Mayweather / Pacman fight
 

PPV way too far into "gouge 'em 'til it hurts" territory for me, but this UK radio site will be carrying a live audiocast:

[url]http://talksport.com/radioplayer/live/[/url]

[My pedestrian prediction: Floyd by UD ... but I hope something more interesting happens. :)]

I love the Barclay's Premier League broadcast commercial that makes sport of Americans.

(thanks for the link btw)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401559]PPV way too far into "gouge 'em 'til it hurts" territory for me, but this UK radio site will be carrying a live audiocast:

[url]http://talksport.com/radioplayer/live/[/url]

[My pedestrian prediction: Floyd by UD ... but I hope something more interesting happens. :)][/QUOTE]Hmm. Boxing. The only sport known to me where the aim is to give your opponent brain damage.

Did someone win, by the way, or ws it a draw?

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The winner was Mayweather.

Regards,
Matt

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The winner was Mayweather.

Regards,
Matt[/QUOTE]I suspect your irony detector needs recalibrating.

[QUOTE=xilman;401641]Hmm. Boxing. The only sport known to me where the aim is to give your opponent brain damage.[/QUOTE]

No, no - you confuse 'one extremely common strategy' with 'the aim'. Interestingly, bad as boxing is in that regard, American-style football may well be worse, and the number of participants there is far higher. (But that may well be changing, as the NFL no longer controls the scientific narrative and the magnitude of the risk becomes clearer.)

I was right to skip the PPV, BTW - PBF won, but [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/sports/mayweather-wins-fight-preens-and-is-booed.html?ref=sports&_r=0]not in the hearts and minds department[/url].

Paul, you needn't worry too much - pay-per-view greed has pretty much ruined boxing as a front-page sport; the number of potential victims continues to dwindle.

[QUOTE=xilman;401641]Hmm. Boxing. The only sport known to me where the aim is to give your opponent brain damage.[/QUOTE]
Hm... I thought that such a sport was "being member to mersenneforum"... :shock: :razz:

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401724]No, no - you confuse 'one extremely common strategy' with 'the aim'.[/QUOTE]It is abundantly clear that I don't really understand boxing but I thought that the most effective and mostly highly regarded method of winning is to "knock out" your opponent. Rendering someone unconscious by repeatedly battering their head is surely giving them brain-damage, is it not?

[QUOTE=xilman;401641]Hmm. Boxing. The only sport known to me where the aim is to give your opponent brain damage.

Did someone win, by the way, or ws it a draw?[/QUOTE]

I thought that existing brain damage was a pre-requisite for participation.......

[QUOTE=xilman;401746]It is abundantly clear that I don't really understand boxing but I thought that the most effective and mostly highly regarded method of winning is to "knock out" your opponent. Rendering someone unconscious by repeatedly battering their head is surely giving them brain-damage, is it not?[/QUOTE]

A TKO is more or less anything that causes a fighter to be unable to continue - exhaustion, injury (unless caused by deliberate foul) or blows not-to-the-head also suffice. The 'T' distinguishes knockout not-via-punches from those via. Some of the most impressive KOs I have seen were by way of a body shot. Some well-known fighters have made a withering body attack their specialty, e.g. (active in the 80s/90s) Mike "the bodysnatcher" McCallum.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401789]A TKO is more or less anything that causes a fighter to be unable to continue - exhaustion, injury (unless caused by deliberate foul) or blows not-to-the-head also suffice. The 'T' distinguishes knockout not-via-punches from those via. Some of the most impressive KOs I have seen were by way of a body shot. Some well-known fighters have made a withering body attack their specialty, e.g. (active in the 80s/90s) Mike "the bodysnatcher" McCallum.[/QUOTE]
Well it's good to know that attacking a shock absorbing enclosure with enough force to bruise the protected contents is not the only way to win. But I never enjoyed The Three Stooge's implied eye poking and nose wrenching or the gamut of implied attacks of television marketed wrestling entertainment. Everyone has their own worldview and real or implied harm is not an attraction for me. I stopped trying to see what other people were enjoying in it when that one boxer bit off the other boxer's ear.