Boxing Inspiration
December 29th, 2009
By Michael Taylor: Since starting watching boxing just over a year ago, I have finally found a sport I love. I tried football and rugby but boxing tops them both. I haven’t been into boxing very long; I first started watching it when Amir Khan used to be on ITV, then the first real big event I watched was Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton. Last year was when I really started to enjoy the sport, just before the fight between Antonio Margarito vs Miguel Cotto.
Other fights I have enjoyed since watching boxing include, Manny Pacquiao vs De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto, and one of my favourites Juan Manuel Marquez vs Juan Diaz. Since Setanta Sports dropped out I haven’t been able to watch any big live fights.
Being able to watch the prime Manny Pacquiao is a great honour and also being able to see Floyd Mayweather and other top fighters. Seeing Freddie Roach train Manny Pacquiao into a superstar and seeing him transform Amir Khan from when I started watching Amir.
Ricky Hatton is one of my favourite fighters, being British he was the biggest boxing name I knew when I first got into boxing, but I have become a huge fan of David Haye. All other fighters I like as well, there is no fighter I dislike or like more than each other, so I rarely have a favourite in a fight.
Also I have seen almost the end of Roy Jones Jr’s career and the comeback of Shane Mosley and David Haye winning the World Heavyweight title. Thank you for listening to my first article about how boxing has inspired me.
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jealousy,
Are you lost?
Check the main page of this website. There is a story by Scott Gilford: “Roy Jones Jr. takes Pacquiao’s side about the blood tests”.
There is like two hundred or so, of you nutters in there.
Please go and stay there.
OMG stan j, wtf are you talking about? Restore credibility? FFS has pacman ever tested positive ever, his whole entire career? Is pacman even smart enough to know what steroids are? LOL you must be out of your freaking mind. If in your mind pac has lost his cred then you are not a pure boxing fan. You are a hater. You sir are jumping up and down at whats happening and what the mayweather camp is spouting out. Who are the people who are supposedly “suspecting” pacquiao is on something? The one who started is???? Thats right floyd mayweather sr. thats after the Cotto fight. Arent you even considering that he might be even a tinsy inwinsy bit miffed at pac and roach cause his boy got KTFOd? Hmmm who else? oh thats right Paulie Malignaggi who was like “He might be on “something”, i dont know, maybe?”
Kostya Tszyu was good.
Did you see him knocking out Juda?
Who is greater, Pacman or Floyd jr.?
Answer: Pacman by a mile. Boxing Writers Association Of America Fighter Of The Year 2006, 2008 and most likely 2009. Fighter O f The Year Of ESPN,Sports Illustrated and Ring Magazine. Fighter OF The Decade of ESPN, Sports Illustrated and HBO. Now do you supposed to get these kinds of awards if you are fighting Floyd Jr.’s fights?
Williams-Margarito was quite interesting, margarito starting slow as usual but unfortunately running out of time.
Michael Katsidis vs Graham Earl was a good one. it was the first time i had seen katsidis he was impressive. And Earl earned my respect in that fight.
@ fight doctor
The problem is there isn’t any good ‘brotha’ out there worth manny’s atg level of talent…
Berto was actually beaten up hard by Collazo in January 09
Mosley is roided and still lost to Cotto
Clottey and Judah were beaten by Cotto
Ur African Bro, Ledwaba wuz retired by Pacman
Jermain Taylor is a victim of assault and battery everytimes he gets in the ring
PBF retired when Pac wuz rising through the rank so he could duck fighters that Cotto took on…he also retired to cycle his body with steroid, epogen, growth hormone, platelet stimulating factors, ilgf i and ii to enhance healing and rejuvenate…his frame and muscle now is bigger than two years ago but 18 months off is more than enough time to wash off these exogenous growth factors and ped from your system…it would be detectable in old hair growing at time of usage but why do you think he shaves off all his hair, arm pits and all…if any one is using, its pbf during that lay off period…
and what happened to all the brothas in the heavy weight divisions, governed now by the likes of the klitschkos, eastern europeans, russians…the closest to a brotha is the tuaman, who’s actally more southeast asian islander than a slick black fellow…
nah, man, pacman is the closest negrito brotha you’re gonna have for a while so you better claim him as he is leaving a trail of hurt, devastation, early retirements and introspective self reassessments the likes we won’t ever see again for a very long time…
the fight doctor = Doughbag.
