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.