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SmackDaddy
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Whatever happened to Friday Night Fights? There was a time when boxing was, as strange as it seems, an accepted sport. In fact, it doesn’t seem that long ago (depending upon the age of my fellow smackers) that guys like Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, and Larry Holmes graced our HBO sets with one eye swollen shut and missing teeth. These guys were hungry, they bled in the ring, and most went 15 rounds instead of 12 (thank you very much, Duk Koo Kim!).
We all know that the sport is rigged and as dirty as Wolverine’s tighty-whities, but it never mattered. We know that the IBF is the biggest joke of all time, but we watch the title fights anyway. We know that most of the heavyweights are more akin to circus acts than boxers (did Big Daddy REALLY think he’d be happy in the Marine Corps?!?). But we watch... we have faith! We even subscribed to Showtime!
I’ll tell ya what happened- promoters! Don King ruined the sport. Once Tyson went off the rails and hopped into bed with King, that was the beginning of the end. Now we as fans have to shell out $59.95 to see half-baked thrice-retired wannbes take another opportunity to “prove to the world” that they are legit. We all know (deep down) that they just need an easy pay-day to get themselves out of crippling debt. But we continue to fall for it and often, like the fat chick that we met last Friday night, we say to ourselves, “it seemed like a good idea at the time!”
I'm here to tell ya, People: Wake Up! Save your time and money.
Boxing is D-O-N-E!
