That's the thing though... it would have been a good time to get some discussion going, tell us why we were wrong, and exactly what we're missing that made it such a good fight.
But here's the part people seem to be missing. Every time I have tried to do that, I am responded to with hate and mockery of not just myself but the sport I love. The case is always that nothing I say could possibly be right even though I've spent my entire life as a student and practitioner, I'm stupid, completely bias, and any other unintelligible response that can be thrown to degrade me and anything I stand for. No one wants to be told their wrong on anything. Maybe you are more receptive but most everyone else is not. The thing that makes me the most angry about it is the fact that I have spent my life in this, and yet people act like I have no clue, when they have little to no experience in any of it, and the extent of their knowledge is what they've read somewhere maybe, or what one of their buddies told them.
I just wish you didn't go ahead and start talking about beating people up and stuff like that. I was pretty disappointed because you're a good poster and I thought you were above that. Don't ever let yourself get that mad, it's just a stupid wrestling forum on the internet after all.
You know what, 99.9% of the time I am above all that. I'm actually very very passive, it's easy to be that way when you've taken ass beatings against your will for a few years due to numbers you couldn't overcome, and been physically, mentally, and emotionally abused your entire life. Give it a try anyone I beg you and see if you don't crumble under the weight of it all. I certainly didn't have any intentions when I got on to get that angry and I know it's just a forum on the internet, but it's still serious enough for people to say all those despicable things for no reason. That's pretty serious to me. I guess when that's what you've had dealt to you your whole life, not just the normal stuff people go through, it's a little easier to take offense to it.
My main issue with the fight is that I just don't understand the Mayweather hype machine when he really didn't make much of an attempt to KO Mosley, and he did a lot of hugging and running away. If he had been at least more aggressive, I would have enjoyed the fight more.
My issue with that is that people don't seem to mind it when it's one of their UFC fighters or something, but when it comes to a boxer, that's supposedly all it is. I can't explain how hard it is and how much skill it takes to make it look as easy and effortless as someone like Mayweather does. I don't like Floyd Mayweather, I can't stand anything about him, but by God he is one of the very best in that ring no matter what anyone thinks of him.
The thing people don't seem to understand about the hugging and running away is that it's not hugging and running away. It's all apart of a strategy and tactic. You see the whole time what Mayweather was doing by "running away" as people call it, was luring Mosley in. He knew what Mosley's whole game plan was, he was going to come out and try to establish the jab and hook off of it. Knowing that and being the defensive mastermind that Mayweather is, he then knows "OK, I'll draw him in and he can throw those punches, I'll block them and catch him with counter punches on the way out" which is what he did all night after the 2nd round. The "Hugging" is also a tactic, boxers particularly like to get into a rhythm of actions. It's like a snowball that goes downhill and gets bigger and bigger. If you keep wrapping up your opponent and never let him get his rhythm, he can't make progress outside of the occasional landed punch.
That is why it was such a masterpiece, Mayweather made Mosley fight HIS fight, and took him out of his game plan, consistently punishing him for trying to use it the whole time. Mayweather was trying to put Shane out a bit, but he himself was still worried about the last thing to go on a fighter, their punch. He wasn't trying to close the deal because earlier he felt the power, and knew that Mosley could turn the fight around if he landed a good one. It was a beautiful display of ring generalship, and control of not just his opponent but his entire game plan.
It's the internet, people are going to be overzealous and call others "******ed", "idiots", "stupid", etc. That's why, just like in real life, you give it back. Again, at the end of the day, it's just the internet, and you just have to take a step back and take it at face value. You never should get to the point where you're talking about putting people in the hospital, hypothetical or not, and posting your address on the internet so that people can come fight you. It makes you look like a loose cannon.
Once again though, not trying to argue or anything, but when you fire back, then you just get it even worse, and if you don't you just look like a bitch, like maybe what they are saying is true. I never said I would put anyone in a hospital either, I did use a metaphor saying I'd beat someones brains in, but that was a statement of confidence in my skills not threatening to put anyone in the hospital. When I mentioned that I was talking about the way people around here would deal with someone talking shit to that extent and I wasn't lying, that's what happens, I was just saying. Again the address, just making a point that hell, if you hate me so bad, if you want to kick my ass so bad as your words indicate, please do it, don't talk about it be about it. I wouldn't actually expect anyone to do it that wasn't the idea, the idea was to say "look, either back down with your words a bit, lay off of my ass, or come do something about it since I'm apparently such a (insert expletive). I know how it sounded and how it came off and that wasn't exactly my intension but it's like "FUCK, what do I have to do to get through to you people, what do I have to do to tell you enough is enough, and why when I do that won't you listen."
I'm not an asshole, and I'm none of the vile things all those people including you called me. I am a man, and a man with his pride. I've taken it my entire life from friends, family, strangers all because of things that had nothing to do with anything I ever said or did. It just gets pretty damn old when you come to enjoy yourself, but people don't want you to, they just want to continue the abuse that you've endured for so long. I won't take it, and no one else should have to either.
What are you on about?