the Delahoya/Mayweather thread :O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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who are you rooting for? who are you betting on, and how much money do u got on them??????? is there seriously a thread for the kentucky derby but not this?? i'm pretty sure the actual fight won't be nearly as good as de la hoya/mayweather 24/7 which is pretty much the most amazing television i've ever seen.

― cankles, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think SI's putting these guys on the cover pretty much fucking seals it for boxing. HBO's going to be living off Sopranos DVD sets from here on out, they ought to just get used to it. All my coworkers ever talk about is UFC shit, I haven't heard a peep from anybody about this.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

$60 gets me a good ticket to a baseball game and several beers. Boxing PPV can eat a dick.

― milo z, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

We got it for free but I don't think I'm staying up till four in the morning to watch it. I'm sure it'll be repeated tomorrow. Oscar ftw.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oscar in the 6th - 50/1, I'm liking those odds.

NV - Sky are repeating it at 8am

― Porkpie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. I'll get up early then.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Boxing isn't as fucked on US PPV as everyone assumes it is, it's just going to have to deal with not being market leader for the next 18 months.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I might stay up for it since it's free. Hopefully Oscar will win.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

omg tombot, are you http://www.mmiscuba.com/photogallery/Christamas%20Iland/FourEels.jpg??

a lot of pps i know have been talking about this, pps who are normally not interested at all in anything sportsy or fightsy, so idk man. i have to say that i have always liked MMA a little more and so UFC's surging popularity is a lil surprising to me, just because i never thought submission fighting would catch on big-time here. btw it was hella funny when crocop got his leg broke. go back to russia asshole!!!!!!!

anyway i'm pretty sure HBO isn't showing this for free until next week... i'm not exactly sure what i wanna do abt it tonight. for the hopkins tarver fight i couldnt find a place that was showing it, so i just downloaded it the next day and avoided spoilerz. i'd like to be able to see it tonight but I dont wanna have to hang out at, like, Hooters 8-(

― cankles, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wish hooters was showing it!

surprised by how many people picking de la.

def think pretty boy's gonna win. comfortable decision probably.

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Mayweather. But that might be wishful thinking.

As far as boxing's waning popularity, I have to admit to being part of the problem here. In the past few years, MMA has been everything boxing used to be and should be now but isn't.

― Manalishi, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

What is MMA?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Mixed Martial Arts. I can't get into it at all, most matches are dull (best I've ever seen was two women on the Showtime series, actually) and many of the contestants (primarily the white guys) look like extras from Oz. Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se, it's just weird.

― milo z, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

MMA = mixed martial arts - it's an umbrella term for trademarked venues like "Ultimate Fighting" "Pride Fighting" "King of the Cage" and so on.

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Yeah some matches are dull, but there are some good ones. It takes some getting used to understanding what's going on in grappling. Most people's only experience watching wrestling is with worked matches like Hulk Hogan and shit, and the real thing is absolutely fascinating but very very different.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had hbo to see that reality show.

― Ms Misery, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't watched boxing (other than random matches on the USA channel once in a while) in a few years, and, other than vaguely disliking de la hoya I don't really have a dog in this fight, but where I work everyone is going CRAZY over it. If the sport would figure out 'it's the pricing, stupid' they'd be doing just fine, much like other 'waning' industries we could name.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

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― cankles, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

oooh, thanks cankles!

mods? ;)

― Ms Misery, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Points. I think it might be a draw.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

The crowd are very unhappy.
But the judges give it to mayweather.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

I stayed up. Good fight, and the right decision I think. I've just heard Oscar interviewed on 5 Live and he doesn't sound like he disagrees either.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think Mayweather did enough to win to be honest. Oscar tired in the last few rounds so my guess is that's where the judges thought Mayweather won.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

I only feel like Oscar clearly won three or four of the early rounds. A lot of what he threw barely connected and Mayweather hit him with some dope counters. And from the mid-point on Mayweather had got the measure of him I think and Oscar just didn't have the legs to keep dominating.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

i have the 24/7 shit on-demand. should i b watching it? whats good about it?

p.s. "four eels" joke = A++++

― am0n, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

ya i thought oscar acquitted himself pretty well, at least he didnt go out like a little bitch (pronounced 'lel betch') like roy jones. i came into it kinda rooting for mayweather, never been a big DLH fan, but i couldnt help but hope he would pull it off as the fight went on. it felt like you could count on one hand the number of clean shots dlh got on mayweather, like you could imagine any fighter in the world going 50 rounds with floyd and never getting anywhere. dlh did a great job defending the right hand lead early on, but then he abandoned the left jab and left it in floyd's hands. that's the biggest mystery to me - everyone could see that he needed to use the jab more, even fucking hopkins was yelling at him. and when larrymerchantpaws asked him abt it he was just like "i dunno lol!" wtf?? he acknowledged str8 up that it was the punch that was working best for him but he barely bothered using it.

― cankles, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

haha thanks amon i am more proud of that than anything else ever probably :[

― cankles, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

agree w/ kellerman re: kaczmerak being insane seing DLH as winning that...think i wouldve had it around 8 to 4 for floyd.

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

SPOILER: MAYWEATHRE KILLS DE LA HOYADORE

― am0n, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

115-113 either way or a draw would have been fair. Hard to call it a domination by Mayweather - he didn't really hurt DLH down at all, where DLH was the only one who showed that he had a chance to take over the fight.

More importantly for boxing, I think this pretty much guarantees that no one will buy PPV for the 'best pound-for-pound fighter' on his own. He's a very good boxer, but nobody pays $50-65 to watch excellent defense and counterpunching that doesn't appear to slow down the other guy. He's just not a dominator, and usually against lesser competition at that - and that's not what people want to see for the money.

I look forward to his many free appearances on HBO, though.

― milo z, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

'IF HE DIES...HE DIES.'

― deeznuts, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

kellerman is a douchebag: discuss

― cankles, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

i was right about it not being as good as 24/7 tho. you guys gotta check that out if you havent seen it already, it's amaaaazing. floyd's crazy dad turned him into the fucking terminator but he displays so much vulnerability and frustration when talking about his childhood that it's a lot easier to identify with him than oscar. at the same time he (and the show) plays up the bad guy thing in the most ridic/hilar ways, like it'll have shots of oscar with his wife and kids and dogs and then it'll cut to floyd talking shit abt him in his gold-plated mansion while hanging out with 50 cent (who is clearly drunk and also is RIDING A SEGWAY AROUND INSIDE HIS PERSONAL BARBERSHOP) and getting a haircut by some indentured servant.

― cankles, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

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To be fair Mayweather hit De La Hoya with that one big right in the fifth was it? that really rocked him.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

is there seriously a thread for the kentucky derby but not this??

lol my thread was basically a monologue

p.s. the derby fuckin ruled this year, street sense is 4 eels

― dmr, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. "four eels" joke = A++++

Aw now I feel dumb - I thought he was saying Tombot must be living under a rock :(

― Mark C, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

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