Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
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The biggest let downs for me were Pacquiao vs Solis and De La Hoya vs Mayweather.
Pacquiao vs Solis was me and my best friend's first chance to expose our girlfriends to the typhoon that is Manny Pacquiao. We kept building it up on how exciting his fights are and the fight itself was very akward and atypical on what you usually see. The crowd we had in the house didn't get into the fight until the last two rounds.
The worst of all was De La Hoya vs Mayweather. The fight was billed "The fight to save boxing." Instead, we got Mayweather running and De La Hoya coming after him, not punching, just walking towards him. We probably had the biggest turn out for a fight at my friend's house that night and no one left satisfied (aside from the booze).
It's topics like this that should make us glad we are about to see Barrera/Pacquiao II, Taylor/Pavlik, Juarez/Marquez, Kessler/Calzaghe, Cotto/Mosley, Hatton/Mayweather (Hatton will make this a better fight than De La Hoya did), Vargas/Mayorga, Jones Jr./Trinidad.
These are fights that will save boxing from "the fight to (supposedly) save boxing." THANK GOD! NOW WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO BE EXCITED FOR!!!
de la hoya v mayweather? what exactly where you expecting from that? mayweather to go toe-to-toe with him? S*** that would be career suicide... that fight turned out pretty much exactly the way sane people thought it would, both doing what they done best to try and win... mayweather was spot on and thought it was a very good fight...
I definitely did not expect Mayweather to go toe-to-toe with De La Hoya, not in the least. But I did expect De La Hoya to be aggressive and bring the fight to Mayweather, which did not happen after the middle rounds. He was aggressive enough for the first 6 rounds to get me excited at times, but after that he stopped throwing punches.
I was let down because I thought Oscar wanted to hurt him, but instead he didn't fight with a killer instinct.
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
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Originally Posted by caleoh12
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Originally Posted by Preme
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Originally Posted by caleoh12
The biggest let downs for me were Pacquiao vs Solis and De La Hoya vs Mayweather.
Pacquiao vs Solis was me and my best friend's first chance to expose our girlfriends to the typhoon that is Manny Pacquiao. We kept building it up on how exciting his fights are and the fight itself was very akward and atypical on what you usually see. The crowd we had in the house didn't get into the fight until the last two rounds.
The worst of all was De La Hoya vs Mayweather. The fight was billed "The fight to save boxing." Instead, we got Mayweather running and De La Hoya coming after him, not punching, just walking towards him. We probably had the biggest turn out for a fight at my friend's house that night and no one left satisfied (aside from the booze).
It's topics like this that should make us glad we are about to see Barrera/Pacquiao II, Taylor/Pavlik, Juarez/Marquez, Kessler/Calzaghe, Cotto/Mosley, Hatton/Mayweather (Hatton will make this a better fight than De La Hoya did), Vargas/Mayorga, Jones Jr./Trinidad.
These are fights that will save boxing from "the fight to (supposedly) save boxing." THANK GOD! NOW WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO BE EXCITED FOR!!!
de la hoya v mayweather? what exactly where you expecting from that? mayweather to go toe-to-toe with him? S*** that would be career suicide... that fight turned out pretty much exactly the way sane people thought it would, both doing what they done best to try and win... mayweather was spot on and thought it was a very good fight...
I definitely did not expect Mayweather to go toe-to-toe with De La Hoya, not in the least. But I did expect De La Hoya to be aggressive and bring the fight to Mayweather, which did not happen after the middle rounds. He was aggressive enough for the first 6 rounds to get me excited at times, but after that he stopped throwing punches.
I was let down because I thought Oscar wanted to hurt him, but instead he didn't fight with a killer instinct.
oscar prssed the fight for the most of it, and started to tire towards the end, floyd made him work but it was his freakishly good defence that forced oscar to miss and try look for other ways to win the fight... what? you wnated de la hoya to just charge forward and hit arms and gloves the entire night?
that fight sure as hell was no action packed FOTY - but what it was, was a fight with two world classes boxers showing great skill... tht fight to me was far from a let down... not everything has to be a bloodbath.
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
I'd have to say jermain taylor as of late......I was so into this guy and every fight since hopkins has really let me down, it's like he's a totally different fighter now. The jab of the old taylor was amazing.
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
AUDLEY HARRISON
SHANNON BRIGGS
SERGIO MORA
CLINTON WOODS
and let's not forget JERMAIN TAYLOR I stayed up till 4AM to watch him v Cory Spinks and I fell asleep after the 4th Round NO JOKE. I will never forgive him for that >:mad
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
I remember paying 4 Tyson-Etienne, staying up till 4 in the morning then 49 seconds later
i got to go asleep ;D
should have known better but Etienne's record was decent enough, bastard was able to take his
gumshield out but didn't even bother to try get up!
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Naz vs Barrera.
Gatti - Ward trilogy seems like the could have given just a little more than they did.
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Calzaghe - Manfredo .... I mean the reasons IE exposure it was a good reason but ...i think it was just plain dangerous putting Manfredo in with Joe but was looking forward to just watching him get ktfo
...went the stadium to watch and all.....next thing you know 25hit combo ...its all over.....what a crock of shit that fight was
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
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Skelton - Williams 2
Same here. The first fight had me on the edge of my seat it was a REALLY good fight, better than I ever thought it would be. The second fight was so poor in comparison I was pretty gutted.
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Morales - Pac II
Lacy - Joe
ODLH - PBF
JCC- Randall
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Terry Norris-Keith Mullings. Norris got old over night and it prevented Norris-De La Hoya
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Tyson ear biting, i thought boxing was dead when that happened. Idiot!
Watching Ali V Holmes..just sad
Watching Duran continue in the 90's ...again sad
Losses
I really wanted to see Norris fight De la Hoya
Tszyu losing to Hatton, i wanted to see Tszyu fight Mayweather
Leonard losing to Camacho...sad again!
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Jeff Lacy the guy was convinced Calzaghi was scared of him and he couldnt even land a shot.
Klitchsco v Danny Williams - skysports were convince Danny Williams was good enough and he got rapped total mismatch
Tyson v Mcbride - very sad to see Mike that way i have a soft spot for the guy
Calzaghi v Manfredo - who the hell told manfredo he had a chance he shouldnt have even been there
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
As far as fights......I was actually really looking forward to an impressive Sergei Lyakhovich showing after his slugfest fight of his life. Then the Briggs fight. Man that sucked.
Wright v. Hopkins was also very disappointing, both because of poor scoring in addition to the other man in the ring refusing to deduct points for B-Hops behavior.
I didn't like how Acelino Frietas or Arturo Gatti went out either.......
Re: Biggest let down youve had in boxing?
Paid $50 to watch Tyson - Golata.
Ended after three rounds with Golata refusing to come back in for the fourth.
Not that I blame him, exactly.
