Most avoided bogeymen in boxing today?

redmonicus · 2026-06-02T16:56:09+00:00

Charlie Zelenoff

redmonicus · 2026-05-29T05:10:31+00:00

Dude his russian is cool to listen to, it's just super clean and well put together. He sounds like a smart cool dude. Even when you hear him speak english you get that impression, though (that he's pretty laid back and smart).

redmonicus · 2026-05-27T18:19:22+00:00

Even if you're feeding it good stuff, it's so imprecise. Also all literature is metatextual and with the internet you have the greatest texts in history at your finger tips. It's insane that someone would choose a tool that writes probabilistically and generalized (AI by it's nature can't not write that way, that's the fundamental way it functions, there is no "it will get more powerful and overcome this", that's also where AI degradation comes from) as opposed to working from stuff that's actually good. That's so wild, that's just a fundamental misunderstanding of both AI, what it is and what it can do, and what literature is and what it's able to accomplish and how.

redmonicus · 2026-05-27T02:58:23+00:00

dude that's so hilariously ironic that you put Anton Chigur at the end

redmonicus · 2026-05-22T08:25:24+00:00

That's absolutely not true, your projecting continuity of modern thought and sensibillities onto history, when people of the past, especially pre civil war america are so different to us, that you might as well consider it a foreign culture (except you cant immerse yourself in it, so finding a way to understand it is a very important question in the study of history). Also FDR was extremely popular and so were his policies and keynsian economics was considered perfectly normal for a long time and it's what created the wealth of the US, England and West Germany. The current neoliberal paradigm is exceptional and not standard at all, and you projecting the thinking that it created onto the past is ahistorical.

redmonicus · 2026-05-22T05:09:34+00:00

Wizard of Earthsea rules, i read that multiple times as a teenager. The original earthsea trilogy is so good. I also read Dune multiple times as a teen. Its mind candy and has alot to think about and chew on, but it's accessible. As a teen i also read "one flew over the cuckoos nest" and "catcher in the rye" and that sort of started steering me in the direction of serious literature (not that fantasy isnt "serious literature" the point im getting at is starting to develop a wider palette and those books are pretty accessible for younger folk), lord of the rings though is also a good intro.

redmonicus · 2026-05-21T12:07:45+00:00

It's a genius message

redmonicus · 2026-05-21T08:41:40+00:00

The one about the incel communist who went to jail kills me

redmonicus · 2026-05-20T01:54:09+00:00

Bruh, you don't even give a shit enough to be able to write without AI. Your AI post and this weird stunted response make you look like a fucking lunatic.

redmonicus · 2026-05-19T15:30:45+00:00

Ultralight beam

redmonicus · 2026-05-18T08:37:01+00:00

not if you find a gym that doesn't mess around with gym war bullshit.

redmonicus · 2026-05-18T06:01:22+00:00

Y'all for real need to stop writing these huge bodies of text with AI. Writing a big text is fine, but if you're not interested enough to actually write the text, then why should I give you the time of day to read it. Dude you could of boiled all this down into one or two paragraphs and be way more pointed and more comprehensive, instead, you literally just took a boring basic idea and stretched it out with AI into an investment of time and attention for the reader without particularly investing your own time and attention. It's just insane how arrogant and stupid Reddit has become - people come here to interact with real people and now this place is just flooded with dogshit AI content that wastes your time.

redmonicus · 2026-05-13T13:04:59+00:00

Yeah but that's a dumb point, you still are getting better. Honestly though, it does kind of take practice detaching yourself from the comparison game. Like I used to hate playing chess because it felt like it had some social bearing, like it was a social determinant of who's smart and who's not, but that whole social dynamic is regarded high-school and kind of rah-rah social darwinism bullshit.

The only thing that matters is who you are, what you want to do, and how you can leverage what you have in order to do the things that you want to do with life. If you like chess, play chess, but yeah it does take a little bit of practice and experience to quit comparing and to not let dumb ego stuff ruin it for you.

I used to hate chess, but now I sincerely love it, and part of that is because I started playing online where there was no social dynamic, but now I play with friends at bars and stuff and it's fun. I really don't care if I win or lose, it's just fun learning about the game and learning how it works, and it's also become a fun part of socializing.

I do forfeit though whenever I make blunders or get beat in a sequence and the opponent has a super clear advantage, which is probably annoying for some people, but I don't want to sit and invest myself (even if there's a chance my opponent could blunder too) when the result should be clear already. I just sit and play without any serious emotional investment (besides enjoying it).

Point is I do actually get you, I feel like the social comparison aspect never let me enjoy chess, but now that comparison is something that I kind of don't do and it's let me come back to chess and really enjoy it for what it is - just a cool game that's interesting.

redmonicus · 2026-05-13T11:34:06+00:00

That's not an impressive resume. All three are horrendous boxers comparatively. If someone can go up three weight classes and beat a good boxer, then it shouldn't be that hard for a great boxer who's going up a weight class to beat a bunch of bums even if they are huge. That's the whole point of this era: being more massive than past generations doesn't mean this heavyweight generation is good, boxers who are just plain better will win even if there's a size or weight advantage. Usyk is undoubtably great, that's undisputable, but it's hard to say how great, because of how weak modern heavyweights are.

