Posted on 05/19/2007 7:26:10 PM PDT by DCBryan1
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MIDDLEWEIGHT KINGS GO SLUMMING?
by William Dettloff
For those inclined to believe that a good big man will beat a good little man every time, the announcement that the middleweight champion is facing a welter or junior middleweight champ moving up is never good news. It means to him that the middleweight is slumming a bit, taking on a man whom he knows he will beat. Alas, many fans feel this way and groan instantly at the news. Unkind words will follow for the middleweight, who, the thinking goes, is most assuredly sinking to new, modern lows to which the middleweight kings of the past would never have stooped.
History is a great educator, of course, and reminds us that a great many of our middleweight heroes happily faced smaller guys, and several times came away from such pairings without the belt they had when they entered the ring. Indeed, it should be a comfort to us all that the outcomes were determined not by who was the bigger man but by who was the better one that night.
No less a member of the pantheon than the great middleweight Carlos Monzon deigned to face the best welterweight of the day when he met reigning 147-pound champion Jose Napoles in 1974 in Paris. Monzon already was a legend: he'd not lost a fight in 10 years, had won the title four years earlier by beating the excellent Nino Benvenuti, and had defended it eight times against the likes of Benvenuti, Emile Griffith and Bennie Briscoe.
Read more at:
http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2007/0519_taylor_spinks/columns/dettoff_middleweight.html
Little Rock could have sent any number of thugish, anti-education, entitlement seeking boxers, but not Jermaine. Jermaine Taylor is very nice, thoughtful, caring and intelligent. He loves his fans and doesn't act like a fool like other well known boxers.
He has got to stay focused for Spinks who could claim his title.
This will be a refreshing fight tonight.
Maybe they should check and see that there was a HORSE RACE LIVE THREAD earlier?
You guys have some sort of double standard or just miss that one?
However, they both do NOT deserve to be moved to chat.
Thanks anyway, we are making progress!
..Whew...
grabbing TWO beers after that one.
BTW, Pavlik knocks out Miranda after 6 rounds and bad call by ref. (Put Miranda in mortal danger)
The Ghost won!
Heck of a slug fest by Pavlik.
Pavlik will fight Taylor if he can hold on to this “fight”.
Taylor: 106
Spinks: 103
The fans are booing, and so am I. Not enough punches being thrown.
Here comes the score:
Taylor 116 WINNER
Spinks 112
Look for Taylor to fight a real man, Pavlik later this year.
Bad fight, Im going to bed.
Mods, you can move this to chat. Thanks again!
This fight was a reason why UFC is taking over. A middleweight title fight and it was so boring. Very boring. I am glad I did not pay for this.
You have that right, geez not even a boxing match, much less a fight.
Only 1 week to go to Jackson/Liddell 2 :)
MMA is taking over
As a female why is this here?
Chat is for this stuff I always try to respect the News/Activism forum.
Thank you.
Good question. Mods hijack my threads for some reasons and put them where they want. I did not want this (or the horserace thread) in breaking news, THEY put it there, but both did not deserve to be in chat (where threads go to die).
He's really gonna need it if he gets in the ring with Pavlik.....
This wasn't a case of somebody beating the odds. This was a case of the oddsmakers not knowing what they were doing; Pavlik would win that fight eleven out of ten times.
I wish my bookie dealt boxing. I would have won that one.
I’ll say one thing, I don’t fault Taylor for the way he fought Cory Spinks. In fact I don’t really know why a defending champion would ever feel he had to chase a guy like Spinks or Muhammed Ali. A challenger has to win decisively; you’d think a champion could simply tell one one of those guys something like “Hey, you’re either gonna come to me, or you’re going to lose a fifteen round decision in which nobody throws a punch, think it over....”
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