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pound per pound wrote:Tell Haye Wlad injured his toe the day before.

The truth is Wlad looks very confident and the loss to Fury has refueled his passion for the sport.

whenever david haye is the source you'd
better take it with tons of salt. especially
when the "it" is about wladimir klitschko.

"DAVID HAYE has been told..."

I only needed to read that far. David Haye, a totally unreliable, to put it mildly, source, was told by an anonymous third party...whose brother's friend's cousin told him...

I can't even watch that thing - ultra close up of some guy's nose!? What was it about?

littlepug wrote: I know it was awful wasn't it ? speaking of newbies a lad at work and his mrs got up in the middle of the night to watch May v Pac when it was on even though neither of them had ever seen a boxing match before, goes without saying that they didn't enjoy it !

Ah, Fury-Wlad, May-Pac. Two of the worst big fights boxing has ever seen. If boxing were an actual sport, it wouldn't have survived those travesties.

Blodhemn wrote:

littlepug wrote: I know it was awful wasn't it ? speaking of newbies a lad at work and his mrs got up in the middle of the night to watch May v Pac when it was on even though neither of them had ever seen a boxing match before, goes without saying that they didn't enjoy it !

Ah, Fury-Wlad, May-Pac. Two of the worst big fights boxing has ever seen. If boxing were an actual sport, it wouldn't have survived those travesties.

That makes no sense, fake sports are the only way you get consistantly good match ups like WWE, all real sports have terrible matches.

What kind of hand sign is Wlad making?

x2x wrote:What kind of hand sign is Wlad making?

Hang loose..

x2x wrote:What kind of hand sign is Wlad making?

Hang loose (Shaka) sign.. common greeting sign in Hawaii

BitPlayer wrote:That makes no sense, fake sports are the only way you get consistantly good match ups like WWE, all real sports have terrible matches.

Boxing is somewhere in between. Most challengers don't earn their shots at titles, it's just given to them for varying reasons. Boxing is a money making scheme, first and foremost. Actual competition ranks lower in importance. And the point was that no matter how dire the hyped up "super bowl" fights turn out to be, the money making aspect will always keep boxing alive. Instead of normal sports where competition propels it, boxing has managers that do the steering. Boxing is much more like showbiz than sport.

Blodhemn wrote:

BitPlayer wrote:That makes no sense, fake sports are the only way you get consistantly good match ups like WWE, all real sports have terrible matches.

Boxing is somewhere in between. Most challengers don't earn their shots at titles, it's just given to them for varying reasons. Boxing is a money making scheme, first and foremost. Actual competition ranks lower in importance. And the point was that no matter how dire the hyped up "super bowl" fights turn out to be, the money making aspect will always keep boxing alive. Instead of normal sports where competition propels it, boxing has managers that do the steering. Boxing is much more like showbiz than sport.

Good post. Boxing is getting closer and closer to Vince McMahon's "sports entertainment" all the time, except wrestling is much less corrupt and much more honest about what it's doing.

BitPlayer wrote:

Blodhemn wrote:

littlepug wrote: I know it was awful wasn't it ? speaking of newbies a lad at work and his mrs got up in the middle of the night to watch May v Pac when it was on even though neither of them had ever seen a boxing match before, goes without saying that they didn't enjoy it !

Ah, Fury-Wlad, May-Pac. Two of the worst big fights boxing has ever seen. If boxing were an actual sport, it wouldn't have survived those travesties.

That makes no sense, fake sports are the only way you get consistantly good match ups like WWE, all real sports have terrible matches.

Many sports have great match-ups resulting in great matches.. Tennis for example.. They're no weight divisions and many more players world wide.. The top pro players are seeded based on their wins and losses to other top players and they have to beat the best to win the top tournaments.. Some matches are excellent.. and of course the top players play each other many times.

In Golf the top players in the world all get to play -- and they all know what the leader board says every step of the way and exactly what they need to do to win, and have faced each other many times.. I enjoy playing golf because it leads to some great conversations about whatever, but how anyone can watch golf is beyond me.. If Boxing had good match-ups and the rules were enforced consistently, and the best were consistently pitted against the best -- it would be the best spectator sport ever..

But in Boxing you have situations like 2 ATG Heavyweight Champion of almost the same age -- both having careers that stretch over 30 calendar years -- both fighting as Heavyweights their whole careers -- and never fighting each other...as in the case of Larry Holmes and George Foreman.. The problem that's always been true about Boxing is that boxers are matched to get them wins -- and not matched to make the most competitive and interesting fights.