Hey there fight fans and underdogs everywhere, my name is Geovanny and I am a major boxing fan, lover of life, observer of the human condition, both spectator and participant of the human race. I will be using this blog to focus on this little sport that I love called BOXING. I have a fantasy that I want to make reality and that is to bring boxing back to its former prominence by putting it back into the mainstream consciousness of sports where it belongs. For far too long it has taken a back seat to other games that have been labeled sports by major sports media.I'm talking about golf, poker, pool/billiards, etc., these activities are covered far more extensively than boxing and this just shouldnt be. It drives me nuts to no end when a so called sports expert refers to Tiger Woods as a 'warrior' for having braved the hot sun to 'battle' out a win while ignoring Arturo Gatti and Mickey Ward fighting for their life under the hot lights, or Larry Holmes going 15 rounds to win his first championship with a torn bicep, or Muhammad Ali swallowing a pint of his own blood due to a broken jaw and still finishing his 15 round fight with Ken Norton, Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez spilling their blood in their trilogy, and Manny Pacquiao rampaging through men far bigger than he. Golfers get driven by golf cart and their gear is carried by a caddy. Golfers...warriors? Please. On occasion I will also use this blog to expound on my views in general but for the most part it will be used to promote the sport of boxing. I will post articles reviewing fights, promoting upcoming fights and hopefully interviews with boxing people. So I think the best way to begin is with my review of boxing in 2009.
This is great! I don't usually find boxing interesting, but you really make it a story! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteGeo, As a true boxing enthusiast not sure if you ever saw the movie Cinderella Man if so what did you think about it?
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you Sunstar, I'll try to maintain that standard for you each and every time. Keep checking me out as there will be more to tell....
ReplyDeleteThis is a response to the question posed by reader 'A' about the movie Cinderella Man. I did see that movie and I enjoyed it a lot. I really liked Paul Giamatti's character as the manager/trainer and thought Russell Crowe did a good job with the action scenes. My only knock on the film is the potrayal of the movie's villain Max Baer as a guy who enjoyed his notoriety of being a boxer who has killed other fighters in the ring. Max Baer's family fought the producers of the film on this issue and by all accounts, Max Baer was a happy go lucky type of guy who would not take joy over the fact that he ended someone's life. The opposite is the norm in boxing, boxing death's have usually produced the end of the careers of the victors of those fights and even the referees and ringside doctors involved because they get gripped in the after trauma produced by such a tragedy. There has never been any written reports of any boxer taking joy and bragging about killing another boxer. Other than that it was a fine film.
ReplyDeleteI like this! Nice work writing those articles. I really appreciate the way you worded this out to make it sounds so appeal and entertaining! Thanks!
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