BOXING SCORING

Canelo-v-Jacobs

The tag line for this picture was that the scorecards proved that Canelo built an early lead, my tag line would have been “How the F**k could these scorecards be so different”.

The one thing that I got from these scorecards is that something is definitely off. There is something wrong here, when three capable judges disagree so much. They disagreed on 5 out of the 12 rounds. They disagreed on over 42% of the fight. How can you get a clear decision when that happens. That was a statement, not a question, ergo the absence of a question mark. That is a failing grade in any other event on this planet. The problem is not the judges, it’s the commission. They haven’t done enough to evolve to settle these problems. Boxing is the only sport that has not tried to figure out ways to improve these disparities. I can give a few right off the top of my head

  1. Put the judges at a better vantage point. They should be at the same level as the fighters or higher. When the fighters are at the corner further away from a particular judge, the nuance of slip and counter are harder to realize when you are looking up. They are lot easier to notice when you are viewing down. I know that this might obstruct some of the fans but that’s why you have the jumbotrons for the spectators. We prefer that anyway
  2. Make all decision fights, especially title bouts, provisional decisions until confirmation by the same three judges and three separate judges.. Meaning that that all decision fights would be reviewed by a panel afterwards to confirm. Can’t tell you how many times I watched a fight on TV, from a better vantage point then the judges, and wondered what the f**k (that stands for fuck) were these judges viewing. This gives a cushion to change a bad decision without having to do the silly appeal stuff and give the appearance of the sport being less fixed for the superstars, ahem, clearing my throat, the Byrd decision in the first GGG v Canelo fight is a great example why you should implement that rule, you can even call it the Byrd rule. Don’t mean to be to harsh on the lady but she got it wrong and most likely because of her vantage point.

These are just two thoughts off the top of my head. Whatever they come up with, I’m sure would be better than the current 57.5% grade that they got on this fight. One thing is for sure, they have to do something. First of all, the 7th and 10th rounds were definitely Jacobs rounds, not doubt about it. If you go by Moretti’s scorecard for the last two frames and you scored the 7th and 10th the right way, not doubters for Jacobs, then Jacobs is the victor. My scorecard is on an earlier post, but I had the advantage of replaying the fight and confirming the right call, which in my opinion was a draw. Come on boxing, even slow ass baseball has instant replay and a replay home office to review calls. You need to evolve with the times and figure out a better way to make the sport a little less controversial and a little more simpatico, what a funny word…. simpatico, anyway back to the point, fix it. Come on Nevada, you are suppose to be the superstars and megastars of boxing super bouts, because if New York does it before you, if they become boxing innovators before you, you will be in second place before you can say supercalifragislisticexpialadocious and that would be atrocious.

NY METS! NY METS! NY METS!

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YESSSS!! The Mets are back baby! They tie it in the 9th with a home run, take the lead with heads up inside out hitting to the opposite direction in the 18th and their bullpen blows it in the bottom of the frame to go under .500 for the year. I’m so proud of these guys. Their consistency of doing the same thing year after year is awesome. There is no other team that can do what they do and how they do it. Fan for life….. I’m not being sarcastic, which might be the funnier thing. I’m just proud that they tied it and then took the lead but the weak spot has always been the bullpen after we take the lead. It could have been Clemens, Randy Johnson, Tom Seaver pitching that frame, we are just cursed for now. Still my team.

Jacobs v Alvarez

Canelo v jacobs

This was an amazing fight. I watched the fight again to make sure I was not mistaken. It comes down to the 11th round. If you gave Jacobs the 11th, then Jacobs won the fight, if you gave Canelo the 11th, then it was a draw. Jacobs didn’t lose but he is from New York, where getting robbed is a daily occurrence. Some notes from this fight. Jacobs can wallop but you’re not knocking down a concrete wall, and Canelo is as tough as the wall Trump wants to build. If you put a bunch of Canelos on the southern border you wouldn’t be able to get a tank through. That guy has a Thanos chin. Jacob’s shots were thudding, at least that’s what it sounded like but when you hit a concrete wall, that’s the sounds you are going to get. It was close but Jacobs clearly won 6 rounds. The 9 – 3 combo couldn’t miss. That’s the left hook to the body and then back to the head. Every time he through it, they landed. But god damn, what is Canelo’s head made of? It was an amazing fight, I had it a draw.

