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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jun 10, 2012 - 11:30am PT
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Tapia, wow.
Albuquerque has some hard characters, no doubt about it.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jun 10, 2012 - 11:55am PT
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The fix was in....
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jun 25, 2012 - 04:50pm PT
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What a joke...
Riley, have you noticed that your 'tude is slipping a little more to the negative these days, or is it just me???
Peace Bro
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jun 27, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
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Talk about a guy who looked kind of sloppy most of the time but allways found a way to win.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Pretty sure if Anderson Silva had been brought up in boxing rather than MMA he would be just as big of a player in the boxing world as he is in the MMA world.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Nov 16, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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^I always admired him, that picture is so sad
Let's do right by the man's legacy
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Nov 18, 2012 - 06:07pm PT
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UFC is cool if you like seeing a bunch of dudes on juice do the same interviews over and over in between extreme violence for which they get paid pennies while the organization rakes in billions. Personally I don't spend my hard earned cash paying to watch that. I have seen it when hanging with friends and I feel sorry for the poor dudes in the ring who take all the pain and punishment that the sport makes it's $ off and who will pay for their medical care when they aren't worth any more $ to UFC? The taxpayers will.
F*#K VIOLENCE
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 24, 2012 - 01:02pm PT
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F*#K VIOLENCE As a result of "violence" Hector "Macho" Comacho died this morning. As you have probably heard, he and a friend (49) were shot while sitting in their car last tuesday. His friend died at the scene. Hector was 50 years old!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 24, 2012 - 01:26pm PT
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Splitter,
the back story on that is that the drug cartels are finding that routing drug shipments through Puerto Rico (which is already in the US) is less problematic than Mexico. But the stink always follows the crap and with contraband comes corruption.
As a result PR is suffering a huge crime wave of which Comacho was just another casualty.
Yes there was coke in the car, but if the government didn't act as if it owned the actual bodies of it's citizens to the point that it can tell them what they can or can't put in them then there would be no profit to be made.
Does anybody really believe that organized crime didn't learn from the mistake of repealing prohibition, and that they don't politically finance the most vehement anti-drug politicians to preserve their market?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 25, 2012 - 03:58am PT
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"For Ricky Hatton, the fight is over at last. When the excellent former world champion Vyacheslav Senchenko drilled a wicked left deep into Hatton's washboard gut eight seconds from the end of the ninth round here on Saturday night, he left the skeletal shell of a former hero bent double on the canvas for the full count, but the Ukrainian did no more than put a full stop to a sentence that had been drawn out maybe a soundbite too long in recent weeks and months.
Afterwards an emotional Hatton called time on his career. "That's it for Ricky Hatton," he said. "I haven't got it any more. I had a good cry. But I'm a happy man. I don't feel like killing myself, I don't feel like slitting my wrists. I'm not going to put my loved ones through that again. I've put my demons to bed."
Hatton, at 34 a year younger than his opponent, was asking a lot of himself – and the 20,000 supporters who packed the Manchester Arena – to come back after three-and-a-half years away from the ring. He said he wanted to erase the memory of defeat by Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas in 2009, and at least he did not finish the journey unconscious.
He was devastated, a little embarrassed perhaps, but in one piece. He can move on now, surely, to seek normality, maybe even repair a two-year rift with his parents, and certainly give his partner, Jennifer, and children, Campbell and Millie, more of his time. He has survived physical pain in the ring, mental torture outside it. He has won world titles at two weights.
This was his 14th fight in this arena, and his first loss in front of his fanatical supporters. Who was more nervous? Senchenko, who had fought outside his country only three times in 33 contests, back-pedalled at the start, dry-skinned, pawing out exploratory lefts. Hatton bounced in front of him, but the blows took a while to flow and his nose reddened quickly on the end of a jab. It's been a while. The intent was there; the execution proved elusive. He swung a wild left and took a right.
Hatton promised he would work the angles but his lines were predictable. Senchenko kept his shape, shipping an uppercut but steadying Hatton with a crisp right flat on his jaw. The British fighter had for months worked over his trainer Bob Shannon wearing the inflated body bag, but found his work downstairs less profitable here. Senchenko is no Shannon. Hatton, still desperate to land a statement punch, winged hooks around Senchenko's bobbing head, looking for a finisher. Senchenko is hardly a mover of Floyd Mayweather's class, yet he proved tough to find. A straight right of his own brought "oohs" from the crowd.
