I wear boxers. I like watching my kids play in boxes. I think boxers are funny slobbering dogs. It's fun to be obnoxious with guys and talk about hot boxes. But I think boxing is stupid.
I’m a lover not a fighter so I admit I’m biased. But my problem with boxing beyond the violence and health risks is the corruption. I barely follow the sport and am really only exposed it to because I watch way too much ESPN and I still read the sports section of the newspaper. Apparently there is an investigation into the results of the Bradley-Pacquiao fight.
Bradley was awarded a split decision victory while the overwhelming majority of the rest of mankind thought Pacquiao easily won the bout. Three judges score each round and none have access to television commentary, outside opinions or the punch counts that viewers get in real time. Pacquiao landed a ton more punches and also way more ‘power’ punches, whatever those are.
Who knows if anything will happen, but some boxing oversight association that is probably corrupt in it’s own right is investigating the situation. I think the solution is simple. Three judges without any technological input on punch counts and I assume no video to replay are susceptible to error in judgment. So why not use nine judges or eleven? Simple solution.
Crazily, I have other boxing news to scoff at. World Champion Floyd Mayweather is serving time in prison. I think he used his woman as a sparring partner against her wishes. So he’s in jail for a few months. I just read that he asked to be released because he isn’t getting enough water, he is malnourished and he can’t get in his preferred regime of workout time. The judge ruled that he has plenty of water and is not limited in access, he’s not eating well because he’s not eating (he says the food is gross) and that he has a perfectly acceptable amount of recreation time as do all inmates.
Maybe if Floyd Mayweather didn’t beat up women he wouldn’t have to experience the taste of jail food and imprisonment. Duh. Thankfully the judge rejected his appeal to be released because he doesn’t like being punished.
You had me at hot box
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ReplyDeleteWow, I didn't know you can ask to leave prison because it's uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot 3 lock box.
ReplyDeleteI used to hot box smokes. Please no talk of sports.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, you can't get what you 'prefer' in prison? No way...
ReplyDeleteI think you're watching too much boxing - switch to wrestling, that's way more fun!
ReplyDeleteI'm an NBA fan myself! Who knew you couldn't have it your way in prison? Imagine that!
ReplyDeleteThe only sports box I am familiar with is the penalty box. The only part of boxing I am up on is the part where I Google pics of Oscar De La Hoya and drool. I'm super good at that.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't need judges in boxing if you just let them fight to the death. Corruption schmorruption!
ReplyDelete@christine: You are hornier than me. I think. Well, maybe not.
ReplyDelete@gia: You can certainly ask.
@tam: I don't know what you mean.
@momo: Sports sports sports sports sports sports sports.
@chantel: Who knew?
@lulu: Mud wrestling sounds good.
@eva: Go Oklahoma City!
@angie: Oscar is a good looking dude.
@minxy: For someone so little and innocent looking, you are diabolical!
I can handle a few minutes of boxing. It is wrestling that I can't stomach at all.
ReplyDeleteMayweather probably dropped the soap in the shower and Bubba and the boys probably treated him like one of the girls. He ain't used to all dat.
ReplyDeleteThere's an automatic rematch clause somewhere so there may be an investigation but it will result in nothing as it has ever since boxing has been around. Idk why people are so surprised, I used to watch boxing in Mike Tyson days, and this happens regularly. There is more money in having a rematch than just letting the person win that was supposed to win.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad used to watch boxing on TV, liked Pabst Blue Ribbon while he watched. Then one day he stopped watching the fights. When I asked them why, he said they went "crooked". He still drank Pabst, though.
ReplyDeleteWe have a boxer here in Memphis named Tamara Mitchell Ford. She boxed her ex-husband's girlfriend, an unwilling sparring partner, and ended up with a court date. She skipped the court date and the judge, suddenly angry enough to send the little angel to jail, locked her up. The other inmates, not convinced that she was a queen despite her insistence that they all bow to her, boxed with her in large numbers as she is very experienced with boxing and thus 9 against 1 seemed fair. After losing her first professional bout in Shelby County Correctional, she whined to the television cameras about not being respected properly while in jail. And so the judge let her out early. I haven't heard any news stories of her boxing matches since. It has been nearly 5 years now. Apparently her first loss was enough to convince her to quit boxing altogether. So see there, sometimes boxing can be a good thing. It cured Tamara Mitchell Ford.
ReplyDeleteI only want to watch boxing if the guys are wearing tighty whites.
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