granberry wrote:MatthewS wrote:granberry wrote:
Do you think anyone is "converted" by incompetence presented by clueless amateurs completely unfamiliar with a subject?
Nope. Here's something I DO think - someone is taking all this far too seriously.
No surprise there.
Amateurs and incompetents who have nevered mastered any subject would use that as a lame defense for their amateurishness and incompetence.
Gracious as ever. When's the book coming out mate? I assume a talent as great as yourself has other irons in the fire besides subverting our banter into something approaching pseudo-intellectual rigour?[/quote]
Mathews,
You have Ken Burns, Thomas Hauser, Bert Sugar and Norman Mailer.
What more could you possibly need?
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Read none of them mate... I prefer to actually watch the fights, rather than read about them. I come here for the sparkling conversation. I don't know why you don't be a bit nicer - it must take more time to be insulting than to just put your point of view across.
Last book I read on boxing was The Big If, before that Don McRea's Dark Trade.[/quote]
Mathews,
With your dainty concern for etiquette,
I am sure you would do just fine if you found yourself in a boxing ring with an opponent trying to hurt you.
This delicate nature which you are so eager to display would you take far in a sport like boxing.
Maybe you could carry a parasol with you into the ring.[/quote]
me and boxing is a bit like me and your 'debates' with the other forum worthies... I'm a spectator and an armchair fan.
I've never claimed to contribute anything to these debates, nor have I ever claimed any boxing ability. So you can say what you want, but it does not really say anything new about me. I suppose if I ask nicely I can be treated to a diatribe on well-mannered boxers who were gentlemen in and out of the ring?