Hammin' it up at Heavyweight
by jrok on May 15, 2009 8:17 PM EDT
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PrintIn case anyone is curious, this is what Bruce Seldon is fighting tonight on the Johnson/Vargas undercard.
via a.espncdn.com (copyright Al Bello/Getty Images)
Well, it's not the whole thing. I imagine Mr. Bello needed to wait until those astronauts fixed the Hubble Telescope to shoot the rest. Needless to say, Gabe Brown -- who weighed in at a svelte 359 -- is not a fitness freak. It seems almost insane that this sort of thing can happen in an age when proper diet and nutrition isn't exactly a mysterious dark art, known only to weirdos like Jack LaLane. And even though this is an extreme case, it just seems like the current heavyweight crop is rife with more tub-lardiness and blobbosity than ever before.
The problem might be that large, athletic, disciplined guys are just getting coaxed into other sports these days at an earlier age. I don't mind that boxing isn't as broadly popular as it was when I was growing up, but I do feel a little twinge of shame anytime I see fights like Toney/Oquendo or Chambers/Peter (...or Arreola/McLine or even tonight's Johnson/Vargas). If young kids happen to channel surf onto stuff like that, the chances of them being transformed into lifelong boxing fans or even future fighters are quite a bit slimmer than Mr. Brown's waistline.
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Dude makes James Toney look like David Haye.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
I wonder why the heavyweight division is so ridiculed
Seriously, he is the boxing version of Tank Abbott.
Seattle Seahawks: We've got Brian Russell and TWO kickers!
Actually, that's an insult to Abbott.
There should be a warning on this fanpost for the graphic image put up here.
Seattle Seahawks: We've got Brian Russell and TWO kickers!
I can't believe he gained that much weight
He came in at 300 for the Guinn fight on the Jones-Calzaghe undercard. Already back up to 360, huh?
Anyway, I pray for you they don’t televise this fight. Fortunately for me, I’m stuck at work.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
Along the same lines
Some kid who I can’t remember the name of went pro a few days ago. Someone told me about it, told me they were the national 18 and under champ at HW and that he went pro immediately on graduating high school. Anyway, I look the kid up, and he’s 5’10", 220 and not muscular. He had another one of those decent jabs (reminded me a little of Eddie Chambers), but I really hope that the best we have to offer out of that generation isn’t guys who could make cruiserweight with even a little work, and probably could make light heavyweight if they put in the work you’re SUPPOSED to put in to be a good pro boxer.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
Joey Dawejko was his name for those who are curious
He has clips up on Youtube and myspace.
http://usaboxing.org/athlete/athlete/2551
On an ESB thread, someone posted the best pic ever:
Vogt early, Vogt often.
by Brickhaus on May 15, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
as a mexican american i find it EXTREMELY racist that arreola is representing taco bell. please take down that picture
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by battle axe of doom on May 16, 2009 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Not sure if you're kidding
But I remember when I first looked at this, I immediately thought the picture would be funnier if Kevin McBride was holding the McDonald’s fries… maybe I have a sick mind.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
yeah i was joking. arreola is a fat ass and deserves to have taco bell blasted all over his chest, mexican or not.
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by battle axe of doom on May 16, 2009 1:37 AM EDT up reply actions
no offense to the bigger folk here
but he’s a pro boxer who many thought had a future but he’s blowing it
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by battle axe of doom on May 16, 2009 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions
Explain?
Obviously an in-joke, but I don’t get it….
The link between McBride andMcDonalds is?
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
Hmmm...
I don’t McKnow. I can’t McThink of anything McSimilar.
Still, you have to admit, this guy would fit right into the picture with a “Supersize me” tattoo, a Shamrock Shake and a beer.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
So, basically, the first two letters of their names are the same?
Therefore, I should soon expect similarities to be drawn between *TY*e Fields and *TY*son, *GE*orge Foreman and *GE*rry Penalosa, *MA*rco Antonio Barrera and the *MA*rlboro man, amongst others?
Sorry, been a bad day, just not feeling it…..
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
Regardless, Mickey D’s would go ALL OUT around St. Patty’s Day. Those Shamrock Shakes were off the hook. They were the only fast food chain that gave a rat’s ass about St. Pat’s… Burger King didn’t do dick…. damn “West Britons” and their precious “King.”
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
JT as the Burger King tickles my funny bone.
by Scott Christ on May 16, 2009 2:27 AM EDT up reply actions
I still think the best part is Sam Peter bowing down to the new kings in the corner
Vogt early, Vogt often.
I thought he was retching
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
holy shit i didn’t see sam peter in the background
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by battle axe of doom on May 16, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
There really should be a super heavyweight division and/or a limit at heavyweight
Any prestige that came with having the heavyweights as the biggest division has surely been gone for a long time.
I don’t know what the proper weight limit for heavyweights should be, but I think there definitely should be one to force the bigger guys to make some sort of weight at heavyweight.
MMA’s (or UFC’s at least) is 265 at heavyweight. That would allow most of these guys to keep fighting but Gabe Brown is really just a fat, fat man. He’s not in shape whatsoever.
by Scott Christ on May 25, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Something like 200-250lbs for HW, 250-350 SuperHW and anything above that would fall under “medically unfit to fight”…
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on May 26, 2009 4:36 AM EDT up reply actions
The problem arises then that people like Bob Sapp, who quite clearly IS medically fit to fight, would have been classed as the opposite for several of his fights…
I know he isn’t a boxer, but the point stands.
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
Valuev has never fought over 350lbs?
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
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