Most incorrectly and overused terms in boxing (by fans)

[erics44]

The division will be worse off when wlad retires

[Master]

The division will be worse off when wlad retires

or Floyd retires when in fact the world of boxing will be in a better place.

[Beanflicker]

^that's another good one. People thinking that boxing will be better off when it's superstars who bring in MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars to boxing along with legit mainstream exposure all retire... I'd love to hear a breakdown of that one....

[beenKOed]

Piss on all y'all, I say say it the way I see it or feel it, and I don't plan to change any time soon!

Just what a boxing forum needs, the word police. Go fuck yourselves!

[Dark Lord Al]

Kid Thunder is a professional boxer.

[SlimTrae]

Good topic, with alot of great insight offered. I’ll use these examples for correct vs incorrect

Ruined Meldrick Taylor was ruined by JCC
Incorrect usage of Ruined: PBF -Maidana (Brock was just being Brock with his thread-)

Cherry picking (correct) After 16-0 Anthony Peterson defeated an unknown Jermaine White who was 13-0; White got beat from pillar to post round after round until White said to his corner “say man throw the towel in, I’m through.” So JCC jr 26-0 chose to fight him. Nothing at all for Jr to have gained from this extremely light arm puncher.

Cherry picking incorrect (PBF- cherry picked Guerrero – who hadnt lost a fight since 2005 (18 fights ago).
Cherry picked Canelo 42-0-1? Really? Cherry picked Maidana claiming because he wasn’t a boxer- then after the fight- Floyd got troubled by his cherry picked opponent because of that exact style. Cherry picked Cotto because he was supposedly (ruined) by Pac & Rito, yet he was coming off 3 wins. Cherry picked Ortiz because he isnt great-Not that he was fighting the WBC champ. Cherry Picked Shane-who was coming off 4 KO wins out of his last 5 victories- his only loss since Forrest in 2005 was Cotto in 2007-

Bum-most who get this term deserve it imo.

game- affixed to guys who aren’t that skilled, but find ways to stay in the fight: Sam Soliman vs Winky Wright (sam was game) Jermain White vs Anthony Peterson was game. He got hit with everything-yet didn’t get stopped: before he quit-White was “game”

Incorrect: Robbery- Hopkins vs Pascal I I didn’t call it a robbery- IMO-I did have Hop winning, but it could have went either way.

Correct-Robbery: Forman vs Briggs. Only thing missing in this robbery was the ski mask.

Running Incorrect: PBF did not run against Castillo 2, he positioned himself and used ring generalship.
Correct- Ray Leonard at times ran as fast as he could from Haglar.

Exposed- can also mean the same thing as (set the blueprint) him another overused term? So & so set the blueprint.

Incorrect: Castillo set the blue print for beating PBF. Maidana set the blueprint- yet PBF is still undefeated.

correct- Hopkins stated DLH showed the blueprint on how to beat Tito. In this case Tito had a chink in his armour that was (exposed).

Exposed outright? A fighter who has been protected with padded fights.
Lennox Lewis exposed Michael Grant & Jorge Gonzalez as big dudes with a little ass game.

Lennox Lewis exposed David Tua’s arsenal aint shit without his right hand.

Cotto exposed Randall Bailey is extremely average without his big right hand.

Michael Moorer’s chin is exposed by any hard hitting fighter

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Monstor.

[TitoFan]

Good topic, with alot of great insight offered. I’ll use these examples for correct vs incorrect

Ruined Meldrick Taylor was ruined by JCC
Incorrect usage of Ruined: PBF -Maidana (Brock was just being Brock with his thread-)

Incorrect usage of "ruined": JCC Jr. ruined Sergio Martinez
Well...... granted, only one poster here made that ridiculous claim.

Correct version: Martinez ruined himself by never giving himself enough time to recuperate fully from his knee injury suffered during his complete, embarrassing, and one-sided shutout of the clueless JCC Jr.



BTW, this fight also serves to point out the correct usage of "exposed", as in..............

Martinez exposed JCC Jr. as a subpar fighter with only a good chin and a penchant for gaining 30 pounds overnight from the weigh-in.

[erics44]

The division will be worse off when wlad retires

or Floyd retires when in fact the world of boxing will be in a better place.

The whole world will be a better place when floyd fucks off

[Fenster]

"Robbery" and "bum" are the worst by miles.

[brocktonblockbust]

I feel that this thread has been ruined by cherry-picking the topic, and just running and stating things which are pure robberies.

[p4pking]

@brocktonblockbust is a bum.

[Beanflicker]

@brocktonblockbust has been cherry picking his opponents on SB for years, always been overrated as a poster

[johnsebastianmiran]

This is for Dark Lord Al. Thanks for having the nerve to say that great is an overused term in sports and that can be the truth in any subject. Great according to Webster's dictionary is much more than ordinary size, extent, etc. (The great Lakes) We're talking much above the average. Then we talk about intense or great pain, a great power or a great writer. Something is eminent which simply means that it was meant to happen. Most important and excellent, skillful,a distinguished person. I think about this time Webster was playing with himself. The Thesaurus said and I'll paraphrase because I don't want to put anyone to sleep, Noble, grand, exalted, renowned ,celebrated, high, I'll bet Webster has been that way too, stately,imposing, OK so maybe at the stare down that's true Remember Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson. There was much more bullshit and most of the announcers at fights with a lack of a real opinion or belief toss it our way and it is contagious. Well being a veteran of being punished by teachers in elementary school I was once punished by reading one of the dullest books in the world from cover to cover and I am going to stop here because where I acknowledged your opinion of great is the book I was punished with. Great is overused.