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Boxing is a barbarous spectacle. I won't even honor by calling is a sport. I'm with Howard Cosel, it's disgusting and inhumane.
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The day you can knock Leonard down, even now, then you can say "Don't cut it".
SHEESH! What a snob.
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Ol' Howard the Mouth had no problem with it when he was making money off of it. It's an olympic sport, and references go back at least to Homer, so it's a sport.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Boxing is a barbarous spectacle. I won't even honor by calling is a sport. I'm with Howard Cosel, it's disgusting and inhumane.
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Homer was a barbarian.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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There's not a lot I can say about the old boys as I've seen next to nothing of their fights. Of the one I have seen, the following are my picks.
Marvin Hagler
Tommy Hearns
Wilfred Benitez
Sugar Ray Leonard
Best fights I've seen were Watson v Eubanks and Benn v McClelland. It's just unfortunate that those two bouts both ended with a man crippled.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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Olympic gold 1988 in middle weight or whatever you call it? GDR? Henry Maske anyone?
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OK I suppose you are into the fat guys... Schmeling! 
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Amateur boxing still has some dignity. But the professionals are going down the tubes fast - it's starting to look like something this side of pro wrestling.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Boxing is a barbarous spectacle. I won't even honor by calling is a sport. I'm with Howard Cosel, it's disgusting and inhumane.
There's some great up-and-coming boxers coming out of the Kronk gym, and I hope they breathe new life into pro boxing soon."Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.Comment
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Marciano beat nobody except old fighters and pumped up light heavyweights, IMO he looses to (at least!), Ali, Liston, Foreman, Lewis, Holmes, Tyson, (a prime) Louis and probally FrazierOriginally posted by monkspider
Rocky Marciano is the best, IMO, followed by Louis and Dempsey.
Top 5 P4P
1 Robinson
2 Ali
=3 Duran
=3 Leonard
5 Hagler
Yep, I'm biased towards the 80's 'fab four' but thats what I grew up watchingComment
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Yes and no, since it's not just a couple o' sides of beef pounding the bejeezuz outta each other. On the other hand, taking shots to the head over a period of time just isn't good for your brain, even with head protection. Your brain still bounces around inside your skull.Originally posted by Jac de Molay
Amateur boxing still has some dignity.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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