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BarryWashington wrote:

bjermaine wrote:yes, he's a popular brit fighter. i guarantee he'll get in.

Since when did popularity become the sole factor for an induction into the Hall of Fame?

Kostya Tszyu doesn't deserve to be inducted and neither does Ricky Hatton.

BarryWashington wrote:

bjermaine wrote:

BarryWashington wrote: Since when did popularity become the sole factor for an induction into the Hall of Fame?

Kostya Tszyu doesn't deserve to be inducted and neither does Ricky Hatton.

i agree with you but if you look at mcguigan, he got in on his popularity. his resume is really bad for the hall. i bet you can list at least 50 active fighters with a better resume than mcguigan but obviously not all of them will get in the hall.

I hate that McGuigan gets mentioned every time another fighter that has a weak resume is a possible HOF candidate. Like others have said - just because they made one mistake doesn't mean it should be repeated.

BarryWashington wrote:

J wrote:each to their own Barry.

fighters with far less impressive resumes have made it in.

Jeff fenech Brian Mitchell, Barry Mcguigan, even Ken Norton off the top of my head.

I hate to be a dick, but, it's to each HIS/HER own.

Secondly, like I said earlier I don't care if mistakes have been made in the past. That doesn't mean we should continue to repeat them.

Norton is questionable for his induction. However, he beat Ali in their first fight and a lot of people [on this forum] feel he should have won their third fight. Norton also beat Quarry, Bobick, Young, and BARELY lost to a peak Holmes. I'm not sure if it's HOF worthy, but; it's impressive.

I haven't studied the 80's/90's Featherweight scene thoroughly enough to commit on Mitchell. Though I am baffled as to why McGuigan was inducted into the Hall.


Fenech doesn't have an incredible resume, however; I would say it's an impressive one.

I don't want to hear that because fighters that didn't deserve to be inducted did get inducted that Boxing should lower their standards forever.

J wrote:each to their own Barry.

fighters with far less impressive resumes have made it in.

Jeff fenech Brian Mitchell, Barry Mcguigan, even Ken Norton off the top of my head.

BarryWashington wrote:

J wrote:each to their own Barry.

fighters with far less impressive resumes have made it in.

Jeff fenech Brian Mitchell, Barry Mcguigan, even Ken Norton off the top of my head.

I hate to be a dick, but, it's to each HIS/HER own.

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Livingstone Cole wrote:

BarryWashington wrote:

J wrote:each to their own Barry.

fighters with far less impressive resumes have made it in.

Jeff fenech Brian Mitchell, Barry Mcguigan, even Ken Norton off the top of my head.

I hate to be a dick, but, it's to each HIS/HER own.

Barry, you ARE being a dick!

Each to their own is how we use the phrase in England, the HIS/HER variant is American. Don't correct an Englishman on his English!

BarryWashington wrote:

J wrote:good hope its painful.

What I love is how you only pin-pointed one section of my post and then went on this diatribe about how this forum is subpar to your desires. The BOTP section of the BoxRec forum is a great place. So, even if you think I'm a dick, that my friend, would be inductive reasoning. No need to get your "knickers in a twist" because I thought I was making a grammatical correction (when apparently I wasn't right - go me). That part had nothing to do with trying to "make you look wrong". There's no reason to bicker over little things like that. Especially since we're all strangers that most likely will never meet each other (for the most part). I love all y'all that frequent the BOTP section, even if we disagree, we still family. Anyway, I decided I'm not going to kill myself, because it turns out my girlfriend isn't too fond of that idea. Shame, right? Anyway, I don't see why Hatton should be inducted into the Hall. Sure, he had his moments in the sun, but; not A) long enough to be Hall worthy and B) not dominant enough wins - for me - to be look at as a possible inductee.