The Arrow's Path

Well, this is just cool.

I remember now why I left .

A well thought out editorial  on how society now manufactures canned artists.

This article here seems to capture what people are thinking about the Pacman-Mayweather fight. I don't think it was anyone's fault. I've boxed or coached boxing for neigh on 10+ years. I think what people did not understand who know next to nothing about boxing is that this match was never going to be a Rocky film WWF style brawl, despite whatever people thought it was going to be. That's not real boxing. That's thugs duking it out in the Thunderdome: "two men enter, one man leave." Rocky was the worst thing that ever happened to boxing because it ingrained in novice fans' mind that boxing is about going to for the killer head shot to knock the dude out. Very rarely do head shots ever make someone go to the mat. Head shots stun and you go after the gut. It's when you get punched square in the gut that you go down to the mat. These were two extremely good professionals whose strengths were both in the defensive, not offensive, mode of boxing. The...

Very interesting little editorial here that I have harped on before.

It's been a long time since I've heard one .

For those of us with a foot in two different generations, I found this article refreshing.