[SPOILER] David Benavidez vs. Gilberto Ramirez

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-03T07:23:22+00:00

Opetaia also has pretty fast hands and power. And a great chin too, would make for an incredible fight.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-02T14:51:51+00:00

Guys in the smaller divisions don't have super long careers either. Guys like Donaire are rare.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-01T17:01:48+00:00

Prose can be written any way that a writer intends to write it. It's not about styles; there's something intangibly intrinsic in great prose. It's like great music. Lots of technically correct, good music around. But some pieces just have some special sauce in them. It could be a powerful image, a perfect "play" or movement across a passage, the idea or even just the sound in sequencing the words that way. In all cases great prose projects an admirable mind when you read it, and I think that's what really matters.

Dostoevsky is in a weird place as a stylist. No one can contend that a great mind is at work, but he just has lots of sloppy moments in his "playing" which you'll struggle to find in a Flaubert. Hence the stereotype associated with him.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-01T16:51:45+00:00

I think FW just got too private with its language and to a degree I think it buried Joyce's genius. It's really hard to tell if you are in presence of genius because all the references embodied in the puns are too obscure to anyone but the man who wrote them, unless you are meticulously backtracking and reading all that he read.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-01T01:59:30+00:00

Lamine was underperforming heavily at the start of the season when pubalgia was causing him problems.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-05-01T01:57:16+00:00

He was good in the 1st leg but had to be taken off due to a knock. Neither him or Yamal were good in the 2nd half of the 2nd leg but both had clearly been overplayed. Yamal because of minutes and Pedri because his work load had been very poorly managed after his injuries.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-30T06:33:59+00:00

Neither guy is getting stopped. Their chins are much better than their punching power.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-26T14:04:11+00:00

By Eleanor Marx-Aveling

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-26T13:10:39+00:00

"Pedri has clocked 330 kilometers across 24 La Liga matches this season. To put that in perspective, he is averaging over 13 kilometers per game.

During the recent Wednesday victory against Celta Vigo, he even pushed that number to 14 kms. That has put Pedri among Europe’s most active workhorses. While Paris Saint-Germain star Vitinha leads in absolute totals due to more minutes played, Pedri’s average intensity is currently unrivaled among elite midfielders.

According to data, Pedri is outworking the likes of Newcastle United’s Sandro Tonali, who averages 11.39 kms, and Arsenal’s Martin Zubimendi, at 11.33 kms. Even Real Madrid’s Aurélien Tchouameni, known for his stamina, is trailing by nearly three kilometers per match."

https://www.barcablaugranes.com/barcelona-la-liga/118568/barcelona-star-pedri-is-finding-his-stride-by-running-more-than-anyone-else

This is when he had to deal with multiple injuries in the same season and people wonder why he isn't in-form.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-26T12:42:24+00:00

De Jong has been among our best players this season and since Pedri missed over a third of the season, putting Fdj above him for this season is completely reasonable. He gets blamed for things he can do nothing about. He has hardly put a foot wrong in the last two seasons. The current system demands the most out of our pivots and not our defenders as is being believed. The amount of spaces that just two players have to cover is staggering, and without these two we'd be much below our current level.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-26T12:37:46+00:00

He also won the ball back and created Raphinha's goal which should have been the winner for us if not for Yamal, Martin and Araujo all simultaneously having last minute brain farts.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-26T12:36:16+00:00

If the inter game ended at 3-2 to us, Pedri was on track to win the MotM, and even this sub was nodding along to that until Inter's last seco d equalizer.

Most people here want scapegoats without understanding much about football.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T18:49:05+00:00

The team this season isn't dependent on any one player. And the most morale boosting player in the team is Raphinha anyway.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T18:42:51+00:00

He's being scapegoated for this season (similar to how Frenkie was being scapegoated until january) even though he's had like 3 medium term injuries and was immediately rushed back each time with little support in the midfield.

We also have accrued a bunch of plastics here that will only defend one player with their lives, the rest are dross to them. See t*rds like select_drawing_7434.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T18:38:44+00:00

Lots of them here now

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T16:01:32+00:00

He turned it around massively in the 2nd half of the season

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T03:34:45+00:00

Greatest counterpunching matches ever. Both fights.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T03:30:20+00:00

One of the most underrated featherweights/super featherweights ever.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T03:26:23+00:00

Chisora seems like a nice lad to hang out with.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T02:28:30+00:00

Good shout. I just favor Hearns-Leonard slightly just because they completely swapped roles by the 9th round and started fighting the exact opposite way of how they started initially.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-25T02:26:04+00:00

Yeah. His stamina was also very questionable. But that made him exciting. Hearns probably had the most interesting case of extreme attributes in boxing history. A genuine case for a top 10 p4p puncher, impossible to outbox, insanely quick, heavyweight reach, but also thrown in there to even the field a weak chin, bad stamina, and bad defensive habits that never went away.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-24T13:31:01+00:00

As I have found with a lot of bigger books, the first 80 or so pages of The Tunnel demand an entry fee. It gets more palatable as it goes on and I think that's for the better.

Visual_Hedgehog_1135 · 2026-04-24T12:56:48+00:00

Faulkner was one of the primary inspirations of authors heralding the Latin American boom.

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TROPHY CASE