No go back to your neutral corner RULE????????????

**TheBESTP4P** · 01-23-2007 01:21 AM

hey biotchez i just flew back from ORLANDO on a 6hour whorendous flight and my appearance there was the TRUTH but the flight itself killed me man. good thing i was flying JET BLUE though cause they have TV's in the back of the head rests so one can watch whatever they chose. first of course i had to watch my CHICAGO BEARS win their way to the SUPER BOWL, then of course i had to watch some Simpsons followed by some Family Guy, then of course comes ESPN CLASSIC FIGHTS!!!!!!

so yes my biotchez they had this OLD SCHOOL program on ESPN CLASSIC that had LARRY MERCHANT co-hosting. the show was so old that Larry's hair was an awful brownish color instead of his now more recognizable silver or gray color. They went down the list of the most hardest hitting heavyweights of all time. They had Smokin Joe, George Foreman, Max Bauer, Dempsey etc etc.

What really got my attention was how they talked about how in Dempsey's time the early 1900's there was NO NEUTRAL CORNER RULE

? meaning u can beat the living crap out of your opponent while hes down and out and even as hes climbing up the ropes. much of the footage of Dempsey was of that, Dempsey was pounding on his opponents even while a knee was on the canvas or as they were tangled in the ropes and even while they was down already out for the count.

Could you imagine how fights would be today if they still had no neutral corner rule? Damn it would be brutal and probably no one would go the distance at all. it would be a FINISH HIM mentality all the way. What do you guys think about this? Is it fair to equate Dempsey and all the fighters from his time to everyone later who were not able to beat the living crap out of their opponents and having to obey the neutral corner rule

?

WHO do you see benefiting from the neutral corner rule today? obviously A LOT of fights today would have ended alot differently if we never envolked the neutral corner rule.

**TyBuff** · 01-23-2007 03:19 AM

Any fight that had a knockdown in it would have been different if this rule was still a rule. If the rule had stayed in place boxing would have morphed into something similar to a UFC, MMA type deal. Boxing would not resemble what we have today that is for sure.

**TheBESTP4P** · 01-23-2007 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by TyBuff

Any fight that had a knockdown in it would have been different if this rule was still a rule. If the rule had stayed in place boxing would have morphed into something similar to a UFC, MMA type deal. Boxing would not resemble what we have today that is for sure.

COOL CLICK tybeeezy! but u have to consider arguing for both sides...... Boxing would def be more action packed and brutal and like you said resembling more so the lieks of the UFC, MMA etc. but even so i see refs waiving off UFC and MMA fights soon as they see the fighter is taking too many haymakers or flurries or if he cant lift himself up off the ground. DEMPSEY and company during his era beat the beejezus out of their opponents even if they were still on the ground or trying to climb up the ropes back to their feet. it was amazing to see how much MORE of a beatdown those fighters took and dished out back then. makes you wonder truly just how many of our champs today would even survive back then?

**TyBuff** · 01-23-2007 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P

Originally Posted by TyBuff

Any fight that had a knockdown in it would have been different if this rule was still a rule. If the rule had stayed in place boxing would have morphed into something similar to a UFC, MMA type deal. Boxing would not resemble what we have today that is for sure.

COOL CLICK tybeeezy! but u have to consider arguing for both sides...... Boxing would def be more action packed and brutal and like you said resembling more so the lieks of the UFC, MMA etc. but even so i see refs waiving off UFC and MMA fights soon as they see the fighter is taking too many haymakers or flurries or if he cant lift himself up off the ground. DEMPSEY and company during his era beat the beejezus out of their opponents even if they were still on the ground or trying to climb up the ropes back to their feet. it was amazing to see how much MORE of a beatdown those fighters took and dished out back then. makes you wonder truly just how many of our champs today would even survive back then?

I dont think that there are a lot of fighters today that would still be boxing if those rules were still in effect.

**TheBESTP4P** · 01-23-2007 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by TyBuff

Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P

Originally Posted by TyBuff

Any fight that had a knockdown in it would have been different if this rule was still a rule. If the rule had stayed in place boxing would have morphed into something similar to a UFC, MMA type deal. Boxing would not resemble what we have today that is for sure.

COOL CLICK tybeeezy! but u have to consider arguing for both sides...... Boxing would def be more action packed and brutal and like you said resembling more so the lieks of the UFC, MMA etc. but even so i see refs waiving off UFC and MMA fights soon as they see the fighter is taking too many haymakers or flurries or if he cant lift himself up off the ground. DEMPSEY and company during his era beat the beejezus out of their opponents even if they were still on the ground or trying to climb up the ropes back to their feet. it was amazing to see how much MORE of a beatdown those fighters took and dished out back then. makes you wonder truly just how many of our champs today would even survive back then?

I dont think that there are a lot of fighters today that would still be boxing if those rules were still in effect.

exactly my point bro........ long story short it was way BRUTAL back then, so u gotta give it up to the OG LEGENDS of the sport they literally went thru hell and back compared to the softies that are so called champs today!