Poll of the Day > Any of you watch the Mayweather, Paul fight?

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what did you think of the fight?

no

I refuse. would be nice to hear that Paul gets clobbered though.

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why do you dislike him?

KazGT6 posted...

why do you dislike him?

because he's a terrible human being, along with each individual in his family.

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People don't like the Paul brothers for a plethora of reasons...
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The Paul brothers are legitimately terrible people, and they get away with a lot of shady/illegal things.

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No boxing is a joke and this only cemented it.

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Missed part of the last fight, but the whole card was boring tbh. Ocho had a pretty nice jab though. Just makes me appreciate mma that much more.

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Not interested. I think that boxing is a pretty messed up sport personally.

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I just saw some highlights, it seemed to be as boring as I expected it to be

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Mead posted...

Not interested. I think that boxing is a pretty messed up sport personally.

Sport itself, or its current state?

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dragon504 posted...

Sport itself, or its current state?

the sport itself

its basically a race to see who can do the most brain damage to their opponent as quickly as possible and that kind of harm has lifelong consequences for the fighters

and it doesnt help that many prominent boxers have a long history of beating multiple women to the point of hospitalizing them, which gets almost entirely disregarded by the industry

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Yeah boxing has to be the most physically damaging of any combat sport. It's pretty barbaric and stupid. But also, the state of the sport is pretty shit too. They basically have to set up meme fights now because hardly anyone cares about any fights outside of a couple big names. UFC is much more exciting and less damaging to the brain

Nah, never understood the concept of giving people you don't like money to see them fight. Any satisfying knockouts or such, if they even happen, would be on the internet within an hour anyway.
Plus Floyd in particular has a long history being a pretty boring fight to watch, and no way was some random youtuber going to force him out of turtling when everyone else couldn't.

OhhhJa posted...

Yeah boxing has to be the most physically damaging of any combat sport. It's pretty barbaric and stupid.

Eh... I'd say this is way worse:

https://youtu.be/sGCKZLyKlJU?t=179

(watch like 3:00 - 7:15)

But also, the state of the sport is pretty shit too. They basically have to set up meme fights now because hardly anyone cares about any fights outside of a couple big names. UFC is much more exciting and less damaging to the brain

That's what I don't get. Boxing seems like it's losing interest and dying, relying on these dumb gimmick fights.
Yet...anytime there's a "Boxer vs. MMA/UFC guy" gimmick match, it's ALWAYS a boxing match and the reason given is that boxing is the much bigger sport w/ way more money to pay out, so the UFC guys happily sign up even though they're pretty much guaranteed to get embarassed, just for the massively increased payout. If UFC/MMA really is replacing boxing in popularity, shouldn't that money/drawing gap be closing rapidly?

Mead posted...

the sport itself

its basically a race to see who can do the most brain damage to their opponent as quickly as possible and that kind of harm has lifelong consequences for the fighters

and it doesnt help that many prominent boxers have a long history of beating multiple women to the point of hospitalizing them, which gets almost entirely disregarded by the industry

Even though I made a crass statement about hoping someone gets punched, this is actually how I feel overall. Boxing is very doo-doo.

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no one is making them box though. If a couple of jacked dudes wanna beat the shit out of each other for millions of dollars, Im all for it

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Was dumb - Mayweather shoulda just one-shot Paul ... and the fact that he didn't is proof this was nothing but an advertisement for a service that was down 90% of the time during the fight

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yeah how tf did mayweather not 360 no scope him? rigged af

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Lokarin posted...

Was dumb - Mayweather shoulda just one-shot Paul ... and the fact that he didn't is proof this was nothing but an advertisement for a service that was down 90% of the time during the fight

Maybe he was unable to because of size difference and age difference.

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In one of the clips, Floyd sent Logan to dreamland but held him up so he wouldn't fall (afaik)

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I watched it just to be part of the crowd. The main fight wasn't very interesting, but I enjoyed watching Arias vs Hurd.

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Boxing is an absolute joke sport and has been since the 80s.

Would have been nice if they both got knocked out. Can't stand either of those dudes.