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tragedy against Johnny Riggins. I agree with you, boxing is my favourite sport,
but I'd abolish it for moral reasons. Anyway there are tons of fights already
fought to watch. Many thousands, maybe millions of fights. Regarding your
question, we use to say " i due pugili si stanno studiando ". That's the paisan
way to say "feel out". |
|8/7/04 05:10:41 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Massimo,
judging is subjective at best, prone to human error and that is why there are
three judges.Judging is based on who lands the most effective punches
and while who lands the most punches carries a lot of weight in the scoring, if
the punches are not effective and the opponent lands harder punches that hurt
the opposition, he can win a round even if he lands less punches.Vague
terms like effective aggressiveness and ring-generalship also are taken into
account. An example of the first term is if a fighter is pursuing his opponent
aggresively and doesn't land a lot of clean punches but is forcing the opponent
to run and also not land good punches, the aggresive fighter will win a round.
Ring generalship, being in control of the ring and the opponent, also carries a
lot of weight in scoring. This second term, while hard to define, I have never
really heard a good definition for this, can be seen as sticking to one's plan
and not fighting the other fighters fight, therefore not falling into the trap
of letting the other fighter effectively use his strengths.I do like the
ten point must system where the winner gets ten points and loser gets nine or
less points in a round. a knockdown will usually give a fighter a ten to eight
round and a second knockdown can make it ten to seven but to me, only if the
fighter knocked down is badly hurt. I would not give Bonevena any more than a
ten to eight advantage in round number two of his first fight with Joe Frazier
as Frazier was not badly hurt.While not meaning to start some people
picking on Ali again, in about the fifth round of his fight with Chuck Wepner,
Ali does nothing for the entire round but run around and clown and while Wepner
does little more, the fact that he is chasing Ali and he does land a few body
punches would make me score the round for Wepner, one of the very few he
deserved to win in the fight. I was shocked to hear the announcer say, "I would
have to score that round as being even as Ali did nothing in the round." How
could this be when Wepner was aggresviely pursuing Ali and Wepner did land at
least some body shots? While not much, it was more than Ali did in the round.|
|8/7/04 05:34:27 AM|Kent|same as yesterday||same@||||10|While on the subject of
judging, it is easier to show examples of what ring-generalship, being in
control of the ring, is. The two Ray Leonard verses Roberto Duran are good
examples. In their first fight, for whatever reason, Leonard fought Duran's
fight and even though Leonard fought well, Duran landed the harder and more
effective punches because Leonard stood right in front of Duran and slugged it
out with him. Duran won a decision and a lot of had to do with him being in
control of the ring. In their second fight, the opposite occured
because Leonard fought his fight by boxing from the outside and making Duran pay
by hitting him with punches and making Duran miss when Duran rushed in and tried
to make the fight more of a brawl. Leonard was in such control of the ring in
that second fight that a lot of people think Duran quit in frustration even
though to this day he claims he had bad stomach cramps, only he knows for sure
what the truth is.|
|8/7/04 10:07:11 AM|Joe Krause|Chciago||sadmspats@yahoo.com||||10|Analysis of
Frazier-Boanvena I has just went up on my website. I didn't do the scoring, but
a regular contributor did. classicboxing.tk is the website. Fight recaps,
career recaps, ring rankings for 1960-1980 and much more. Take a look we just
went over 20,000 visitors.|
|8/7/04 11:01:26 AM|max hord|fernandina
bch,fla||maxhord@adelphia.net||||10|Ernie you're pretty much right on the causes
of brain damage in fighters.One thing you have to consider as a contributor is
the ammount of sparring done in the gym.Day in/day out with 16 to 18 oz gloves