Low IQ Cavemen Boxing Runs The Sport, But Devin Haney Is Real Boxing! 

By Jimmy James: Low IQ boxing is at an all-time high, and casual fans love it. Most casuals have taken control of boxing and want to see two cavemen thump each other like Mortal Kombat. What is boxing anymore? A bar fight? Two zombies attacking each other? Two unskilled brawlers swinging for the fences like two grizzly bears trying to compete for salmon in Alaska?

Sasquatching is not boxing. Boxing is the art of hitting and not getting hit; it’s called the sweet science for a reason, not the “salty science.” It’s not the art of primitive neanderthals trying to hunt and gather for food in a boxing ring. Banning clinching and ring movement is like going back to Jurassic Park. Why would any boxer with a high IQ want to go back to the Stone Age?

Casuals dare to call Devin Haney and Shakur Stevenson runners because they used their IQs to hit boxers who couldn’t cut the ring well? Learn how to cut a ring, dude! It’s not their fault that Edwin De Los Santos and Jose Ramirez couldn’t cut the ring! Marvin Hagler hunted down Tommy Hearns, and Felix Trinidad broke down Oscar De Hoya, who was running most of the fight! Was Willie Pep a runner? If you laugh at Haney and Shakur for “running,” then Pep was an Olympic champion and world-renowned gold medalist running most of his career.

Benny Leonard was a gazelle; he ran so fast he made cheetahs quit the zoo. Leonard was known for “running” against his opponents. Muhammad Ali ran in some of his fights, and no one called him a track star? You want to see boring? Did you ever watch Muhammad Ali vs. Jimmy Young? You want to watch boring? Watch Scottish pillow-fisted boxer Ken Buchanan, who was another renowned runner like Mexican legend Ruben Olivares, who ran the entire fight backwards, scared for his life, against Canadian boxer Art Hafey in the second fight. Olivares is considered a Mexican great.

French legend Johnny Famechon was Guillermo Rigondeaux’s older brother; he not only ran backwards, but he ran backwards like an injured kangaroo in many of his fights. Colombian legend Miguel Lora was another snooze fest; forget his defensive skills. Did you ever watch his fight with Puerto Rican boxer Rafael Del Valle, who was another runner? I had two double shots of espresso that night so I would not fall asleep.

Argentine legend Nicolino Locche. All he did was move his head like a bobblehead the entire fight against Walmart employees, and ran in most of his fights, throwing six punches per round, and this guy was elevated to be a legendary Latino boxer? No wonder they called him the “untouchable’ because he danced more than he boxed. He made Shakur and Haney look like amateur runners!

You want to see boring fights? Watch British legend Freddie Mills vs. American legend Joey Maxim, but did anyone ever accuse them of “excessive clinching” like Floyd Mayweather vs. Pacquiao? Just like Benny Leonard vs Rocky Arkansas, which I watched in my VHS video collection years ago?  American legends Joey Archer vs. Denny Moyer also had a low-output fight with an honorable award-winning festival. Still, back then, when boxing fans were ¨real men¨ ” they rarely complained about style fixtures.

Jack Dempsey is considered a heavyweight legend, perhaps more so for ducking black boxers like Sam Langford or Harry Wills. However, did you watch his fight against the brawler and heavyweight legend Tommy Gibbons? They clinched so many times that they almost made love that day, July 4, 1923. Independence Day should have been banned after that fight, but we, as proud Americans, still celebrate. Don’t even watch Pep vs. Sandy Saddler 3; “the whisp” literally ran the entire fight like a chicken because he was hurt, “afraid for his life,” knowing he would get knocked out.

But you want to talk about Haney and Shakur being pillow-fisted? Have you ever watched Joe Calzaghe? He had the power of a paperclip. He couldn’t even knock out a wingless fly! And want to talk about a robbery? Focus on hating Calzague when he fought against Robin Reid and Bernard Hopkins after the judges gave him a gift decision, in case you decide to accuse Haney because he beat crybaby and the failed hope of Vassyl Lomachenko, who is only a commercial legend that lost most of his vital fights! At least Sergei Dereyenchenko rarely cried.

Maxie Rosembloom, the legendary light heavyweight champion, was not only a roadrunner, but he had feather bones in his punches, thus his nickname “Maxie Slappy.” Other pillow-fisted legends include Jackie Fields, Billy Conn, Joey Archer, Art Aragon, and hundreds more who loved to run and clinch in the ring.