I am reading that some people found this fight boring. I thought it was a great fight. The difference in the top three middle weights is so minimal that either one can win on any given night. Breaking down the fight

Round 1 – Jacobs (close but clearly)

Round 2 – Jacobs (clearly)

Round 3 – Canelo

Round 4 – Canelo

Round 5 – Jacobs

Round 6 – Canelo

Round 7 – Jacobs

Round 8 – Canelo

Round 9 – Jacobs

Round 10 – Jacobs

Round 11 – Canelo (by a smidge)

Round 12 – Canelo

There’s people that were giving the early rounds to Canelo, They were wrong. Jacobs was the clear winner of the first two. There was a close round somewhere in there, I think it was the 4th or 6th that could have gone either way but I gave it to Canelo because the man rarely takes a step backwards. I thought the DAZN announcers were pretty good but I think that they were confused on which one was Canelo and which one was Jacobs because their scorecard might have been almost opposite of mine. I think they gave the 8th to Jacobs which might have been Canelo’s best round. I see a huge problem with DAZN taking over boxing and protecting their fighters on close fights.

I THANK GOD FOR BOXING

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I would like to share a story of why everyone should do boxing.

I have trained in boxing, on and off, for the past thirty odd years. Have never been good enough to really do anything with it financially speaking, but it has kept me in good shape. When I severely sprained my ankle while working in the border Patrol, I stood on one leg and and a leg with an air cast and used boxing drills to keep me in shape. As soon as I was cleared to run again, something that I used to love to do, I was able to run down a group of illegal citizens that had crossed. Chasing them down for a little less than a mile, carrying all my equipment , the day after I was cleared to return to work. Boxing is an amazing sport that fine tunes your body. What it does mostly, it refines your reflexes. It makes them quicker and steady.

This was never more apparent when my son, at the age of 8, for some reason decided to cross the street running while an SUV had just accelerated at full speed to beat a light. I had just turned my head to the right to look for oncoming traffic when I caught my son, who was to my left, through the corner of my eye, racing into the middle of the street. Out of nowhere, my left hand, my best hand, I used to throw a mean and quick left hook, even though I’m righty, reached out and grabbed him and pulled him back. The SUV was literally, not figuratively, right upon him. I pulled him back and out of the way. All I can think is that if my son gotten hit that day, I would have never been able to live with myself. It would have devastated me. My son apologized and he knew better. I have been teaching him to the cross the street since he was 5. I don’t know what got into his head, ear or eye.

I thank boxing, it literally saved my son’s life. In a day and age where kids are getting thrown into rivers and off third floor mall balconies, the world makes a little less sense.

HYPNO-RAPE

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An Ohio lawyer hypnotized six female clients and then molested them. Now he’s going to prison.

The use of hypnotism, or any other outside method, to influence another person to have sex with you is wrong, and criminal. If you didn’t know that, then there is something wrong with your moral compass. The unsuspecting women this individual preyed on will never be the same and this selfish, obviously desperate and psychopathic person could not tell the difference between right and wrong. Does anyone feel that using any method, other than your personality and what the lord or evolution bestowed on you, to start a romantic relationship, is right, especially on an unsuspecting person? These individuals did not know what was happening to them or why it was happening, but he did. Michael Fine was well aware of what he was doing, even if his victims did not. Now this individual is going to jail for 12 years, I don’t think that is enough, but one of his victims said that they were serving a life sentence, so why shouldn’t he.

When a person is that pathetic that they must resort to extreme methods to control their unwitting victims just for sex, then that person is capable of doing anything to anyone at anytime. Michael is an extremely flawed human being, given the opportunity to hypnotize someone and say or do anything, he chose to have or make the person have sex with him instead of putting the person at ease or imbeding  some kind of wisdom or kind thought.

The problem is that Michael Fine, and people like him, don’t think they are doing anything wrong. They think it is, well, ironically and apropos, perfectly fine. It makes me think of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution. There is a reason why people like Michael can’t procreate and no woman would sleep with him, I’m sure the same reason why he had to resort to such methods in the first place, it’s because either evolution or God wants him gone and his demonic (if you believe in God) or defective genes (if you are an evolutionist) were meant to disappear from the planet so it won’t infect another human being.

The problem with Michael and every person like him is that they reason that the woman wants it or that they are promiscuous or that something in their past warrants this happening to them or that they liked it because they feel themselves some kind of blessing that must share it with every woman. This is the common tale of every person that rapes another. They are the same tired excuses that are given repeatedly in their defense prior to be sentenced to jail. They say it like it excuses their actions.

The true test of a person is when you have the ability to do anything to a person and you seemingly won’t face any consequences, what will you do?

So, what will you do?