Manny is scared of no one.
Manny has ducked no one.
Mayweather ducked, Casamayor, Tszyu, Margarito, Mosley, Williams, I can go on and on here.
Mayweather has made a career of beating up smaller opponents or over the hill opponents.
Any argument you can make against Manny can be made twice as badly against Mayweather. I hope they do fight just so people like you can be shut the f*ck up!!!
igoy what do you mean if manny and floyd set aside their differences, there is nothing to set aside mate, the bottom line is for manny to restore credibility and honesty and accept the random tests, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that
safe boxer, i’ve watched 3 of his fights, de la hoya, hatton and marquez, and yes they are boring, especially marquez, at least de la hoya made a fight out of there fight
Don’t watch any of Floyd’s fight.. it will bore you to death and you would not enjoy boxing anymore.
watch the 80′s fights. Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Hearns.
I’ve never watched the Morales-Pacquiao trilogy or the Gatti-Ward trilogy, i’ll try to find them on youtube or get the series out of boxingmonthly magazine
i enjoyed the Williams-Margarito fight too and both Marquez-Pacquiao fights.
ah ye mate i’ve got the Hatton-Tszyu fight on dvd and i think mosley willwin too.
ant i have watched williams-martinez great fight wasn’t it and thanks i have bought some fights just catching up with myself can’t wait for Berto-Mosley
yes my name is michael taylor but i write with peter wells the other writer, we work together see. same computer, he was the one who introduced me to the website
Peter – Post all you want, its all good. I’m glad to here of people dicovering and enjoying boxing. But I’m a bit confussed, above it says the authors name is Michael Taylor. Either or, Welcome to the greatest sport on earth!
Cheers!
Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo, the first one.
oh what a fight!
cheers ant banks, i put this article on just to introduce myself and talk about my story about boxing.
thanks guys, have any of you seen the vazquez-marquez trilogy thats another great one i like
unfortunately it looks like it will only be urine tests still, rather than blood tests….. what a grand gesture but a big waste of time.
The Nevada Boxing Commission has made the order
News Flash, both boxers are required to take a drugs test within the next 48 hours……
good article
as for me, i particularly liked the first Pacquiao v. Morales fight. Pacquiao lost that fight but he was very gallant. Morales was the superior boxer at that time but Pacquiao was a ruthless slugger. nice article.
@ paul
If you have over 50 amateur bouts under your belt then feel free to write an article…. im sure a lot of people would value your opinion and the stories of your experiences inside the ring. However, is there really any need to call someone an idiot for writing a very simple article explaining how much they like boxing? This site is not officially a joke, its only people like you that threaten sites like this.
ive only been a boxing fan for a couple of years hatton got me hooked when i first watched him now like yourself i try going back in time watchin other boxers go at it.One of the best ive seen so far is hearns vs hagler and like mr rich says gatti vs ward im from the uk i dont base my opinions on what race country religion or back ground a fighter comes from i respect them all as individuals its a great sport but i feel there is too much politics involved and cherry picking i dont know if this happened back in the day maybe some older boxing fans could shed some light on this please.??????
Dont worry mate no one who writes an article on this site knows what there talking about. Its idiots like you who post on this site, when youve got readers who have had over 50 ammature fights and been following the sport since they were 8 years old, who must know nothing. This site is officially a joke.
Way to go! Boxing’s really great! Hope we’ll see another classic if Floyd and Manny sets aside their ego.
The first fight between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor is one of my all time favorites if you haven’t seen it.
If you want to see an exciting fight watch Arturo Gatti vs Mickey Ward…. they had 3 fights, all 3 were very very entertaining….you will not find a more inspiration anywhere. Hope you watch and enjoy.
Here is a link to just one round of one of their fights just in case you want a little sample lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3bFrP8-HM
cotto is my favorite fighter, his fight with concreto was awesome!