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[Willow The Wisp]

Ah, but authorities want to keep safe from the evils of PED abuse the athletes who get punched in the brain....

[Willow The Wisp]

Well Bronson66; You, I like....

[Willow The Wisp]

Yaaaaaaaaa!...

[Willow The Wisp]

These Joshua fans and their Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder.

I love Joshua. Even make pilgrimages to London and Cardiff to join in the parties thrown in his honor; but making indefensible insults towards Wilder are NOT going to undo Joshua's disasters, the likes of which Wilder NEVER experienced...

[Willow The Wisp]

Ahhhhhhhh, Yup.

You lay down with dogs You wake up with fleas.

If the WBA title holds meaning to you, so too do their ratings and policies. ...And history!


Lol. What a mess.

But still; the guy keeps training, fighting and winning under the only...

[Willow The Wisp]

Probably going to recover and continue to make the fight razor close. It really wasn't all that.

Now Wilder....THOSE were real knockdowns!!! And even those he escaped from....

[Willow The Wisp]

What??? You make no sense here. He wants the fight in England. Champion for a decade, he should get what he wants....

[Willow The Wisp]

They had the right winner both times, but, Could've gone either way, actually. Be real....

[Willow The Wisp]

Wilder against Joshua 7 years too late, remains a fight that will make big money. Not because of the current standing of those two; but because they are both among the most famous players in the game.
(See Jake Paul's PPV numbers to better understand that phenomenon).

Wilder needs...

[Willow The Wisp]

It's sounds squeamish, I know; but I personally watch for when debates go insulting on message boards. I back off a little because I don't want to contribute (much) to any poster; well informed or not, purposely antagonistic or not; being driven away from the herd.
Why is this anything to care...

[Willow The Wisp]

What a fight that was. Mecca for me.
Wouldn't go anywhere near trying to chisel that win out of Smokin Joe's hands.

Dig?
Quarry and Bonavena for "tuneups"? Like WW I was a tuneup for WW II?...

[Willow The Wisp]

Correct. All of the Sundowners had boatloads of unrecorded paid fights. In the first quarter of the 20th century, shockingly; white newspapers believed they had more important things to do than cover the doings inside the juke joints.

Dave Hatch, Hunter Briscoe, Black Fitzsimmons (Ulysses...

[Willow The Wisp]

There are many good points that have been brought up here in defense of the toughest sport in the world that you can't tap out in.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that experience, critical in all sports, and indeed all professions, has a unique twist for Boxing. In boxing, every...

[Willow The Wisp]

Jess Williard...

[Willow The Wisp]

It is often forgotten that Jess Willard was a heck of a fighter, with an excellent resume. Fans today might consider him an earlier version of Vitali Klitschko. They possessed similar height, weight, ability and build. While Vitali benefitted from the easements that exist in the modern sport; what truly...

[Willow The Wisp]

I agree.

Interestly, here in the United States, the National Football League may soon have to relay on a draft that features players who have, yes, indeed; never played the game for greater than 4 years, and American colleges and universities will be in the business of giving their recruted...

[Willow The Wisp]

And.....you have to have a natural aptitude or you're out of luck.
Jake has got some of that, let's face it.
But we can't discount the massive advantages he's benefited from either.

At this point, Jake is not quite Tommy Fury level in terms of abilities.

The success...

[Willow The Wisp]

I love this kind of discussion. I know them all, from recalling the images of their faces to their biographical briefs. I'm not proud of that, kind of geeked, but that's what it is. When I get a moment, I'll contribute something....

[Willow The Wisp]

Shields his face from the hot Havana sun. Ya, right.

Johnson was human, and old; and Willard was far better than the Dempsey film would have you believe....

[Willow The Wisp]

Even so, he's not at all knowledgeable on Boxing.

He's just mad that Jake Paul won, and venting in a "I'm taking my ball and going home" sort of way.
Insulting the hardest sport there is in the process....