
Originally Posted by
Greenbeanz
Rep away the guy is a great poster. You can toss any amount of insults at a large section of the board that might take issue with some of your sweeping statements, but personally my bottom is fine and calling me a baby is not the same as answering a post. If you want to throw your lot in with infantile posters who dismiss everybody pre 1990 as fighting in an era crowded with bums and take offence at people merely acknowledging Mayweather as a great fighter rather than elevating him to the pinnacle of their own p4p list then I guess I should not be surprised that your own sense of humour is as brittle as Floyds hands.
It's not personal, you are a great poster who makes some very cogent arguments I am just a little sick of being labelled as some kind of Boxing nincompoop because I personally think a lot of modern fighters are not all they claim to be. You are right there are exaggerated claims made on behalf of many fighters from previous eras but I am not that old and when I watch fights from before my time it is not nostalgia that leads to me enjoying and rating fighters from those eras. It is simply my opinion and the result of using my eyes in judging effective ring marshalling abilities, stamina and techniques that are just not as prevalent today. IMHO.
I don't think Boxing is merely a sport or a game. For me it is also an art form and as so, appreciation of it is entirely subjective. In reality there is no such thing as bad art. I will often wrtie and argue till I am blue in the face that there is but in the end I like what I like and you like what you like. There are points where we may be in common agreement but neither of us is going to change what the other one loves.
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