Saddoboxing's - Boxing Room 101

UK folks will know the concept from the TV series.\

This is the thread that you can banish anything you want about boxing for eternity.

Basically its a bit of fun to bitch about the things you hate about this sport

Here's my choices:

1- Cliche's like hometown fighter should win a close fight, same goes with a champ should win close fight. Aggression over boxing is another, even rounds should not be scored as this is sitting on the fence, which is utter bollocks

2 - Sanctioning Bodies, need I say more

3 - Large entourages of fighters

4 - 10 point must system

5 - Pointless divisions including Straw, Light Fly, Junior Bantam etc

Good idea.

1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Adrien Broner
3. Tyson Fury
4. Floyd Mayweather

Promoters
Warren
Hennesey
Hearns
Mayorga

Large entourages has always been a pet peeve of mine, damn it's irritating.

Drew 'Bundini' Brown, Ali's personal cheerleader.

Corner men who scream instructions to their fighter during every round for the entire fight.

The disappearance of the same day weight in. They are protecting the bigger man from the smaller man by giving him more time to rehydrate.

Angel Garcia, a no class idiot.

Hey, I could go on all day but I'm getting pissed.

audley harrison- he's like a turd that simply refuses to flush.

Sulaiman, that swine.

Larry Merchant.

You wait four hours for him to say something and then you wish you had just buried a hole in a mound.

Scot Gilfoid

If you are curious and have never heard of him don't waste those 5 seconds of your life finding out.

Brandon Rios

Yeah maybe not a big problem in the long term but really I could of done fine without watching him stand in front of people and get punched as though not being able to become any more retarded was a skill.


Fights on at 4. A.M in the Morning

It's a guaranteed humdinger and the hype has been building for months but the fight is happening 8 hours away in Vegas and after hours and hours of drinking cheap ale and watching a shite undercard on substandard non widescreen, non HD you then promptly fall asleep and awake to hear Larry Merchant clearly even more pissed than you are asking questions in slow mo to a fighter who also doesn't really give a feck anymore.

The idea that British Fighters are given an unfair advantage at home, are over rated, feather fisted etc

It may have escaped everyone's attention that while we may have a bigger population than Puerto Rico we are hardly the U.S.A. There are half as many Brits as Mexicans so we do OK when it comes to representing ourselves and punching above our weight internationally. You can't possibly think that British Judges and reffs are more biased than German, Mexican, American, Irish etc unless you have a little bit of hate going on. Our Domestic scene is solid and we helped originate, formalise, teach and popularise the sport around the world so have some respect. Wankers.

Tyson Fury

The name is an impossible burden to live up to. So un Tyson like and unfurious they had to name him twice. Mickey Infuriating would have been more accurate. Where to start, The singing, The Hype , The I will fight anyone but not really bollocks, The inability to formulate a coherent sentence, The English born but Irish Blood thing played to maximum advantage with very little consistency, dissing the Lonsdale belt, Running away from Price and then calling him a gay plumber ? His insistence that he is what he is clearly not, leaning, choke holds, being floored by Warwick Davies et
Not showing more of the Ring Girls

Yeah it's 2013 but they are there. If they were granted any meaningful airtime then you can guarantee that Youngblood or Master would have started a thread about them, but no they are marginalised and the role they play as women is forgotten about and demoted as an unimportant footnote. I am not asking for their own show but do we really need the cameraman or producer to specifically ignore them on purpose when nothing particularly watcthable is happening ?

Texas Judges
Jim Lampley
Judges anonymity and lack of accountability
Don King thinking he is still relevant
Rappers and or truck loads of hangers on as ring escorts
Unofficial weights not being announced
Amatuer boxers in main events
PPV
States 'borrowing' commissions because they do not have one
The thought that mma is overtaking boxing...GTF outta here
Punchstats
Nate Campbell, Roy jones, Holyfield, Morales etc etc...etc....still fighting
Sub- titles....."Silver, youth" and about 10 other types
Oscar
Lack of ring girls equality and fair amount of air time!
Absence of instant replay
Jim Lampley

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Originally Posted by Spicoli

Texas Judges
Jim Lampley
Judges anonymity and lack of accountability
Don King thinking he is still relevant
Rappers and or truck loads of hangers on as ring escorts
Unofficial weights not being announced
Amatuer boxers in main events
PPV
States 'borrowing' commissions because they do not have one
The thought that mma is overtaking boxing...GTF outta here
Punchstats
Nate Campbell, Roy jones, Holyfield, Morales etc etc...etc....still fighting
Sub- titles....."Silver, youth" and about 10 other types
Oscar
Lack of ring girls equality and fair amount of air time!
Absence of instant replay
Jim Lampley

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^^^
What he said.

Pay Per View

Fighters only fighting once a year

TV Adverts in-between rounds :mad:

Boxers predicting what round they KO an opponent.

Commentators that start talking about fighters personal lives during intense fights when they should be talking about whats going on in the ring.

Don King

Anybody calling someone a BUM whilst hiding behind their computers (no boxer that gets in the ring is a bum in my opinion)

Total miss matches i.e Javier Fortuna vs. Miguel Zamudio

Spicoli has a pretty good list there. Definitely agree about the ring card girls.

Jose "Sullied-man" and everything remotely connected to him and his cronies.
30-pound weight gains after previous day weigh-ins.
Bloated W-L records without some sort of asterisk.
Lack of accountability for judges (if you or I screw up in our jobs... we're gone).
Yes.... lack of ring girl TV exposure (I know what the boxers look like already).
Abuse of catchweights (make weight... you fucking lazy bums!!)
Jose "Sullied-man" and everything associated to him.

John McCain and the other cnuting politicians who pretend they're going to "clean up boxing" around the time they're up for re-election to buy themselves some working man cred. They get a ton of publicity, hold a few hearings and go back to doing fuck all about it.

PPV and having adverts is a joke but to have them both is a smack in the face to boxing fans staying up at 4 in the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bO3aWzBMQM