To the Canadian Saddoites

[IamInuit]

I am from Nova Scotia. I can honestly say I do not know of 3 friends who can name more than 3 active fighters. And if they can they couldn't name who they fought last. Just names they heard while watching sports highlights while waiting for hockey stats.
Our province has a strong boxing history and it is a shame no one here has ever heard of a Sam Langford, let alone a George Dixon. But can tell you who played what position with what jersey number of almost any team in the NHL.
I feel so alone I am going to open a beer, eat some back bacon with maple syrup while wearing my toque. Have a good one, eh.

Same over here in Newfoundland.

A lot of UFC fans, very few boxing fans.

Yet so many Irish. Neutering program?

And poor @frasd. WTF happened there? One of the last places on earth to teach Gaelic. Shit half of Ireland has probably learned their Gaelic from that province Kirk Johnson was a bit of a sad note to go out on.

At least in Yukon I knew what I was heading for. A barren fucking wasteland. The only thing historic boxing wise from here is the fact that when Vic Foley retired he moved to Dawson city and was the bartender at the Midnight Sun knocking out half wits well into his late 60's.

Which puts Yukon, population 35, 000 ahead of my home province of Alberta and birth province of Saskatchewan in their combined boxing history

Translated Nova Scotia actually means New Scotland and our Gaelic is more true to the original only because the rest of the world moved on and we didn't. I actually have met Kirk at the gym and he isn't the asshole he has presented himself as being. That being said, I am not his friend and maybe I am wrong.

But he shouldn't be in the same sentence as any of the other greats from this location although I did have hopes for him before the Ruiz fight.

And for the Newfie, I lost my first amateur fight in NFLD. I blamed it on being 15 and scamming free drinks on the ferry ride over the night before. That is true but so is the fact that you guys are as hard as you are sociable. Having the most bars on one street in all of North America is a record you should be proud of. I once passed a guy holding out jumper cables and his hood up. I stopped and helped him out. He asked if I was from Cape Breton or Newfoundland thinking he was referring to my accent. He said that his car was a piece of shit but the only people that would ever stop were one of the two.

Good to talk to fellow Canucks but I will settle for anyone who is boxing informed at this point. I know amateur boxers that don't even know the difference between Ray Robinson and Ray Leonard.

Yeah I was just reading an article awhile back suggesting a lot of Irish go there to study. All those east coasters are inbred so.....

Try having people still asking you if Tyson is making a comeback in 2015 or asking who who Tito is or Hearns which are two posters in my office.

Not trying to kiss ass on a British dominated forum but they are by a long shot the most knowledgeable about their own history and their modern era. I also think that they are above most countries on their knowledge of the international scene. I find North-Americans a lot more geocentric for lack of a better term. I had a random conversation with a florist from Britain about the entire Benn, Eubank, Watson and Collins era.

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Translated Nova Scotia actually means New Scotland and our Gaelic is more true to the original only because the rest of the world moved on and we didn't. I actually have met Kirk at the gym and he isn't the asshole he has presented himself as being. That being said, I am not his friend and maybe I am wrong.

But he shouldn't be in the same sentence as any of the other greats from this location although I did have hopes for him before the Ruiz fight.

And for the Newfie, I lost my first amateur fight in NFLD. I blamed it on being 15 and scamming free drinks on the ferry ride over the night before. That is true but so is the fact that you guys are as hard as you are sociable. Having the most bars on one street in all of North America is a record you should be proud of. I once passed a guy holding out jumper cables and his hood up. I stopped and helped him out. He asked if I was from Cape Breton or Newfoundland thinking he was referring to my accent. He said that his car was a piece of shit but the only people that would ever stop were one of the two.

Good to talk to fellow Canucks but I will settle for anyone who is boxing informed at this point. I know amateur boxers that don't even know the difference between Ray Robinson and Ray Leonard.

My dad is from Nova Scotia. We were talking about boxing one day (he knows very little about boxing and could give a fuck less about it) and he was telling me how him and his buddies used to hang at a local rec centre with a boxing ring in it, and they'd throw on the gloves and fight for fun every now and then. One day a big Jamaican kid named Trevor Berbick was hanging out there and sparring, so dad got the bright idea to put on the gloves and get in there with him, figuring all the scuba diving he was doing made him fit enough to get in with an amateur boxer. He said in about 10 seconds he was getting up off his ass wondering what hit him. Everyone laughed at him, very embarrassing.

He was shocked when I informed him Berbick went on to be world champ, and got a kick out of seeing the Berbick/Tyson fight.

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Whatever happened to Steve Molitor?

He was a bust-a-roo.

I actually remember there was some buzz about him for a bit, there was actually a lot of hype surrounding him going into the Caballero fight. That pretty much killed off his buzz I think, he took a serious beating.