Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: The 5/2 Dud Will Help Cotto-Canelo PPV

[MisanthropicNY]

I actually thought Mayweather vs Pacquiao was an entertaining chess match..Mayweather made the 12th round super boring though as he just ran and many still gave him the round... just like De La Hoya won the 12th against Trinidad on one of the scorecards for pure running...

The only issue with boxing is that runners are rewarded way too much..they should have to knock down or hurt the opponent or else lose the round.. that would make boxing much more exciting and less capricious to score..

[Drunken Cat]

Shut the fck up clown the golden girl had 3 different quotes with 3 different points you dumb fck

and chill out with that uppity so intelligent poster swag you rockin lmaO you fckin lame you come off like jarvis from ironman

No need to attack me for being smarter than you, douche bag.

[Drunken Cat]

Lol

So when he's tweeting about Floyd, are those responses to press questions too?

I don't use twitter, and I don't care. Maybe he is obsessed, I was commenting based on my opinion on the article.

I really don't care at all about this sort of shit.

[Drunken Cat]

Damn $100 had you raging you broke fck lmaO is it that serious you fckin lame?!

Be embarrassed for that instead of the fight sucking you poor fck lmfaO!

Look at this alpha high roller over here.

He must be slanging rocks and pimping hoes out in Texas and just rolling in it, Boi!!

That, or he's a 15 year old kid posting on his parent's computer and doesn't know the value of a dollar.

Guessing on the latter.

[Drunken Cat]

People were able to get over the De La Hoya/Trinidad dud so I'm sure they'll get over Mayweather/Pacquiao.

Trinidad-ODLH wasn't as bad, PPV wasn't as developed, and the fight wasn't hyped up for 4 years.

Pretty sure this is not really comparable.

[St. Johns Gent]

BS Scene management, can we combine the daily salty DLH quotes with the daily "Mayweather and/or Pacquiao are ducking me" quotes from amir into one "article" ?

that's a great idea...i can't wait for this fight for that 155 bs title to be over with so all the de la hoya articles with annoying titles go away

[Cinci Champ]

You will always be an idiot !!!!

Your jr dearest was the boringest fighter ever BFE

boringest? thats not even a word lol u realize they said the same thing about ali right?

[BoxingIsGreat]

You're right about whose, easy mistake to make; not so much on effect.

While either would be acceptable, it is something a little ambiguous.

Actually, affect is better. Effect refers to the more concrete, whereas affect is more like 'influence'. Strictly speaking, effect is more of a scientific term, used in more clear cut and provable circumstance.

Hence, 'the effect of the chemical reaction.' It would be quite grammatically wrong to say 'you have a negative effect on me'.

In the case of the things you cite in your unnecessary tirade, either is quite acceptable.

Also no one comes to a boxing forum to read long essays. It took my like twenty years on my phone to delete all that stuff you wrote, whatever it was.

No.

He's totally right in his critique of the article's grammar. I notice that a lot too. You are the one who needs to polish on your grammar and comprehension.

"You have a negative effect on me" is correct.
"You have a negative affect on me" is NOT.

Nothing ambiguous about it at all. Relax and go back to grammar class, bro!

[AntonTheMeh]

am i the only one that thinks oscar has a vodoo mayweather doll at home that he sticks pins in?

he should get rid of it cause that **** obviously hasn't worked.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Steve Kim: please check your grammar.

"has had a negative affect"
should read EFFECT, not affect

"who's company is co-promoting"
Should read WHOSE not who's

"a positive affect for the career of Saul"
should read EFFECT, not affect

Also in the paragraph before last, you forgot closing your quote (I mean the paragraph that ends in "I don't know how many years."

Just some observations because I've noticed that, very frequently, articles on this great web site are written with pretty evident grammar errors and this may cause some mistaken words or expressions to spread out as correct by some people, because they have read them written like that by some writing professionals and of course they assume it is correct writing, yet it isn't.

So please do take notice of this.

Now, about the article itself, I would say that the only one to blame for that so called "super-fight" being such a "dud" was Mayweather Jr., because of his cowardly super-defensive "fighting" style, plus his illegal tricks such as excessively holding, but of course as usual he never got penalized for it, gosh not even a single warning from the referee.

If other so-called fighters use excessive holding at will as well, without ever getting penalized for it, then boxing in general will just get worse and worse. Why not for example, warn a fighter after every three clinches and then discount a point at the fourth, in the same round? I assure you that if measures like that were taken, boxing would become way less boring in the specific case of certain fighters that are really staining and ruining it by their nasty excessive-clinching tactics, but never ever get even warned about it by the referee, as if clinching was some sort of a defense technique, which of course it isn't. It is just pure cheating and staining what would otherwise be a fair and entertaining fight.

IMO it's really, really sad the fact that the "fighter" who has the records of highest PPV numbers in the history of boxing, happens to be Mayweather Jr. with such a horrible style of fighting which, aside form being extremely defensive and frankly cowardly, it also includes many illegal tricks that the referee never ever cares to penalize him for, including the already discussed excessive clinching. I am pretty sure that if he wasn't an American "fighter" he would have never ever had such incredibly high PPV numbers, but I guess there had to be SOMEONE replacing De la Hoya as the next boxing phenomenon, and Manny just couldn't be the one simply because he is not an American himself. Sad state of affairs in boxing, but very true. It is just my opinion. I always appreciate honest athletes who don't use tricks to win, and whose style of playing or in this case fighting, is viewer-friendly, and never ever cowardly. But, then again, to each their own of course. Some like it hot, some like it cold. Some like watching certain fighters because of how they fight, and some like watching others because they are their countrymen and/or because they pay attention to their "fighting record" way more than the way they actually fight.

Good job on the grammar part. I see many articles like that as well.
With the rest of your drivel, I could not relate to.