Boxing

[BobbyFord]

Anyone still follow boxing? What a crap farce this sport has become.
Watching the fights on FS1 after the ARCA race. They got a guy, Terrell Gausha, 2012 Olympic boxer with a 10-0 record fighting a lackey ten years his senior. People wonder why boxing sucks in the U.S.
I remember watching boxing from the Olympic Auditorium with my dad when I was a kid. Even into the 80's boxing was still good. I enjoyed watching guys out of the Kronk Gym in Detroit, Ten Goose, Gleason's.
Boxing is just a bunch of padded hacks now.
The heavyweight division has sucked for almost two decades.

 

[Benevolent One]

Oh, yeah. Boxing has been circling the drain for many years now. To me, the 80's were the height of boxing. I loved the days of Hagler, Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Hector "Macho" Camacho, even Larry Holmes and those guys provided some pretty memorable fights. Over the past several years you get the occasional really good fighter like Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr, or Manny Paquiao but one or the other or both of them dodges the other one so as not to hurt his record or reputation. That type of thing has really helped the popularity of MMA as UFC president Dana White makes sure nobody ducks anybody or they forfeit their title.

 

[breatheoflife]

Corruption killed boxing.

 

[Benevolent One]

Corruption killed boxing.

Absolutely. There wasn't much of a bigger boxing fan than I was years ago. I've mentioned it in here before, I'm sure, but there was a fight years ago where Julio Ceasar Chavez, Sr. was just absolutely getting his ass kicked by Meldrick Taylor (or it may have been "Sweet Pea" Pernell Whitaker, but I seriously doubt it.). Chavez was like 63-0 at that point so it would have been Chavez' first career loss and with about 15 seconds left in the fight he landed a lucky shot that knocked down Taylor, who got up immediately and was ready to go long before the ref got halfway through a ten count, but because Don King owned Chavez and as it turned out, the referee Richard Steele actually worked for a company that Don King owned, the referee stopped the fight with literally like 2 seconds left in the last round saying Taylor couldn't continue safely.

I didn't watch another fight for years after that. Eventually, I came back, but I never watched a fight the same after that one.