Hatton had said the "old Ricky" would account well enough for Senchenko. What he needed was less of the "old" and more of the "Ricky". His short-armed flurries lacked coherence, but he started to get through towards the end of the fourth. He clipped Senchenko with a clean right on the ropes but found him harder to hit in the centre of the ring, and showed the characteristic impatience of a fighter nearing the end of a long road, keen either to get it over with or to extend the journey.
Senchenko scored with two regulation rights to the jaw and Hatton slipped to the floor in indisciplined retaliation. When he took a left hook and a succession of jabs, the contest took on a different tone altogether. Midway, this was no longer a celebration, but a rude awakening. There looked to be no energy in Hatton's legs, strength in his punches or conviction in his eyes. As if he had skipped back to his childhood, Hatton was lunging like a novice and a look of desperation masked his battered features.
The crowd, so loud 20 minutes earlier, fell virtually silent. Yet he soldiered on for them, soaking up blows he should have seen coming a fortnight ago, raking Senchenko with the odd hook. And then a red chink of light appeared: a cut under the Ukrainian's left eye. There was still hope. His right cheek was growing blue and tender by the jab, but Hatton barrelled forward, oblivious still to the oncoming traffic. Blood dripped from his swollen lips. He swung, missed, swung, missed. By round eight, the contest had descended into a cruel spectacle.
We had reached the stage where the gathering was thankful Senchenko could not punch like Pacquiao. The unspoken communal wish was that this would end with some semblance of dignity. Perhaps Senchenko – like Larry Holmes against Muhammad Ali – shared the sentiment. But he behaved professionally, hitting hard, boxing cautiously. And then, midway through the ninth, he delivered the blow that ended a dream, a body shot deep into Hatton's midsection that dropped him like a rock. Hatton got up, walked to the ropes, head bent, and if he wasn't crying, he was entitled to. Still they sang: "There's only one Ricky Hatton!" What better fans could a fighter have? They should rise in a chorus now to say, thanks mate, and goodbye.
"I'm really heartbroken," said the fighter. I'm gutted. I'm a champion, I'm a fighter. I'm sick, I worked so hard. He caught me a few times earlier. It was a very good shot." His trainer Bob Shannon said, "He's not 24, he's 34. He looked old at times; you can't beat youth. But whatever he decides to do, the team will stand by him."
There have been better British champions, perhaps. But few braver."
The Guardian
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 28, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
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Toker Villian - ...and politically finance the most vehement anti-drug politicians to preserve their market? No doubt!
"When good become evil and evil becomes good." ~ JC
"Time has come today" ~ The Chambers Brothers
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:07pm PT
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Hey Marlow
tfpu
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Dec 11, 2012 - 10:05pm PT
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STILL, "the Greatest"...
Damn right.
"So I went to talk to Muhammed Ali. He says, 'Jim Brown wants to fight me? Bring him here.'
So I took him to Hyde Park in London, where Ali used to run. Ali said, 'Jimmy, here's what we're going to do: You hit me as hard as you can.' So Brown starts swinging and swinging, and he can't hit him. He's swinging wildly and not even coming close. This goes on for, like, 30 seconds. Then Ali hits him with this quick one-two to his face. Jimmy just stops and says, 'OK, I get the point.'"
-- Boxing promoter Bob Arum, talking about the time Jim Brown considered fighting Ali
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/nfl-great-jimmy-brown-quickly-gave-idea-fight-070258768--box.html
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 11, 2012 - 10:13pm PT
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Could fight her way out of a wet paper sack, but then who could?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jun 26, 2013 - 09:31pm PT
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Henry " Hank " Thurman , heavyweight prize fighter originally from Modesto , passed away from natural causes last week in Santa Monica...Henry fought in Canada and all across the US...Henry had a chance to fight Muhammed Ali but lost a decision to Zoro Folley who was then knocked out by Ali in 7 rounds in Madison Square Garden...Hanks fight record can be found at boxrec.com ...RJ
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jul 18, 2013 - 10:16pm PT
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specialistclimber...Found out Hank , my godfather , worked with Dundee and Johnny Malone..Hank also boxed Rex Layne who later got KO'd by Marciano...The Layne/Marciano fight is on youtube...Looks like back then everything was a brawling slugfest...RJ
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