Golden Boy Fighters Love Conspiracy Theories (and so do we)
Image details: Oscar De La Hoya v Steve Forbes Weigh-In served by picapp.com For all those pundits hoping and desire that Bernard Hopkins would meet go away, retire, and not be heard from again: your desire is not reaching true. Hopkins module not go quietly into that beatific night. He hasn’t announced a next fight but […]
Image details: Oscar De La Hoya v Steve Forbes Weigh-In served by picapp.com
For all those pundits hoping and desire that Bernard Hopkins would meet go away, retire, and not be heard from again: your desire is not reaching true. Hopkins module not go quietly into that beatific night. He hasn’t announced a next fight but he certainly has something to say about Chuck Giampa.
Who’s Chuck Giampa? He is the determine who scored in favor of Joe Calzaghe 116-111. Unlike Bernard, Chuck is leaving the fight game, retiring after scoring over 2,000 bouts. When ESPN.com told Hopkins of Giampa’s feat he responded pointedly, “He retired two weeks too late.”
Bernard also added his own engrossing theory to the mix “Is he effort pressured? Is there something out there that we don’t undergo about right now, same when a politician resigns before [trouble] hits the fan? Or maybe he realized he was meet too shit old to do the judging.”
The forty-three-year-old Hopkins, on the other hand, does not think he’s too shit old to ready on fighting. We wouldn’t have it any other way. We think his performance against Calzaghe proves that he’s still a top ten pound-for-pound. But might he need to yield the Golden Boy stable to intend a fair shake from the judges?
Oscar de la Hoya himself seemed to agree with this statement adding in the same article that “(Golden Boy fighters) have had seven fights in Las Vegas, and when they’ve been close we’ve never got the decision. Why is that?” Presumably Oscar won’t need the refs help tonight against Steve Forbes. Nevertheless, the fight is being held in Carson, Calif. and not Sin City? Is that a coincidence similar to Giamba’s well-timed retirement? Hard to say.
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Clint Bowyer ’steals’ NASCAR race at Richmond
There was a wild finish at terminal night’s race.
RICHMOND, Va. - Richard Childress always tells his drivers that phenomenon occurs when preparation meets opportunity. Clint Bowyer proved the boss right on Saturday night.
Bowyer was a surprise succeeder at Richmond International Raceway, stealing a get that first seemed sure for Denny Hamlin, then Dale Earnhardt Jr. Neither prefabricated it to Victory Lane, though, because of a disorderly ending that saw three drivers denied the trip Bowyer prefabricated to Victory Lane.
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Hamlin, the hometown favorite, ran away with the race and led a record 381 of the 400 laps in search of his first Cup conclusion at Richmond. Nobody came close to challenging him until a unseaworthy right front tire allowed Earnhardt and Kyle Busch to catch him.
The two drivers split Hamlin as they moved past him, with Earnhardt emerging as the cheater with 18 laps to go. Hamlin’s tire finally failed with eight to go, and NASCAR accused him of designedly bringing out the caution that regrouped the field and gave Busch a chance to race Earnhardt for the win.
The two staged a strong battle for the advance when the race resumed, but occurrence between the two cars in turn three sent Earnhardt into the wall.
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Bowyer used the opportunity to slide past both Earnhardt and Busch and into the front for the first time all night. Bowyer then held off Busch on a final restart to score his first Cup conclusion of the season, second of his career.
Here’s the recording of what happened between Earnhardt and Busch terminal night.
I check next to no auto racing these day. Back in the 70’s before I went in the military, I followed NASCAR quite a bit. These life my auto racing is pretty much confining to the Indy 500.
Clint Bowyer won terminal night’s race, he didn’t steal it. Hamlin’s car quit on him, fine. Busch and Earnhardt tangled with each other putting the kibosh with both these driver’s chances. Bowyer decussate the finish distinction first, he’s the winner. Memo to AP- Drop the ’steal shit’
For did Al Unser ’steal’ his 4th Indy 500 get in 1987, when Mario Andretti who was running away with the race for 180 laps, had his race end due to electrical failure?
Did Richard Petty ’steal’ the 1979 Daytona 500 after Cale Yarborough and Donny Allison collided on the final lap? That was the race with the famous fight afterwards that also participating Donnie’s brother Bobby.
I don’t remember anyone saying those races were stolen. The disagreement between A. Unser and Richard Petty versus Bowyer is that they were stars and Bowyer isn’t. So Bowyer gets slighted in his moment of triumph by it being said he stole the race. What a bunch of bull crap.
The only reason I’m composition this, is the ‘Morgan Pressel had the US Open stolen from her’ meme that is still floated by the sport media. Remember the 2005 US Open and Birdie Kim’s bunker shot that won the tournament? The artefact you here it today is that Morgan had it stolen from her. Let me point out a few salient facts.
1- Pressel finished 2 shots behind Kim.
2- Pressel finished tied for 2nd with fellow amateur Brittany Lang.
So even if Birdie hadn’t holed out, and prefabricated bogey or worsened on 18 same almost the entire field did that day, Morgan still would have had to go 18 holes in a playoff with at small Lang, and possibly Kim also.
Yesterday’s broadcast of the LPGA tournament in Oklahoma, mentioned Lang’s 2nd place finish in 2005. For a change it was nice to hear the media remember someone tied Morgan that day.
Note- The sport media has another meme feat about the 2005 US Open also. That Lorena Ochoa forfeited it. Lorena hit 2 balls in the liquid at 18 on Sunday, finishing with a quadruple bogey 8 and 7 over par for the tournament. If Lorena scored what most of the field did on Sunday at 18, bogey she would have finished 4 over. Now if Kim had finished bogey too same the media wishes, how can they say both Ochoa forfeited the 05 Open and Pressel had it stolen from her? Ochoa’s 4 over tops Pressel’s 5 over. The two memes are contradictory.
Bowyer was opportunistic, Kim may have been serendipitous the hole got in the artefact of her ball. When it is all said and done, they are the champs. No member of the media can take that away from them. Give them the respect they are due. For once in Kim’s case, and twice in Bowyer’s, they beat the best at their sport.
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