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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1226)	11/12/2000 11:43:10 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

Hey man, Welcome back, hope it was fun for you and the crew. I don't know what it is about the guys on "OZ," but I've seen just about all the major characters except for "Tobias Beecher" and "Vern Schillinger" at boxing matches over the course of the past 2 years or so, LOL. Clay-Bey vs. Etienne was a great, great boxing match, one of the best of 2000, I'd venture. But for their sizes and faces, a few times I swore I was watching Ali-Frasier, with the rapid pace of heavy punches and, in particular, Larry Clay-Bey's rope-a-dope/possum deal. Although it's no secret that my favorite prospect and pick for heavyweight heir is Clifford Etienne, my ears are going to perk up from now on when I hear of upcoming Clay-Bey fights. He's a tough, quick and heavy puncher who was only marginally outclassed by my man the Rhino, and that coming off a two year (?) hiatus. It's too bad that you had to sit through a snoozer like Tua-Lewis. As I mentioned - which you'll see as you wade through my barrage of post-fight messages - I find it hard to think of a worse heavyweight championship fight in recent history. I was far more disappointed with Tua than I was with Lewis; they're his belts, and his job, if you will, is to protect them, and not necessarily - however nice it would be - to put on a show. Tua, on the other hand, showed no sense of urgency - especially for a guy crowing about his "destiny" for the last two months - and indeed, looked less like the monster that disposed of Maskaev and Rahman than he did a more compact, and decidedly less active, single-punch version of Franz Botha. LPS5