Just watch the American greats Joey Guillardello vs Gene Fullmer, a brawler vs. counter-puncher. The fight was so boring that it made the Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull fight shine as a beacon of hope in boxing. Wasn’t Canelo running against Golovkin in the first fight? But no one ever wants to mention the greats of the past committing the same boxing sins that they accuse Haney and Shakur of wrongdoing in one fight they didn’t like, like the Klitschko brothers, who hugged their opponents more than Barney the Dinosaur.

The lesson here is that boxing is about styles, and it has always been that way. I love boxing because it has different styles, it’s not just two brain-dead, blood-thirsty brawlers throwing tortillas at each other to see who acts more like the stronger Neanderthal. Boxing will always sell because it has never been intended to represent different styles; it’s a misconception to think otherwise. Boxing sells because of racism, nationalism, male pride, and money bets, which is why it will continue to thrive with or without Turki Alalshikh.

The Mexican style of boxing is a myth, a fairy tale, and a bedtime story. Low IQ fake boxing celebrity Rocky Balboa was not Mexican, and he represented what Mexican and Latino boxers aspired to represent in the 80s. That style existed during the Iron Age of boxing before Mexicans and Latinos had a real presence in the sport. Boxers like American heavyweight Jack Sharkey or middleweight Mickey Walker were legendary brawlers. French legend Marcel Thill and Canadian boxer Lou Brouillard had perfected that style. Mike O’Dowd was a legendary brawler and father of Golovkin – a fighter who ducked Andre Ward, Demetrius Andrade, and Erislandy Lara, but had no problem making Kell Brook jump two weight classes – who never claimed to have a Mexican style, as Mexican fighters were still developing.

Jack Dempsey, a renowned black ducker like Canelo Alvarez, was a brawler like Tommy Gibbons, Soldier Battlefield, and Terry McGovern, and hundreds more like them existed before Julio Cesar Chavez. Brawling existed decades before they decided to call it ¨Mexican Style¨, it was just called old-fashioned ¨brawling, ¨ and it was the most common type of style for decades before Battling Shaw, one of the first Mexican boxers, appeared on the scene. And yes! Jake LaMotta and Ike Williams are the “papi chulos” of Julio Cesar Chavez. The Mexicans today practice the Canadian, American, and French styles of brawling.

Ryan Garcia vs. Haney was never about boxing; it was about racism and male pride. It was about Jim Jeffries vs. Jack Johnson. It was about Tim Cribbs vs. Tom Molineaux, a fight of racial identity in England, akin to the Canadian legend Tommy Burns vs. Jack Johnson, and similar to the legendary bantamweight George Dixon vs. Frank Erne. Likewise, the Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling fight was about pride, nationality, and race, much like the examples mentioned above. The same casuals who laugh at Haney were the ones who hated Joe Louis and the ones who were quiet when many white boxers ducked the infamous Black Murderers Row.

Latinos would ride Ryan like a pony. If he fought Haney again, they wouldn´t care if he got dropped by Rolando Romero again and again in an infinite loop. They didn’t care about his Osterine abuse and certification of cheating by VADA. They claim Haney ran against Jose Ramirez, but would watch Haney fight Ryan again to see him lose, despite his performance with a brawler like Ramirez, who failed to watch videos of Joe Frazier and Tony Zale cutting a ring effectively. Haney is not the one who trains with six boxers that tested positive for steroids, but somehow it was Haney’s fault they popped dirty over and over again, in an infinite loop under the same trainer.

Money is not about styles, but today the Latinos want to force low IQ boxing on boxing itself, but without boxing, they are not good at bare-knuckle fighting; that is why they stick with boxing instead. Leave Haney and Shakur alone; there is nothing wrong with their styles. If you want to ban 125 years of boxing styles because low IQ brawlers (sasquatching) require “special needs”, then let’s provide them with assistance in a facility with “special needs” to learn how to cut a ring. Stop whining about changing the rules because “sasquatching” like Emanuel Navarrete and Arnslanbek Makhudov won’t work with real boxers like Haney and Shakur, who were declared guilty for the same sins that hundreds of legends committed in the past, from all races and nationalities. I am a boxing fan. Stop the hypocrisy, or if not, shut up and join Barenuckle fighting.