I'm kinda stealing this a little from a guy named Jeremy Poplin, who is a sports radio personality, for 1430 The Buzz in Tulsa, OK along side Chris Plank on The Big show. Simply put people love to see other people pummel each other till there is a victor. Along side MMA, people hurting other people for some reason is a major attraction for our human race. And it stretches across all continents. Boxing is what gave MMA such a big platform to begin in the first place, in my opinion i like boxing a bit more than MMA because they don't go down to the ground at all other than when they get their clock cleaned. Granted i like MMA also because it is a little different from boxing in the fact that they do go down to the ground if they like, but its kinda like comparing apples to oranges, but somewhere the oranges used to be apples but have transformed into apples, do, um you understand what i just said if you do you know what I'm talking about, Anyway boxing is something everyone can talk about, it stretches across different races, cultures, ethnicity's. It is a world sport and personally i like the different styles of boxing, if you aren't familiar with the styles go to this website http://boxingbeginners.com/how_to_box_styles.php . But basically i love boxing again because i got brought back into to it at a time a couple months ago when boxing was grabbing headlines again and bringing itself to the fore front of sports again, and it did so even more with the annihilation of Ricky Hatton, at the hands of super fast Manny Pacquio, a guy I'm bout to fill you in on.
Manny Pacquio 49-3-2 is a native of the Philippines born in 1978. He currently holds the IBO and Ring Magazine Light Welterweight titles. He beat the living crap out of Rickey Hatton in the 2ND round for a K.O. He has also beat Oscar De La Hoya, Erik Morales, and a host of other fighters, These are the belts he holds or has held in his career just to name a few,
- WBC world flyweight champion
- IBF world super bantamweight champion
- WBC world super featherweight champion
- WBC world lightweight champion
- World featherweight champion
- World super featherweight champion
- World light welterweight champion
- 2006 & 2008 Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year
- 2006 & 2008 Boxing Writers Association Of America Fighter of the Year
- WBC Emeritus Champion
- The Ring Magazine #1 Pound For Pound
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/02/mayweather-boasts-boxings-best-back/
Take a look at the article i linked right above and another one is Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is 39-0 and on May 1, 2009, it was confirmed that Mayweather is coming out of a 16-month retirement to fight Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He has basically held every title between the WBC Super featherweight Belt to the Super Welterweight Title, I personally don't like Floyd because he is to flashy and me me kinda attitude, but he can fight although he has received some criticism that he is stating to lose some of the speed in his hands and his side to side movements, although he could probably still clean my clock if he wanted so im not taking to much from him.
Another guy who although is getting up there in age, is Vernon Forrest a guy i personally like, he currently holds a 41 and 3 record, and became a boxing name by beating Shane Mosley for a bid to go to the Olympics in 1992(is this crazy or not, but 1992 was almost 20 years ago), and also he compiled a 225-16 record as a amateur before making a name for hiself by beating Shane Mosley, um yea that's a lot of fighting. He is 38 and losing a bit a speed but Vernon Forrest (41-3) reclaimed his WBC 154-pound title on September 14, 2008, against Sergio Mora via unanimous decision, the judges score were 118-109, 117-110, and 119-110. He can still fight, and will fight i suppose until his hands fall off or he gets his head rolled off his shoulders. On to the years of boxing that almost took it to its knee's.
Some of the big names and promoters in boxing back in the late 80's and early 90's were making a lot of money in my opinion off of the what i like to call Super Fight Phase. Year after year, Don King and other promoters put fighters like Evander Holyfield, Buster Douglas, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis, Riddick Bowe, David Tua, (Do you know what they have in common, they are all Heavyweights. These guys who make a living off of a sport a lot of people love,)up agaisnt each other and it almost seemed that they were paraded in front of us like they were the best thing ever, and guess what, they were at that time. That type of stuff dies eventually but the sport itself will not. I call it a Fad, there are a lot of good boxers out there that were heavyweights, that i think to a extent were used because it at the time was the thing to do and watch, do you remember how many people were getting together to watch fights, or putting money together to buy the PPV. I remember as a kid in the late 80's seeing people in my family get together to see a big time Heavyweight Bout between someone huge and someone that was either huge or was on the cusp of being a big time player in boxing, but then Mike Tyson lost his marbles and bite off Holyfields ear, and Tommy Morrison got AIDS supposedly, and a couple of fighters tried to come out of retirement to help save the heavyweight division but i think it was too late. The whole heavyweight phase of boxing was only going to continue as long as the ones that were currently a part of it could carry it, and eventually people got old and tired and couldn't carry it anymore, and it for the most part has sort of went away in the past OH lets say 5 to 9 years. its a shame because there are a lot of good heavyweights out there as well right now trying to make a name for themselves, they just don't get a lot of media coverage from any of the major media outlets for that matter.
But boxing as a whole has not and will not die, there are too many interests and too much money floating around for it to disappear, and like i said before boxing wont die for this reason, its like chess but with humans and there are no kings, queens, and bishops. Just uppercuts, jab, and right hooks. Everyone that watches this give boxing a chance, check out a PPV or even some Friday night fights on i believe ESPN can be very entertaining. Give it a chance there is too much talent out there for it not to make a comeback. I promise you wont be let down as long as you look for a good fight to watch, they are getting more and more common.
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