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"Why should a man who risks his life not be smart enough to dictate to those that are profiting from his risks?" Because if he doesn't do what the boxing bosses want he won't get work...or worse. "of course, weasel Mayweather Jr. gets all of his decisions in writing, signed, and faxed to him...

Well,you won't get much argument from me about most of that, especially the "pound for pound" and the six champions (or whatever it is) - and throw in all the extraneous little guy weight classes too!* - but I do think that BoxRec is an amazing information resource, and I think that their...

I think that you're wrong about all that, Ambrose. I think that the boxing bosses basically couldn't care whether the boxers live or die, just that they "earn" for them, same as the Mafia. You see that over and over, and with the headliners as well as the fat city guys...like the way they...

Supposedly they have some kind of objective formula they use to rank the boxers. I'll tell you what's 100 opinion, the idiotic list of "best pound for pound" boxers they make, like that's some kind of official ranking. It's nothing but a list of some jerk's favorite boxers, almost always...

Only a very few of the top guys might be able to have some leverage, and even then I doubt if they could pick the judges and the referee. Most of them, though, are just chattel. They do as they are told or they don't work at all. They have no union, plus most of them aren't very educated or...

Yep. Like George Foreman said after they robbed Oquendo (yet again), fighters have to stop standing there meekly and accepting phony decisions from crooked judges. As for Mayweather, he always fights in Las Vegas, the crookedest city in the world, and not only brings his in house judges with...

Very good point, BoxSpec2, and well put. I was wondering where they got all those radical numbers in the Szpilka-Jennings fight when I still thought the fight was about even, as I wasn't seeing it.

I just got the impression that he was completely foiled by Jenning's defense. I agree with all the people who say that Szpilka is young and can still improve a lot.

The guy on the BoxRec forum - the sticky on top - explains it thusly: "Boxrec ratings do not work on ranks but on points. Jennings was #28 before the bout. All boxers between ranks 13 and 28 are very close, only some 100 points difference. So Jeggings could step up a lot of ranks by a...

"I dont know much about Aborigines as I've never met one..." They have deliberately dumbed down people on the vital subject of race. They teach them that all races on the planet are exactly the same except for insignificant differences in the tincture of the skin, and of course White men are...

Never mind. I got to 2:21 of this one and I had enough. I was right the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ropc0KvWFw If you want to listen to something good right now, if you like old music, me old pal Rich Conaty's Big Broadcast is on right now, straight from the Bronx...

Maybe I'll even join you guys, a little. At least the mobsters stick together - sort of - at least they do before they whack each other when they're not looking - or go into the Witness Protection Program -and at least they're not homos - except the ones that are -...

Thanks, but OK, mea culpa, I'll stop picking on you guys for enjoying a tv show. I can get a bit obnoxious... :biggrin:

You can see a lot of them right here think the Mafia - or at least the actors portraying Mafia - are pretty cool because they figure they hate n's so they must be cool. Well yeah they hate n's. Everybody with any common sense hates n's. Even high class n's hate n's. Jews hate n's too. They...

Australoids are a separate race, and very primitive, not nearly as violent as negroes, and oddly they seem to be closer related to us than negroes. Some of them are blond, and some Australoid-Europid hybrids can pass for white. The self righteous and hypocritical Australians that are so...

Boxrec had Szpilka rated #33 and Jennings 31. So how did they bump Jennings all the way up to #13 by beating a #33 guy?

I'm not really qualified to debate a tv show since I only saw a few minutes of it on Youtube - the Pine Barrens one - since that was the one they were talking about, and since I know the NJ Pine Barrens - but is this the result? - Someone asked my brother's little kid what he wants to be when...

Szpilka: "“He got me with the body shots. They were the things that hurt me and wore me down," said Szpilka. "I could feel his strength was much stronger than mine. I feel like I let everybody down. I thought I was ready for the big fights. I’m still young and I’ll be back.’’...

Vitali Klitschko turns down job offer, demands early presidential elections In an attempt to broker a deal to halt violent protests and political unrest in the country, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych met with...

Dwid - Ooops, you're right, I meant to say opium, not cocaine. Afghan poppy fields back in full production since the USSA liberated them. Was the Taliban getting into drugs too? If so, I didn't know about that. I'm under the impression that they pissed off the Washington "war against...

Since I don't watch tv, I turned on Youtube to see what Sopranos actually looked like. It just looked like actors acting to me, cursing a lot to simulate realism. "Goodfellas" was, I think, the most realistic depiction of the bums on film. This from a guy who has been involved with them...

Welcome to Police State USSA. George Orwell saw it coming - only it's worse. War is Peace.

Totally dissenting voice here. It's the jewish media romanticizing the Mafia criminal parasites - and why not, since the real "boss of bosses" was Jewish, Meyer Lansky who eventually fled to the gangster headquarters, Israel, to obtain sanctuary. Mussolini locked the Mafiosi up, put the bosses...

There's a very good reason not to go to the fights in person, namely you've got to sit through four hours of 125 pounders bouncing around the ring for a full ten rounds each. But then there's Murphy's Law, which means that if I switch the fights on even one minute late they'll put the main...

Boxing judges = cronyism and corruption, and even if they did get an honest and competent judge in there, he would be totally vulnerable to both bribes and intimidation from all the heavies that are always around boxing like moths around a light. Look up some of these pro judges. Here, I...