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The thing is people are attracted to colourful characters.....Tyson was a colourful character,so was Aaron Pryor and Whittaker.......but i bet apart from Alexis Arguello you couldnt even name another opponent Aaron Pryor ever fought without looking them up ?............Being a colourful character dont make you a great fighter,.....Aaron Pryor couldnt be mentioned in the same breath as Zale/Graziano before him or Mayweather/Paquiao today.......but we still remember his name.....we remember he was a coke head in and out of prison and his famous pointing of the glove before fights,he had a catchy
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You keep makng comparsons to footballers ...footballs a team sport,without 10 other players George Best would never have a European Cup medal.....wthout 10 others Pele would never have won the World Cup......Pele could have played badly and still been a world cup winner ! Thats what puts sports like boxing apart from others theres no room for bad performances or excuses its just you in there and if you dont perform for whatever reason its no excuse......as George Foreman once said after the Ali loss...." give me any excuse you want,my shoes were too tight,it was just him and me in there he
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No its not......Tyson was the younger man in his fight with Lewis.........being " washed up " or " mentally weak " has never been an excuse for greatness in sport with anyone apart from Mike Tyson !.......Why people refuse to look at the facts when judging Tysons boxing career i dont know,thats the trouble when the general public delve into an athletes private life it clouds their judgement of the person as a mere athlete......like i said before the ,s were an impressionable time for British boxing fans and he fitted the bill just perfect.
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Im not going to get into the Tyson debate......save to say at the wbc annual convention a few years back a poll had been running in the lead up to it what the boxing writers/journo,s/pundits etc thought the all time top 10 heavyweights were in order......the results were announced with Tyson not making the top 10,which i totally agree with. Witherspoon/Haye your probably right but then the only ,s heavyweight id put in all time top 10 is Holmes and the point was about the ,s producing the best fighters of all time......no way.
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Seems a bit daft to me.....ok not many people will take a dog out of a rescue for working purposes but in the event someone did they cant know the breeding to their own dog ............" we want you to want the dog not its breeding ".........how can anyone know a dog by a 10 minute visit.....most people decide on a breed then get to know the dog not get to know the dog then find out its breed...........all seems a bit arse upwards to me,but then in my opinion if it wasnt for the soft society we live in there wouldnt be a need for dog rescue centres at all,certainly not as many as there is any
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Would you also fancy Witherspoon/Tate/Tubbs against either a Klitchsko/ Lewis since or a Ron Lyle/Earnie Shavers before ?....i know i wouldnt.......you would fancy Spinks over Hopkins or Roy Jones ......your opinion and your entitled to it we all see fights different...........I liked them Spinks/Qawi/Muhammed fights but i accept Spinks was the shining light in a poor division and every fight he had at heavyweight was badly handpicked......Totally agree about Hagler,like i said those 4 ( Hagler Hearns Leonard Duran ) were the only true greats to come out the ,s hence it wasnt as great decade
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Thats a complete myth !..........apart from the Hagler/Leonard/Duran/Hearns series who else from the ,s could go down as an all time great of their division ?......maybe Benitez or Chavez at a push........for the higher weight divisions above middleweight it was probably the poorest era for the sport ever.......look at the heavyweight division,apart from Holmes at the start of the decade and Tyson towards the end it was filled with the awful era of Witherspoon/Tubbs/Tate/Weaver swapping the titles around for 1 fight at a time....at the lower weights you had Sanchez,Benitez,Chavez.....fair enou
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Cheeky f****r.....id bet my bollocks my hammers would beat Rangers/Celtic 7 out of every 10 times they played them at the moment....and the other 3 would be draws That said im just about to leave for the trip up the m1 for Notts Forest away .......come on you Irons !!
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Thanks very much ....its the basic technical jargon and what it all means i want to get to grips with......i guess like anything else practise will give improvements......but it helps if you first know what why and where.....cheers.
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Not your traditional brekkie but a damn fine combination.... In this order bottom to top....Toast,Layer of ham,Fried Egg,Beans,Melted Cheese.... Plum Tomato,s and Beans on the same plate....thats just wrong
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I brought up eye witness what ,you lost me a bit there chief..... Well if Walcotts stepfather was a famous fighter im sure it wouldnt be too difficult to look it up,but i wont spoil your fun your clearly dying to tell us .....but off the top of my head no i dont know who it was. Edited to say.....apparently there was a boxing poll done some years ago and Marciano/Walcott was voted the greatest ever knockout......not sure id agree as he simply beat him to the punch,but still some punch.
