The Best Fights

[palmerq]

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

There has been a real paradigm shift and I hate being so negative. I just find it hard to ignore things like facts. I'm just not sure on the amount of empirical data needed. More disturbing for me is the buying of it. Enablers. How can this talent today at 147 be so F'ing dormant? I've never seen anything even remotely close as the Alvarez saga. And what was it 5 years for Manny/Floyd? This Haye thing. FFS did they pass out togas?

I agree with this. I think my favourite Wladimir Klitschko deserves a lot of credit for the way he handled his title reign(this is obviously just fan mail for wladimir btw :S).. He unlike a lot of fellows did make a very big effort to unify the belts and take on all comers, even offering a 50/50 split to haye and ibragimov.. Maybe wladimir was lucky to be in the era he was and is/was exceptionally boring to watch but he did make a lot of effort to make the big fights happen ! well done wladimir!

[SlimTrae]

I think every 4-6 years boxing has a stellar year.
A shame it takes so long.

2007 for me was a kick ass year. Yeah almost a decade ago. I am sure there has been a great year or two since.

HBO did a look back at 2007 great stuff.

[Spicoli]

It's totally natural and hindsight to make many of the classics we know. For me to say boxing is exact same for better or worse today as in 86' is to say I watch, enjoy or perceive the same. More time-less time, life happens and again the constant comparisons we make about big name days gone by. It's actually a good thing. Just enjoy a good fight regardless of status

[powerpuncher]

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

There has been a real paradigm shift and I hate being so negative. I just find it hard to ignore things like facts. I'm just not sure on the amount of empirical data needed. More disturbing for me is the buying of it. Enablers. How can this talent today at 147 be so F'ing dormant? I've never seen anything even remotely close as the Alvarez saga. And what was it 5 years for Manny/Floyd? This Haye thing. FFS did they pass out togas?

I agree with this. I think my favourite Wladimir Klitschko deserves a lot of credit for the way he handled his title reign(this is obviously just fan mail for wladimir btw :S).. He unlike a lot of fellows did make a very big effort to unify the belts and take on all comers, even offering a 50/50 split to haye and ibragimov.. Maybe wladimir was lucky to be in the era he was and is/was exceptionally boring to watch but he did make a lot of effort to make the big fights happen ! well done wladimir!

That's because wlad had no one to duck. They were all terrible opponents. Mayweather would have never ducked anybody either if his best opponent was somebody on the level of baldomir.

[palmerq]

That's because wlad had no one to duck. They were all terrible opponents. Mayweather would have never ducked anybody either if his best opponent was somebody on the level of baldomir.

I reject your reality and substitute my own :S

[powerpuncher]

That's because wlad had no one to duck. They were all terrible opponents. Mayweather would have never ducked anybody either if his best opponent was somebody on the level of baldomir.

I reject your reality and substitute my own :S

I can live with that