First of all, you're not nearly as gay as Preme. You actually know something about boxing. You've annoyed me plenty, and your strong mancrushes on a few fighters are borderline. You belong on the list, but your not #1.

Here's the problem. You have a preference for a certain type of fighting style and you get a big raging hard-on from fighters with superior athletic ability. You condecendingly dismiss fighters who don't fight in the style that is most pleasing to you. As somebody who has been reading your posts for three years, you seem to lack appreciation for the intangibles that can make a fighter better that other fighters with greater textbook skill or athletic ability. You accuse other people of being nuthuggers, but when it comes to fighters that are your favorites, you are as big a nuthugger as they come.

Perhaps you have and I misses the post, but I really never seen you be particulary openminded to other peoples ideas or analysis, and often, you are completely dismissive and surly at other peoples reasonable conclusions and opinions.

I think that's why you won the gay-off. While you are certainly a very good poster, knowledgable, and valued member of the forum, you've been around a while and in the process pissed of almost everyone, not only with your opinions, but also your self-important, arrogant tone. In way, you are doing something right, because you get people fired up and often stimulate debate, but when you treat people like they are stupid, especially people who are equally knowledgable, it's not going to make you the most well liked guy.

Personally, I hope you keep on posting just like you always have, and I'm sure you will. We need a few arrogant pricks like you and VD, at least ones who understand the sport. And I don't think people are taking too serious. They are probably trying to wind you up because you spend so much time winding up other people. It's all in good fun.

Except the stuff about Preme. He really is gay, and those of us who dislike him actually, in reality, dislike him (or at least his online persona). I wouldn't care if never posted here again because he never says anything informative or interesting. You, on the other hand, though irritating, contribute a lot to the forum.