way to make the best fights and abandon the pay-per-view concept. Most of all people just want to see the best fight the best.<br />
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Tiger Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672813758177218220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562025041727198237.post-67612210234952157432015-06-28T15:11:00.001-07:002015-06-28T15:11:14.341-07:00Legendary Fights: Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman<div>
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I remember watching this fight as a teenager. There is one thing about this fight that I've never forgotten. The amount of punishment that these two men inflicted on each other was like something from a Rocky movie. Holyfield later said, "It felt like I was being hit by railroad ties." The fight went the 12 round distance and incredibly neither man ever went down. Even as a youngster I knew I was watching greatness. It was everything you could hope for when watching a fight for the heavyweight title. </div>
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Foreman was considerably slower than Holyfield, but when Big George hit him the effects were undeniable. The two men continued round after round to rock each other. Normal fighters would have gone down, but these two guys and this fight, was far from normal. Fights such as this one can take years off of a fighter's career. Both Foreman and Holyfield would go on to rewrite the record books. </div>
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This was Holyfield's first defense of the heavyweight championship. Holyfield had taken Mike Tyson's belts away from Buster Douglas. Holyfield didn't have to take on Big George, but I think he wanted to take on a big heavyweight to prove all doubters wrong. Holyfield had moved up to heavyweight and he was legit. Michael Dokes had hit him with some hard shots in their fight, but it was nothing compared to the punches he'd take against Foreman. There were some good possible heavyweight matches that weren't being made. Holyfield wanted to be a great champion that took on all comers. He always fought the next man up and took on the toughest opponents. Most fighters would not have taken Big George as their first title defense, but Evander did and gave us one of the best fights in boxing history </div>
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Big George was never going to get his title shot as long as Mike Tyson was champion. Tyson was not going to fight Foreman. His handlers had been told upon George's comeback not to fight him. It was a horrible match up for Tyson. It wasn't just Mike Tyson. Big George had trouble getting guys to fight him. At one point a decade earlier George was thought to be unbeatable. He'd find out against Muhammad Ali that he was invincible. That did something to him at that point in his career, but it made him what he'd become in the second part. Holyfield was giving him what he wanted. He had another shot to become heavyweight champion again. George had beaten everyone he'd faced, and that list of names wasn't all-world-beaters. None of them were on the same level with undefeated Evander Holyfield. Finally Foreman had a quality opponent in front of him. That made for one helluva fight. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It appears that Floyd will be fighting either Andre Berto or Karim Mayfield in the main event. Floyd has two guys in Thurman and Porter that want to fight him. Yet he wants them to fight on his September card. The card would be a great one, but the best card would be him fighting Thurman or Porter in the main event. Both men have earned a shot and so has undefeated Kell Brook, but that fight is not going to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no doubt that Floyd will get it his way, or so close it will be considered his way. He has won every fight he's been in and has punched his own ticket. He can fight whoever he wants, and if it's a loaded card and people buy it he can brag about how he sold a fight against Andre Berto or Karim Mayfield. History won't necessarily point out that the viewers wanted to see the under card fights. Mayweather fights, who he wants, when he wants, and how he wants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know Floyd fans will be happy with whoever he fights. Boxing fans in general want more. The people who've paid for his fights deserve to see him fight someone who can at least challenge him. I truly believe that both Shawn Porter and Keith Thurman could both give him a fight that fans could appreciate. There is no reason to fight the two irrelevant fighters that Floyd has his sights on. He needs to fulfill the Showtime contract with a bang. </span><br />
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