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Ray Leonard was the most hyped and protected figher of all time. He earned more in his first fight than Marvin Hagler was earning after 15 years as a pro.

He only ever took ONE risky fight, the first Hearns fight. Each and every other fight was carefully chosen and he always waited until his opponent was the most vulnerable.

Duran was coming up in weight, Leonard was the naturally bigger man and he should have won. He messed Hagler around for years, and most certainly didn't desrve the decision against him. There is no way he drew with Hearns in their second fight.

All the time the image machines was focusing on his smile and hyping him up, he was doing coke and beating his wife up.

[X]

Evander Holyfield would never have been world heavyweight champion without juicing steroids.

Riddick Bowe would never have beaten Lennox Lewis

Mike Tyson didn't rape Desiree Washington

Floyd Matweather would have been competitive against any junior Welter or welterweight in history, but he wouldn't have made much money as people wouldn't have paid to see him fight.

Basketball has ruined Americal heavyweight boxing

Greenbeanz secretly has a crush on Miles and Brockton

[IamInuit]

I think Manny might knock Floyd out
I think Fury has the freakish unorthodox attributes and size that could beat Wlad
I'd prefer same day weigh ins
I'd prefer 8 divisions, maybe 10 instead of 17 plus 10 available catchweights at a moments notice.
15 rounds for title fights

[TitoFan]

I'd prefer same day weigh ins

You beat me to it, but I'll state it another way...
Previous day weigh ins are a joke, exploited in tragic fashion by the likes of JCC Jr. and others.
Bring back same day weigh ins and quit stalling.

[SlimTrae]

I'd prefer same day weigh ins

You beat me to it, but I'll state it another way...
Previous day weigh ins are a joke, exploited in tragic fashion by the likes of JCC Jr. and others.
Bring back same day weigh ins and quit stalling.

Watched the Julian Jackson-Gerald McCellan II fight recently. I feel for Julian when post fight he stated "Gerald is a BIG middleweight. Dude came in looking like a LHW, just a bad thing for those who fight at walk around weight.

[IamInuit]

I'd prefer same day weigh ins

You beat me to it, but I'll state it another way...
Previous day weigh ins are a joke, exploited in tragic fashion by the likes of JCC Jr. and others.
Bring back same day weigh ins and quit stalling.

Watched the Julian Jackson-Gerald McCellan II fight recently. I feel for Julian when post fight he stated "Gerald is a BIG middleweight. Dude came in looking like a LHW, just a bad thing for those who fight at walk around weight.

Yeah its a shame and in many ways its sanctioned cheating. I remember all the chatter after Gatti/Gomache. The entire weigh in was a sham.

There are not many natural weight fighters left above 115. I remember even Hop weighing in under 160 the night of his fight with Oscar and he was around 160 in every fight at middle on the night of it. Floyd was like that for years but age has put on about 6 pounds or so when he rehydrates.
Manny might be the only one left that could be on or near 147 the night of his fights.

[Max Power]

Evander Holyfield would never have been world heavyweight champion without juicing steroids.

Riddick Bowe would never have beaten Lennox Lewis

Mike Tyson didn't rape Desiree Washington

Floyd Matweather would have been competitive against any junior Welter or welterweight in history, but he wouldn't have made much money as people wouldn't have paid to see him fight.

Basketball has ruined Americal heavyweight boxing

Greenbeanz secretly has a crush on Miles and Brockton

Those are not unpopular opinions...

Those are all basic facts that nearly everybody agrees on with exception to the ridiculous basketball rubbish made up by American's as an excuse for losing to foreign boxers. And I dunno about Beans.

I like the Tyson bit. I've never met ANY single person who actually believes that Tyson wasn't set up by that bitch.

[SlimTrae]

Berto is not done yet!

[La Cucaracha]

Ali won the fight of the century

[Max Power]

Ray Leonard was the most hyped and protected figher of all time. He earned more in his first fight than Marvin Hagler was earning after 15 years as a pro.

He only ever took ONE risky fight, the first Hearns fight. Each and every other fight was carefully chosen and he always waited until his opponent was the most vulnerable.

Duran was coming up in weight, Leonard was the naturally bigger man and he should have won. He messed Hagler around for years, and most certainly didn't desrve the decision against him. There is no way he drew with Hearns in their second fight.

All the time the image machines was focusing on his smile and hyping him up, he was doing coke and beating his wife up.

You can paint most fighters in such light there X but really, LEonard fought plenty of guests and I find it difficult to believe he manufactured his entire career.

You can say the same about MAyweather or Ali but they still fought many high quality opponents for their respective times (the exception being the Manny duck of course).