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F--- boxing

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by anonymousprick, Sep 20, 2009.

  1. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Them change that. I’ll buy the first copy of your book. I bet it will well sourced.
     
  2. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

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  3. Carlkolchak

    Carlkolchak Member

    Criminals very rarely ever confess. Like steroid cheats, even when caught red handed they still deny.

    Do you think any fight fixer will ever confess? No. So investigative journalists with some sense of critical thinking have to try.

    For example look at Foreman vs Moorer. Moorer had less charisma than Liston and drew nothing on his own. Foreman was the cash cow. Moorer was winning easy. All the sudden Moorer gets hit and falls like he was shot. Don't you find it suspicious that Moorer did not demand an immediate rematch to save face? Moorer later got another title shot vs one of the stripped belts vs Botha.

    But if you think this fight was on the level because no one confessed, good for you!
     
  4. Carlkolchak

    Carlkolchak Member

    Do you think any pedophile on the epstein island flight logs is going to confess? And then tell the world what went on in those underground rooms and tunnels underneath the temple?

    Or will investigative journalists with critical thinking have to solve the secret mystery?
     
  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    bloop critical thinking bloop
     
  6. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Vegas is complicit in all these fixed fights, right?
     
  7. Carlkolchak

    Carlkolchak Member

    Can't answer that. Sometimes they are, like the Floyd vs Pacquiao fight. Would not let Pac take a legal painkiller for his shoulder the day of fight and covered up Floyd taking an illegal IV the day before fight until it became known 3 weeks after the fight. Surely Floyd and Haymon bought the decision, Floyd arrogantly bragged many times to the media "I own Vegas." He also bragged many times "God won't let me lose." He was clearly a protected fighter. Fixes can happen anywhere. Ali vs Liston fights were in Lewiston, Maine and Miami, FL.

    Fixes have many ways to execute. Only one guy knows, they both know, the judges are bought, the referee is bought (quick stoppage), the loser gets rewarded with a percentage of the winner's future fights (Louis-Braddock, this is well known part of boxing history). Boxing and tennis are obviously the easiest sports to fix.

    Heard rumors about magnetized golf balls but can't confirm :)
     
  8. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    If Moorer defeated Foreman and kept his title for another 1 1/2-2 years, he could have commanded $30 million or more as the undefeated undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in a fight against Mike Tyson.

    How can anyone make it worth his while to pass that up?
     
  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I'm not talking the athletic commission, I am talking about the casinos. They know all about these fixed fights, were happy to make Moorer a 3-1 favourite knowing Foreman would knock him out?
     
  10. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

  11. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Do they have to confess? You have all the information that you need, sounds like you have sources and have verified the information, right?
     
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  12. Carlkolchak

    Carlkolchak Member

    Then why didn't Moorer or his manager/promoter demand a rematch with Foreman? It's a fact they did not.
     
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