Boxing Trilogy no.1

Hi, today I checked out a great match-up in the ring!

Erik “El Terrible” Morales vs Antonio Barrera

2000, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

Split decision, first fight of the trilogy.

You know, they gave it to Morales, my preferred fighter of the two, I really like his style! But in my opinion, Barrera won the fight. But it was close. Barrera was the steadier dude that night. ALTHOUGH, he did hit some low schnootzees!

Ok, next, tomorrow, fans of the Nikki zone! Fight #2 between these two famed unreal pro fighters! YES!

Oh! This first fight won fight of the year in Ring Magazine, then best fight of all time! Ya! It’s REALLY good boxing!

Nico

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5 responses to “Boxing Trilogy no.1”

justrojie

December 10, 2024

That’s cool is it boxing or mma?

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1. Nicholas K F Matte
  
  December 10, 2024
  
  Oh these two are traditional boxers yes
  
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  1. justrojie
    
    December 10, 2024
    
    Ohh ok!
    
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fgsjr2015

December 24, 2024

When serious, boxing has always been brutal as a professional sport. (Then again, now there’s the utterly barbaric ‘ultimate fighting’, using barely covered knuckles and even bare knees or feet for K.O. blows — yet it’s legally selling live-viewing tickets to eagerly excited individuals and commercial-time slots to legitimate business advertisers.)
It has always both bewildered and bothered me how a person can throw a serious punch without any physical provocation. Also disturbing are the only-too-eager viewers, with some girls/women among them. In the early 1980s, I’d see from a distance the mostly-male ‘audience’ at the after-classes fights between a pair of almost-always male students, one of whom was needed to initiate the barbaric exchange.
A few years later, during my own troubled-teen years, I observed how by ‘swinging first’ a guy potentially places himself in an unanticipated psychological disadvantage — one favoring the combatant who chooses to patiently wait for his opponent to take the first swing, perhaps even without the fist necessarily connecting.
Just having the combatant swing at him before he’d even given his challenger a physical justification for doing so seemed to instantly create a combined psychological and physical imperative within to react to that swung fist with justified anger. In fact, such testosterone-prone behavior may be reflected in the typically male (perhaps unconsciously strategic) invitation for one’s foe to ‘go ahead and lay one on me,’ while tapping one’s own chin with his forefinger.
Yet it’s a theoretical advantage not widely noticed by both the regular scrapper mindset nor general society. Instead of the commonly expected advantage of an opponent-stunning first blow, the hit only triggers an infuriated response earning the instigator two-or-more-fold returned-payment hard hits.

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Caleb Cheruiyot

December 27, 2024

Great!

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