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Thats it.....i took 250 pictures and a grand total of 5 are average/good........most are either blurry,too dark, too far away or i plain missed .....could anyone recommend a simple to use but good quality camera ?....preferably that will fit in your pocket and not one with them massive great lenses..........im not after professional pictures,just decent quality and easy to use.
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...whats that mean ?
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Hearns/Duran is certainly up there with the best but for me the 2 greatest ko,s both involved Jersey Joe Walcott......number 1 would be his ko of Ezzard Charles ( to this day the best single punch ive ever seen ) and number 2 would be when he was ko,d by Marciano........ Being partial to a bodyshot id also put Tysons ko of Spinks up there,and also Roy Jones ko of Virgil Hill.
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Anyone know of a website or book available that will teach the basics of cameras and photography ? Ive just come back off a very interesting trip where i took a load of pics only to see they have all come out like a 7 year old took them !.....I often look at the pics on this site some of yous lads take,well you cant all be professionals.........where can i learn in a simple to understand,not too technical way,how to take a decent picture ?
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Just about sums up these idiots understanding of competition and proving truth. Been sent a few videos of these dogs........ ...in my opinion there only use would be in a curry !
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This is where im probably a touch obssessive ....and i accept not everyones like that......years ago when i bred dogs they were for my kennel and my kennel only....i felt my dogs were better than anyone elses so why would i want other people having as good as i had ?....if i wanted 2 pups from a breeding id raise the entire litter,make judgement at a sensible age then everything but the best 2 would be culled.....fortunately i didnt need money back to cover costs and the fact i trusted nobody apart from my own kennel mates meant culling was the way it had to be. This " selling off excess pup
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That old chestnut A hobby ceases to be a hobby when you have to get money back from it......if a man cant afford his hobbies he shouldnt be doing them,simple.
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Well apparently Celtic are still in Europe......the other mob fielded a few illegal players and it looks like their being turfed out....and Celtic to stay in........result.
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There was life before the internet ......how did newcomers manage then ?...or are we to believe every hunter on here over the age of 40 was born into it.......Like yourself i never came from a hunting background,far from it.....but having a great interest and passion in another type of dog led me into hunting via a few decent people.....and thats usually the way things work where one thing leads to another......for someone out of a city to suddenly pipe up and decide to get into hunting realistically is pretty rare it just dont normally work like that one hobby or interest,or one group of frie
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Surely theres no need to do away with the entire for sale section...........maybe it would make sense to just put a stop on the selling of livestock,simple.......very few genuine working dog folk would buy an animal from someone they didnt know or had been recommended to......so really its only there for people new to working dogs......and peddlars.
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Many young lads buy their first dog from the likes of this site. Without that they would find it very hard to get into the game and make the contacts that allow you the privelige of being gifted well bred pups. There are some genuine pups/dogs advertised on this site as well as the dealers shite. The way forward is to stay vigilant and not feel like a c**t asking the obvious questions on all for sale threads. Perhaps also a pinned thread giving advice to newbies when buying their first pup/dog on what to ask and best practice when a worker/pup is being rehomed. That said.....are we
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Wasnt meaning to piss on your fire their chief....just cant see the point struggling on to make something that might not be as good as whats already out there
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Its not a case of slating Scottish football.....what i slate is Scottish people who blame English football for the era Scottish football is going through at this moment.....ive been following sport long enough to know that form go,s in cycles......at this moment Scottish football is very poor,20 years ago it wasnt,whos to say in 10 years time it wont be strong again......it would be a bit rich from me to slate the game up there when the club i follow myself is going through a similar cycle at this moment......what always gets me is the way Scots continually bang on about money.......money is N
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Not the finished item i know but looks far too short,not wedged enough...... ...not really sure why you would bother,nylon breaksticks have been around long enough and certainly cheap enough not to need to make your own. http://www.obriensk9supply.com/store/index.php?target=categories&category_id=163
