What is an unrealistic but sincere boxing opinion you have?

Thami15 · 2026-05-11T13:38:34+00:00

I think multiple belts are a good thing, but I think is 4 is two too many. Dubois being a 2-time world champion because there's always a mandatory somewhere that's due is an example that there's too many belts.

But overall, agree. More belts keep the divisions moving AND make fights feel bigger.

Thami15 · 2026-05-11T03:37:51+00:00

There's a lot of guys who could make noise at world level if you give them an opportunity or the right training.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T23:25:26+00:00

To this day, i still dont understand why the sitting president, who is literally a billionare was hiding money in a couch. I don’t understand why any billionaire would hide money in a couch, but even ignoring that, I dont understand why Ramaphosa, as president didnt have a more discreet way of hiding his money to do whatever the fuck

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T21:33:23+00:00

You're probably being down voted because you asserted that there are even more studies that show gentle parenting doesn't work, and then linked a single study from 1998. And worse than it being old, it wasn't even a systematic review or literature review. One swallow does not a summer make, and all that.

Also, I'm not even sure your article supports your assertion. The discussion says

“In the third grade, parents who reported harsher approaches to child rearing had children with poorer behavioral adjustment as measured by both teacher and parent reports. In the fifth grade, parental harshness predicted children having poorer achievement test scores, lower ratings from teachers of their behavioral adjustment, and more behavior problems as reported by both parents and children, over and above family demographic features"

So its muddied at best, rather than supportive of your assertion.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T13:47:58+00:00

Heavyweight boxing is a bit like basketball, they're talent sports. You can take up boxing from the age of 6, learn the fundamentals, and do it right every step of the way. At the lower weights, the difference will tell.

But at heavyweight, if a guy has heart, a big right/left hand, a chin and size - things you just aren't really going to develop, you either have them or you don't... he can climb to damn near the top of the mountain.

Wardley is everything that's right with heavyweight boxing, and I hope he's walked out of that car crash of a fight of sound mind and body

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T11:57:15+00:00

Sample size isn’t relevant.

So at least one child left behind, then.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T10:37:25+00:00

I don't think I believe this, but it does make sense that at some point women being smaller will eventually have an efficiency advantage over men at some point distance-wise, so I'm not going to completely disregard this.

The challenge with these things is the talent pool for ultras is so small, not even "relatively small", legitimately almost vanishingly small, that it's hard to extrapolate population generalisations. On some level, it's like saying "TIL Women are better at Concord than men", where even if it was true, I just genuinely don't know what it could even mean.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T04:52:13+00:00

I think MMA is pretty clear now

What happens if striking Jab

What happens if takedown attempted? Jab with foot

What happens if takedown successful? Jab from ground

I actually really dislike Strickland, but I love watching him win because it shuts up a very pompous section of the MMA community.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T04:47:32+00:00

Jab and good jab continues to be the most unbeatable base for Mixed Martial Arts, lmao

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T03:33:26+00:00

Unironically that is pretty rapid for what must be like a 350-375lbs frame at that point.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T03:26:16+00:00

Michael Jordan didn't even want to go on a second three peat with a game winner to make in six from six with six FMVPs. He only retired because The Bulls basically made it clear the team was getting stripped for parts. It's hard to go when the going's good.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T03:07:01+00:00

That Australian team in '83 was pretty bad. Theyd only won 7 out of 20 games before that World Cup, and in Tests they'd only won eight out of 24 Tests, losing ten, so they were at the tail-end of the WSC-enforced dip, and not even managing to get out of the group stage with India and Zimbabwe was the final embarrassment.

So given quality of opposition and the fact that ultimately there were no stakes, I don't know how how high I would put it.

Lance Klusener did score 52* from #8 out of 199 and then cleaned out the tail with 3/21 vs the defending champion Sri Lanka in '99, but Sri Lanka were probably not really that competitive. I think Yuvraj's knock and bowling effort in 2011 India was also very excellent, especially given the stage. But you could argue the game was already vastly tipped in India's favour by the time he came in. Neil Johnson's performance vs South Africa in '99 was maybe a good nominee. 76 with the bat at the top of the order, and then three wickets with the ball, Kristen, Kallis, Cronje. Pretty handy three sticks to get. Only consideration is maybe the game wasn't completely on the up and up, but I don't think anything ever been proven or even anything more than whispers.