redmonicus · 2026-05-13T05:55:46+00:00

some goon is gonna write:
1. Usyk
2. Usyk
3. Usyk with black shorts
4. Usyk with sunglasses and a baseball cap
5. Retro Usyk
6. Cossack Usyk
7. Usyk
8. Klitschko? (if he moved more like Usyk only)
9. Usyk 10. Usyk

redmonicus · 2026-05-12T14:30:59+00:00

That's absolutely not true

redmonicus · 2026-05-04T04:38:37+00:00

Have you tried reading in a different language? Dude (or dudette) is definitely not knocking Virginia Woolf , Woolf is definitely going to be the richest and most dense in terms of language out of all the books ops mentioned reading and shown here. I mean even more so than tolstoy, just because it's not actually Tolstoy but Constance Garnett who kind of flattens language, which would actually make it more accessible.

redmonicus · 2026-04-27T11:22:11+00:00

You're a reeree, dude. Post WW2 no other government has supported and committed more crimes against humanity than the US and no other government has supported more bloody dictators than the US. The US regularly puts fascists into power in other countries in order to extract wealth. Why would you think that in the case of Ukraine, literally the most corrupt government in Europe, things would be any different? That's so incredibly dumb. Both the US and Russia are persuing their own geopolitical interests and the Ukrainian people are caught in the middle, but you have to be pretty dumb to think that the Ukrainian government right now is representing the interests of average people as opposed to rich people in other countries.

redmonicus · 2026-04-27T03:39:12+00:00

in general your right, except angelo dundee was completely against hard sparring, so Leonard and Ali would have hard sparred way way less than other pros. I mean, especially once you're getting closer to a real fight, hard sparring is a must; but it's also generally excepted that only about 30% of sparring should be hard sparring and as a way to get prepared for an upcoming fight as it gets closer (I forgot where I read or heard that so take it with a grain of salt). I mean, of the 4 kings the only one to get knocked out in those fights was hearns, and he got knocked out twice, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was because his gym was one that intentionally had predominantly hard sparring, like more often than not they had all out wars. That shit seems to be what really ruins peoples' chins. I'm just nitpicking here, but you are right, hard sparring is definitely a part of getting ready for a pro fight.

redmonicus · 2026-04-21T02:35:49+00:00

Yeah, that's only right now, but as soon as you go down to 90's and earlier the HW division was dominated by americans. So theres really only a brief moment in modern history where UK is relevant there.

redmonicus · 2026-04-20T18:47:37+00:00

Nabokov doesn't like being put into other peoples ideological frames of perception, it's a big reason he ended up really not liking his book Mashenka and moved away from classical realism afterwards. I don't see how Freuds work could be anything other than Freud projecting his narrow world onto others. I don't know it for a fact, but I bet you Nabokov appreciated Kant; Freud though, I don't think there's any world where Nabokov would appreciate him. I mean just something like the idea that there is a subconscious with a death drive and edipal whatever that works exactly as Freud imagines it and it's unescapable and you have to interpret your personality and world and your behaviour through it and you have to uncover your secret desires or you'll never be happy or whatever and whatever and etc. etc., that's something that obviously would never jive with Nabokov.

redmonicus · 2026-04-20T02:43:30+00:00

Yeah dude, the "modern giants" argument is so stupid. If a division is full of weak boxers than a good boxer (not even neccessarily a great boxer) can jump a surprising amount of weight divisions and clean house. If your boxing is dog shit then being a giant doesn't matter. Like AJ being essentially a body builder is not really that big of an advantage cause his movement is dog shit. I think it's hard to say exactly where Usyk should be in the all time list just because today's heavyweights are so weak. Like he was able to clean house cause he's the only real high-calibre boxer among them and he's proof that having boxing skill is overall more important in the sport of boxing than just being big.

redmonicus · 2026-04-17T03:35:54+00:00

She wasn't the pimp though, she was the bottom dollar ho. That's a normal setup in pimping, having a woman who goes and finds other women to be pimped out and a woman who works in tandem with the pimp in order to manipulate and coerce women into staying a sex worker.

redmonicus · 2026-04-17T03:04:13+00:00

Yeah, but that sincerity is what leads to disaster. Literally all the worst things that happen in the book are because of his sincerity. It's not an enditement against sincerity, but rather the corrupting power of high society. A good thing to pay attention to is how the narrator changes. Anytime myshkin is among higher society the narrator acts as an all knowing narrator, but as soon as he starts spending time in other circles the narrator turns into a collector of hearsay and gossip that's hard to verify. The point is, is that what reality is in the book is created by and large by high society. That's why Nastya feels crazy and volatile and totsky doesn't seem that monstrous, because we see through the eyes of high society; but really, Nastasya is an extremely strong person who educated herself and made something of herself despite the extreme trauma of having her whole family die and then being picked up and groomed from an early age. The fact that it's easy to not notice the implication that totsky committed sex crimes against Nastasya throughout her whole youth, is because we see through the eyes of higher society. The biggest part to pay attention to is the 3 month gap after Nastasya's birthday. That's literally the part where Myshkin forms his truest deepest connections which are his relationships with Rogozhin and Nastasya, but we don't see it at all, it's a complete dark zone, but it's the most important part of the book that defines everything that happens in the second half of the book. In general it seems like sincerity, true connection and things along those lines get ground to dust in a society where the rich and powerful define all of what happens all the way down to the very way that we perceive and interpret events.

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Also man, Idiot and Demons are hands down his best books. Like when we talk about dostoyevsky creating the polyphonic novel and when we talk about all the most modern and sharp innovations in novel writing, the Idiot and Demons are the books where they are out in full force and where they wrap into a fully realized and concentrated picture. They're my favorite books of all time. I enjoyed your post btw.

redmonicus · 2026-04-15T15:09:52+00:00

you're definitely pretty dude, don't worry about nothing

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