Trash Talking is beginning to Wear Thin IMO

**tedsares** · 02-22-2007 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by albsur2006

Originally Posted by Ted The Bull

Like Ward, Mosley, Shavers, Patterson, Brewster, Gatti, Hagler, Klit, Oleg and so forth and so on. I could list a lot of them but you get my idea.

Not everyone is a silent warrior. Sometimes it's good to have someone that's confident enough to talk and say things. Trash talk is great, why should PBF, Toney, or anyone else keep their mouth shut just because some people don't like it? They're the ones training and devoting their lives to the sport, they should be allowed to act however they want to despite who they are or aren't pissing off. Honestly, I wouldn't want to watch a press conference, for example, between Shane and ODLH because they'd just be sucking each other cocks for an hour, I like the PBF-ODLH press conference because there's conflict, it's funny, it's entertaining, and it's getting people that might not be boxing fans amped up about watching the fight. Not everyone can be a quiet nice guy, and that's what's awesome about sports, because for every Marvin Harrison, Tim Duncan, and Shane Mosley, you have a TO, Gilbert Arenas, and a Ricardo Mayorga.

I would not necessarily equate silence with being nice to wit: Hagler.

**ono** · 02-22-2007 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by Tito_BHB

Lol.. My friend..I can assure you..Toney is not acting..He is just that damn arrogant

And that damn good

Hell yeah, i've been reading a book called 'the dark trade' and a lot of that is about James Toney. The author spent quite a lot of time with Toney and he talks just as much trash to everyone. It's not an act. It's very real.

**Klitsfan** · 02-22-2007 01:55 AM

Some fighters need to trash talk to get big fights because there skills alone aren't on par with others or is just not crowd pleasing, they make you think they are really going to get after it but the fights usually end up the way everyone expected, lacking excitement.The fighters that don't talk are usually the most confident ones relying on their skills to do the talking.