jayl0ve wrote:Did you see the Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight??? I can't believe I ordered that fight!! I was looking to give boxing a 2nd chance but now I see why I stopped watching it altogether...IT'S BORING!! THIS WAS THE SINGLE MOST BORING FIGHT I HAVE EVER WATCHED IN MY LIFE. CLOTTEY MADE AN ABSOLUTE FOOL OF HIMSELF, HE JUST STOOD THERE FOR 12 ROUNDS BLOCKING PUNCHES.
I think Pacquiao is an awesome boxer and all, and it's not his fault that this fight was boring, but man it sucked!!
Pacquiao threw over 1,000 punches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll take your point to a certain degree.
I don't know much regarding UFC, so I'll defer to your and GOA's knowledge regarding that sport and the ratio of good to bad fights over there.
But are you kinda generalizing and saying that most of boxing is usually boring?, if so, no I can't agree with that.
You've probably just had bad luck in picking out the stinkers and missing out on the good one's.
The Clottey fight yeah was a bad advertisement for the sport, but what did you think was going to happen?(and don't say you thought that at some stage maybe a real fight was going to break out
). I mean there's no way Clottey is going to let his hands go on a consistent basis v Pacquiao. You do that and you get KO'd, it's that simple. So Clottey obviously figured that it's better to go the distance and lose by shut-out, rather than have a KO loss on his record. After a certain passage of time when the stink of his performance starts to fade, that decision loss to the premier P4P fighter in the world, won't look half bad, especially when almost everyone else get's the KO treatment from the Pac-Man.
But ultimately yeah the fight was very disapponting. And the thing is that it wouldn't have even taken place if Pacquaio and Mayweather hadn't called off their fight because of some stupid argument over blood tests.
@ GOA,
Regarding the Klitchko's:
They do just enough to win almost every time out, nothing more nothing less. They're so robotic in nature and so awkward looking in style, that it's almost a pathetic state of affairs that these two call themselves 'world champions'. This is only possible because they're currently fighting in the worst ever period in HW boxing. There has never been another time that the HW division has been faced with so little talent.
In this fight with Chambers, Klitchko's trainer- Emanuel Steward, was so disgusted with the performance of his fighter that at the closing stages of the fight told Klitchko "You can't carry on like this and go for another bullsh1t points decision!"
This is the only reason that Klitchko woke up from his lethargy and at long last showed some real intent during the 12th round.
Just as an example,
Remember that 'world renowned' fighter named Ross Purity? Yeah I didn't think you did. Well that guy owns a KO win over one of the Klitchko's. That's how good they are.
Hell even our (South African) own Corrie Sanders has knocked out one of them in just two rounds and even had the other brother also hurt but couldn't quite finish him off.
If you guys want to see a good fight that's coming up relatively soon, pencil the following to your diary:
Saturday, May 22 - at Los Angeles, CA
Israel Vazquez - Rafael Marquez