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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science
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To: LPS5 who wrote (1157)11/5/2000 4:33:24 PM
From: mr.mark  Read Replies (2) of 10489
 
LPS5,

so, were you at the garden for the mosley-diaz fight? did you say third row seats? man, was there like some woman screaming hysterically throughout the entire mosley fight? it was very distracting to me as a television viewer. i could only cringe at the thought of being in the same arena with whoever was doing that incessant screaming. it sounded like one of those fighter's mothers we sometimes see in the audience who flip out and need to be slapped with a frozen trout.

anyway, mosley was very impressive. watching him makes me think that there really ought to be a way of handicapping these fights like they do horses. seriously. mosley is so far superior in hand speed that he can outclass almost anyone. horseracing takes this sort of thing into account, and consequently we never see $8,000 claimers running against grade III stakes horses. never see 2 year olds against 9 year olds. one turn horses usually run against one turn horses, and two turn against two turn. non-winners of three races might get 5 pound weight allowances. winners have to pack more weight. and after all these attempts to even things out, we still get to see nice competitive races.

but boxing just divides it up into weight classes and says there you go. if racing was set up like boxing, you'd have horses (no doubt named 'sugar' <g>) winning by 40 lengths.

just a thought.

:)

mark
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