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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Styles make fights. Give me one person on that list that Tyson would be able to beat and why, and the closest opponent they faced to Tyson, and the closest opponent Tyson fought to that person.
  2. No offense kid, but you need to watch a few thousand boxing matches cause you don’t know what you’re talking about. Marciano is on the list because he’s the most like Tyson. The others are on the list because they have things in common that Tyson in his prime had a hard time with. If you think Larry Holmes in his prime would have “get wiped” by Mike Tyson, I’m gonna go ahead and guess that you have never actually watched a Holmes fight from his prime. Or the others. And those are just the heavyweights, and Charlie Burley, who you’ve never heard of, probably could have knocked out Tyson, and that’s giving up 60 pounds. But he could have gone the distance if not, because Tyson couldn’t hit him. Shit, I was being generous. Archie Moore probably could’ve beaten Mike Tyson.
  3. Like the years where he was duckingTim Witherspoon and Holyfield because they were problematic matchups? all the other guys had years where they were nearly unstoppable too.
  4. Yes based on career, but then you have to compare prime to prime. Tyson on his best day would struggle to beat on their best day: -Ali - Marciano - Joe Louis - Jack Johnson - Holyfield - Jack Dempsey - Larry Holmes - Tim Witherspoon - Lennox Lewis - Joe Frazier - Sonny Liston
  5. Oh, I see. The way they feel about their own lives is wrong. You’re saying they are too stupid to understand why their wage and 401K growth makes up for the higher price of food and home prices accelerating away from them. Sure, the entire middle third of the adult population have investments and savings totaling less than $50k, but look at that tiny pile grow! Sure, groceries went up by like 20%, but incomes went up by almost half that much, and they have iPhones, what’s their problem? Great argument, you convinced me.
  6. For you (and me). Not for most middle class people or people on fixed incomes.
  7. That’s true. One of my wife’s cousins is a big Dem donor. I was talking about some retired teachers saying they were better off financially when Trump was president, and he said “yeah but they are lying, the economy is in great shape. This is about race.”
  8. First, Liz Warren’s ideas are pretty naive. She’s got this lawyer’s notion that we can somehow use regulation to rid the economy of a bunch of widely used products and financial strategies and wind the clock back to how the economy worked in 1965. Second more importantly however, is that it’s not that the unwashed can’t relate, it’s that they are being talked about rather than talked to. Trump and Bernie address their constituencies directly in words that are clear, immediate and certain, even if nonsensical in Trump’s case. Democrats *refer* to those constituencies, as in “I’m going to create an opportunity economy (whatever the fuck that is) and help the middle class.”
  9. Well it doesn’t seem very mysterious that more poor and working class people stopped voting Democrat and started voting Republican around the same time that Democrats stopped talking to poor and working class people and Republicans started talking to them.
  10. But they aren’t incorrect. Their perception isn’t wrong. They are correctly perceiving an economy that is unfair, inequitable and distorted. Unfortunately Democrats have lost the stomach for the politics of class, and Republicans filled the void, and the media doesn’t have the vocabulary or incentives to frame the issue that way.
  11. The heavyweight division has always been the worst division in boxing and it’s never been worse than it is today. Middles and lighter have always been the way to watch boxing and are still pretty good. UFC bores me most of the time. Sugar Ray Robinson is the GOAT. Ali was probably the best Heavyweight, although he is getter there on style points because he was banned from the sport for a large part of his physical prime. Tyson isn’t part of the GOAT conversation. He’s not even top 10 all-time heavyweight. You’re welcome
  12. Did someone say imports?
  13. That’s a lot of words to say someone is part of the Federalist Society
  14. Tyson doesn’t look right walking out.
  15. That seems bad
  16. same energy
  17. Wait how far behind am I
  18. This Goyat dude is fun. Barrios-Ramos is a fight of the year candidate.
  19. To me, this is Mike Tyson's best fight. A knockout of the great Pinklon Thomas in 6. For the record, this fight was a great example of the smart money getting it wrong because ALL the real boxing guys, myself included thought that Pink was too big, too strong, and just too good a boxer for Tyson to cut down to size. Do not skip to the 6th round. This is Tyson's masterpiece, and the areas where he struggles in this fight have a lot to do with why he never fought Tim Witherspoon and why his team ducked Holyfield until it was impossible not to. Also Angelo Dundee's meltdown at the doctor after the 1st round is pretty great.
  20. The way that guy pronounces the long Ō is incredibly grating. If I was on a jury I would pass a note to the judge requesting that guy shut the fuck up.
  21. Who could have seen that coming
  22. There's nothing super complicated, I just think about who benefits and put down some hedges (however small) aligned to how they benefit. The key thing is that the cost of the risk you take is a lot smaller than the upside if things go that way. You aren't fucking anyone over, though. It's more like buying an umbrella (or for that matter a gun), just in case.
  23. After the 2016 election I came to the rather self-evident realization that chaotic political trends produce asymmetric benefit. In other words, that whereas stable and more or less equitable politics in a Democracy tend to be slightly detrimental to a few and incrementally beneficial to most, chaotic and inequitable politics are incrementally damaging to most people and spectacularly beneficial to a few. Duh!At that time, I made a conscious decision to hedge my bets accordingly. Since then, if good things happen and it costs me a little, I’ll see that as a sort of tithe. If bad things happen and I benefit, I’m in a better position to take care of my family and fight the good fight.
  24. He is legit enough for a novelty fight in the worst division at the weakest point in the history of a dying sport. btw- for those of you looking for a quick knockout by Tyson: they are wearing 14oz gloves, and the rounds are only 2 minutes. These are celebrity boxing rules. I’d be surprised if anything more than feelings get hurt.
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