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The debate this time is Jose Napoles vs. Joe Frazier in 1969 with a recap of the decade and a pick for Fighter of the Decade. Hope you enjoy. This series is my favorite to write right now.
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RoldBoxing
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RoldBoxing
@RoldBoxing
Founder, The Corner Stool; Former Managing Editor, BoxingScene; Member, TBRB; Member, BWAA; Member, IBRO
Katılım Nisan 2012
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@maxkellerman Beat Angott right above the lightweight limit just before Angott won the title. Ring’s #1 contender at lightweight ten months into his career, #1 at welter a few months later, and was two rounds from winning the light heavy title a decade later.
Robinson and then everyone else
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AS a welterweight he was 131-1. FIGHTING welterweights he was undefeated. The only loss was to a prime Jake LaMotta, who was a middleweight, but against whom Ray weighed 144lbs. Gave up 16 lbs, and avenged the loss FIVE times!
Al Bernstein@AlBernstein
As a welterweight Sugar Ray was 131-1, facing multiple hall of famers along the way. He was one of a kind.
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@williams_e77333 I disagree. I liked a lot of it. Not all time great, but not bad and super entertaining without being longer than needed
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@RoldBoxing She's a very talented actress, she was the only thing good about that movie. Hopefully she can get into some better projects.
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The thing I like about King’s approach is it genuinely differentiates her (New 52 did some of that too). Alcock really nailed that characterization. Between this and HOD, she’s really building chops that can exceed genre stuff
RoldBoxing@RoldBoxing
Enjoyed the new #supergirl Wasn’t as good as the new Superman but thought they adapted King’s comic well enough. Prefer Benoist as Supergirl but there were some cool aliens
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🚨 MASON-BELL PEAKED AT 820K VIEWERS
💥 The Abdullah Mason-Albert Bell WBO lightweight title fight peaked at 820,000 viewers on TNT, truTV and DAZN. The full event averaged 661,000 viewers across the three platforms.
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Enjoyed the new #supergirl Wasn’t as good as the new Superman but thought they adapted King’s comic well enough. Prefer Benoist as Supergirl but there were some cool aliens
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@BreadmanBoxing I may be stuck thinking of him as a switch hitter more than a pure southie but he’s right there too
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@RoldBoxing What are your thoughts on Crawford in the conversation.....
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Pac, Pernell or Usyk if you’re doing p4p stuff. Usyk literally.
BoxingScene.com@boxingscene
Who is the best southpaw of all-time?🥊
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Yes. I always draw that distinction. P4P is a marketing tool and a parlor game. It’s not real. I play along too. But the whole idea “if everyone was the same size…”
They ain’t.
The best heavyweight is the best boxer by default. Period.
Ellumi@HEsokaEE
@RoldBoxing You said he was never the best post Rico 🤔 ig you meant p4p? Which I disagree with anyways esp Post Fury series
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@HEsokaEE Usyk is the literal best fighter in the world. And sustained it for a bit
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@FredGarvinReal That’s not true. A lot were but the first 4 LaMotta fights and both Gavilan don’t think were. But there is at least enough to see he was that dude
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@RoldBoxing I will never stop clowning people who claim the “best” fighter is someone conveniently there is no footage of. But as I like to point out, so many try to say, “No one has footage of SRR in his prime”. Every single one of his fights from the amateurs on was recorded.
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Cliff also brings up a massive fact. Almost all boxing results back covering decades of boxing were “newspaper results”. Well surely newspaper writers could never be compromised or bribed! It all has to be true! Harry Greb, greatest fighter in history that no one ever filmed.
RoldBoxing@RoldBoxing
@FredGarvinReal Can’t prove how much was a pseudo work in that era but there were so seldom KOs in fights already set for newspaper verdicts it raises an eyebrow.
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@FredGarvinReal Why is there almost no footage of Tunney before Dempsey? Almost no footage of Benny? If you weren’t heavyweight champ, there just ain’t much until the 30s and even then it’s spotty until the 50s and 60s
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@RoldBoxing IF people cared, why wasn’t he filmed? Fight films were a massive money maker in that era where the US said it couldn’t be a national business. Which is why most fight films were sold to Europe. But Tunney knew the value of films and he got that money.
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@FredGarvinReal But other still like the year he won 40+ is part of the myth making. Like 3/4 of those wins were unofficial.
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@FredGarvinReal Greb’s official record is mind blowing. And we know he was filmed. It just didnt keep. Big bummer
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@dougiefischer He does but those guys did it across massive weight spans
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@RoldBoxing Hagler’s gotta at least get an honorable mention
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@CurtisScoon @OhHeyBawd True on all but Inoue. Inoue has more fights and he and Tank turned pro about 5-6 months apart.
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@OhHeyBawd And he still has more fights than Usyk, Beterbiev, Loma, Inoue and others by far.
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Just rewatched Xander Zayas Vs Boots Ennis.
It’s amazing. Xander hit the canvas in the 1st round, 5th round and 7th round. Got his head beat like a piñata the whole fight.
No comments on his chin or defensive deficiency. Boots gets rocked for the first time in his career while beating the bigger man from pillar to post and the haters still can’t give him his props.
Top 3 in the sport right now are:
1. David Benavidez
2. Boots Ennis
3. Tank Davis
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America is still mid at soccer. Four more years of ignoring this incoming.
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CONFIRMED: Rolly Romero vs. Teofimo Lopez for WBA welterweight title set for August 22 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The fight will be available as both a Prime Video and DAZN PPV.
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@MikeCoppinger All I ever needed was Bell-Mormeck II. Absolute banger and then the open scoring led to a a different fight late. Screw open scoring.
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This doesn’t make sense. It’s not like someone is going up to the judge mid fight to tell them their scoring isn’t popular on Twitter. And bad judges are used over and over again after the fact anyway. Just say no to open scoring
Deadwood Dick@Richard61898671
@MikeCoppinger You have transparency earlier in the fight. It's accountability. Because of that fact there is a natural human incentive to get it right vs a closed scoring system which doesn't provide that same incentive.
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@YoungDanielDad They’re going to explore the second Tuesday of his third title reign to find the angle no one has tackled
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