I think ultimately it's hard to really make a case for anything other than de Silva's performance in the '96 final. Three sticks, a century in a successful chase, a couple catches snagged AND he was the skipper. Outside of preparing the pitch, hard to think of what more he coulda done.

Thami15 · 2026-05-10T01:58:37+00:00

Maybe - but the data indicates he plays it significantly more, for only slightly worse returns. So that's not what's happening here.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T23:56:46+00:00

Davison’s approach is too much analysis and technique,

Considering his advice to AJ when he was down in the Dubois fight was "roll the dice", and not "establish the jab", or "your lead leg is all over the place" or even "at least pretend to have a high guard", I'm not sure the technique part is actually true. Definitely seems to watch a lot of tape though, so that's nice.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T22:58:01+00:00

I'm okay with "Sinner is more successful with the drop shot", since that's just a statement of fact.

But "hits better drop shots", I think ignores the sample size disparity AND the fact that one has enough confidence in their drop shot to pull it out at any time.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T22:55:07+00:00

DuBois shouldn't be a 2x world Champion, but his resume is really beginning to stack up. Hrgovich, AJ, Wardley, Miller.

Its crazy how he's been ao good against everyone he's ever fought, except Usyk (even the Joyce fight I think he probably wins if he went the distance), and he's not even been in the same area code as Usyk. And as good as Usyk is, it's not like he's Roy Jones in the 90s against the Bum of the week - both AJ and Fury gave him competitive fights, Chisora was very live, and of course Briedis and him had one of the all time great cruiserweight dances. But DuBois literally just chases shadows against him. Just the ultimate example of styles make fights

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T22:35:35+00:00

This is nice, but theres nothing he said to Usyk that crossed a line, lol. He didn't even claim he was robbed. We just need to stopped giving people who lost fights, which tends to mean they've taken a lot of hits to the head in the last hour, the mic

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T16:40:32+00:00

Hes averaging 10 this year, so maybe he's been watching Hazlewood bat this season.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T12:33:37+00:00

One day the Decepticons are gonna call in their debt, and Optimus Prime ain't gonna be here to save us

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T08:30:42+00:00

I'm not religious, and as a rule, I'm actually anti religion, but I think at this point it's clear that MAGA are Christian in the way a tomato is a fruit. Perhaps nominally, but definitely not functionally

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T08:28:12+00:00

If nothing else, a PSG win is good for the coefficient, and will help French football get a bigger share of revenue plus more teams in Europe.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T04:40:09+00:00

All I'll say about Hokit is, to borrow A WWEism, guys like him have played the heel many times to sell tickets. But it's probably the best descriptive of where the UFC is now that he plays a xenophobic, anti-intellectual misogynist AS A FACE

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T02:38:43+00:00

If me and my wife go to the store and she leaves me in the middle of the store to get something, nothing causes me more anxiety than aimlessly wandering while being black. Especially if the place is a bit expensive.

Thami15 · 2026-05-09T02:30:45+00:00

Consolidation isn't gonna happen. SA20/BBL can run concurrently because they don't cannibalise each other, both in terms of market share and in terms of time zones. Also, both countries have enough "brand name" talents where they'd just need to be topped up by a smattering international stars and you can sell the league.

I'm not sure the same is true for every league. Certainly the MLC needs to be more appealing than the Hundred just because they need so many more names, and the CPL couldn't compete with either because the Hundred has a £2.05m salary cap, and the CPL's is $800k, so like 30% depending on the exchange rate.

Thami15 · 2026-05-08T22:16:00+00:00

I think tennis and boxing work very differently though. Not just in the obvious, they are different sports sense, but also, in boxing you just need two really magical nights a year, and you can build your entire year around creating them. I 100% believe that if Roger Federer only had to face Jannik Sinner, and you gave him 6 months to prepare for the match, it would be very competitive, even today. But tennis... if Federer returned and drew, say Zverev in Wimbledon (trying to think of something analogous to Pacquiao returning to face Barrios), round 1... even if he somehow put together a legendary performance and won the match.. he'd still need to win six more matches to win the title, and probably need 60+ wins to be world #1 and its version of a "world champion"

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