- 11 May 2015 09:03
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I watched this fight online once HBO or whoever it was decided to release the rights. As someone who isn't familiar with boxing, I thought I'd do my own personal experiment and see if the scores awarded every round reflected my sentiments of whom I thought excelled.
By the end of the twelfth round, I was no more enlightened than I was at the outset.
It seems a very strategic sport, and the dominator is essentially equipped with a stronger mind to convince a large, yet sheepish crowd 'that they won'.
On pure physicality, it appears that Mayweather is a better boxer. Some of his punches were so quick, I seemed to miss them. Pacquiao resembles a less restrained, more emotional Mayweather..the facet of his personality that Mayweather tries to subdue.
I still don't get boxing. But I can respect it...I guess.
By the end of the twelfth round, I was no more enlightened than I was at the outset.
It seems a very strategic sport, and the dominator is essentially equipped with a stronger mind to convince a large, yet sheepish crowd 'that they won'.
On pure physicality, it appears that Mayweather is a better boxer. Some of his punches were so quick, I seemed to miss them. Pacquiao resembles a less restrained, more emotional Mayweather..the facet of his personality that Mayweather tries to subdue.
I still don't get boxing. But I can respect it...I guess.
The real problem of humanity is that we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology - Edward Wilson