Doesn't the sleeziness in boxing speak more to the promotors, trainers, money men, etc., than the fighters?
Absolutely.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:00:04 am PST #4018 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:01:09 am PST #4019 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...but that wasn't his ear.
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Fred Pete - Feb 04, 2005 9:01:42 am PST #4020 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Well, I think that may have a lot to do with baseball being a non-contact sport (ostensibly).
That's very possible. The catch with boxing/fighting is that the whole point of the sport is to knock your opponent senseless. Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 9:02:35 am PST #4021 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
You've been reading old press from the NHL, haven't you?
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 9:04:45 am PST #4022 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Hee.
Sparky1 - Feb 04, 2005 9:10:30 am PST #4023 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
(X-post in Bitches) From the NY trial courts:
Two days after George W. Bush renewed his call for a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a court in New York has just ruled that gay men and lesbians in that state must be granted the right to marry.
Links to the press release, decision here.
amych - Feb 04, 2005 9:10:35 am PST #4024 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In non-boxing news, NY rules for gay marriage.
The boxers I know -- admittedly, mostly amateurs -- are all fine folk. (It's the promoters who are sleaze.) (And Tyson. But that's a Tyson issue.)
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 9:11:54 am PST #4025 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay New York!!
Topic!Cindy - Feb 04, 2005 9:12:54 am PST #4026 of 10002
What is even happening?
Copycats.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 9:13:16 am PST #4027 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Not just you, and quite distinct from shrinkage.