... compared to boxing ...
... all other forms of human competition ...
... shrink to insignificance ...
... (study boxing) ...
http://www.boxingarts.com/
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Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
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Re: Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
Please stop spamming your crappy link.
Re: Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
In London we have our famous black cabs, and to get licensed to operate one, you have to get character-checked to make sure you're a fine upstanding citizen, and you have to spend a couple of years unpaid at your own expense learning "The Knowledge" which involves riding around the vastness of Greater London on a sedate motor-scooter learning not just roads, big and small but landmarks, buildings, places of interest. Then when you've passed enough tests and they deem you ready, you take your final examination and if you pass you have acquired "The Knowledge" and you become a licensed accredited London cab driver entitled to charge exorbitant fees. I speak not from experience but I know it's a gruelling process.
Now in London after years of protecting the black cabbie from the unlicensed mini cabs, the authorities have given the green light to companies like "Uber" where basically any pudendum with a sat-nav can take you where you want to go for half the prIce.
Now I don't think too many people would argue that sat-nav is a bad thing, quite the contrary, and I love having you-tube and box-rec to provide instant knowledge, but as one who spent fifty years compiling what little I know of boxing from watching live shows, the occasional fight or show on terrestrial tv, and the written word, there are times (usually when I'm losing an argument to a spotty oik with a computer) I think I know what it must feel like to be an old-school black cab driver trying to stay relevant in the modern age.
Now in London after years of protecting the black cabbie from the unlicensed mini cabs, the authorities have given the green light to companies like "Uber" where basically any pudendum with a sat-nav can take you where you want to go for half the prIce.
Now I don't think too many people would argue that sat-nav is a bad thing, quite the contrary, and I love having you-tube and box-rec to provide instant knowledge, but as one who spent fifty years compiling what little I know of boxing from watching live shows, the occasional fight or show on terrestrial tv, and the written word, there are times (usually when I'm losing an argument to a spotty oik with a computer) I think I know what it must feel like to be an old-school black cab driver trying to stay relevant in the modern age.
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Re: Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
... never ...punchoutsb wrote:Please stop spamming your crappy link.
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Re: Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
But you did, so thank youSequitorian wrote:... never ...punchoutsb wrote:Please stop spamming your crappy link.
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Re: Why Boxrec is indispensable - Thomas Hauser
No one cares