WTF!

blue blood

My feet were extremely dry, cracked and started to bleed. The next thing that occurred made me feel like an avatar. My socks were bloodied with blue blood. This is caused seemingly by a toxic amount of medicine that doesn’t allow iron to be absorbed. The other thing is your liver and or spleen is having some major issues. The odd part about it was I wasn’t taking any medications at the time.

REPARATIONS

reparations

Slavery is an anchor on the legacy of this country. I understand that reparations in the form of money might be difficult to achieve. I opine that the worst part of slavery now is what it has done to the ability to create equality around the country. While money might not be available, there are other things that might be available. To the relatives of people that were slaves in this country there might be services that could make up for the horrendous treatment of their relatives. Free tuition to colleges that they qualify for would be my favorite. That’s just an idea. Another would be interest free Small Business Loans to legitimate business plans with the possibility of loan forgiveness if the business was an earnest attempt at opening a business that employs people. I know some people might mock my ideas but unless you throw some different solutions you may never get the answer the relatives of people that were in bondage deserve. These two ideas, which I’m sure smarter people will have better solutions, would bring empowerment and equality. I’m sure I’ll have critics.

WTF! PIZZA DELIVERY

WTF

When I was in the military, I used to work as an SP (Security Police), that’s what the Air Force calls Military Police. While at work, I heard of a story about a pizza hut delivery person that delivered pizza to one of our dorm buildings, wasn’t quite military housing but it was better than a college campus. That delivery person would be arrested several hours later for ejaculating onto a pizza while he was HIV positive. The call came into our unit which was quickly referred to the local police and prosecutor’s office. How did the ladies find out? They called to say what a great job and how hospitable the delivery person was. He felt so guilty that he told them what he did. Names won’t be used, mainly because I don’t remember them and to save anyone any embarrassment. That individual, I’m gathering, was tried and found guilty of his crime. All I could say at the time was WTF! Oddly enough, not the worst story I heard while in the military. Big thanks for the reminder.

THE SCHOOL SCAM STUFF! HOW BAD WAS IT REALLY?

scam

So, I’m going over this situation in my head. At first I thought it wasn’t too bad and why are they making such a big deal about it. Then the outrage poured in and I felt like I was on the wrong side of this situation and I jumped on the band wagon on how horrible it is but quietly, not posting anything just yet. When they started saying that they took spots from people that deserved to be there, taking athletic scholarships away from athletes of poor or modest means that wouldn’t otherwise be there, then the outrage seemed fitting. But did they? Did they do that or did they pay for an extra scholarship? The report was very thorough by the media outlets but none said that a student was turned away due to this booster type admittance. I know that the parents, all rich, gave money to different outlets, some to the athletic division to where their child was faking their athletic prowess. What did they do with that money? Did they pocket it, buy equipment or did they use it for another scholarship? It makes a crap load of difference because if they used that money to hand out another scholarship to a person in need, then their should be no outrage. Maybe the thought of rich parents using their influence and wealth to get their kids into a school deserves some kind of finger wagging but that has been going on since John Adams put junior into Harvard. That’s nothing new and I would only feel outrage if someone was hurt in the process but if their contribution to put their “not as smart as needed to get into that school” kid actually helped another deserving student get into that school, then the only people that should be punished is the schemers, the people that created this devious plan to line their pockets with money, not the people that would ultimately contribute to the bettering of the school. Scholarships are not based on a certain number, they’re based on amount of money available to hand out for scholarships, I’m supposing? Did they even get scholarships or did they pay full tuition? Did they actually take away a slot? I don’t think they did. I mean, that athletic division is still going to fill the required amount of people needed, aren’t they? And let’s be honest, those kids aren’t going to do a damn thing with that education anyway. If they didn’t have the smarts to get in then I’m pretty sure none are becoming class president or are reaching cum laude status. The parents did, though, donate money to actually help poorer students if the pay offs went into the program. For right now, I’m going to reserve judgement. I’m off that shaming bandwagon. I’ll wait and see what happened to those contributions and see if those coaches are driving Bentley’s or did they buy new equipment or give out an extra scholarship? There is no harm, if no one was harmed, right? I could be wrong. I know it’s sexy to prosecute big names but is it deserving? If no one was hurt and, to boot, that athletic department got money to better their equipment for the kids that are there on scholarship, then I don’t think that the outrage is deserved. Not to say the parent’s weren’t wrong but the bad guy here is the schemers who got rich off of the love the parents had for their kids, of course I’m assuming they loved their kids and weren’t putting them in those schools so they could get out of the house.

And in breaking news, a shit load of people were shot in Chicago, no one cares, except the people from and in Chicago. We should be helping law enforcement efforts there.