Doodirty wrote in message <19990228141624.16109.00001...@ng116.aol.com>...
>except it should be Quartey vs  Trinidad,, Ike clearly beat Oscar.

Derrick Brasslett wrote:
> Paul Dalrymple wrote in message <7arlne$...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>...

> >It isn't even clear that an immediate matchup would be economically
> >advisable for either party. Although each staked his claim to
> >welter-supremacy over the past nine days - De La Hoya with his stirring,
> >come-from-behind, split-decision victory over previously unbeaten Ike
> >Quartey in Las Vegas on Feb. 13, and Trinidad with his utter domination of
> >what is left of Pernell Whitaker at Madison Square Garden Saturday night -
> >there is money to be made elsewhere for both.

> I think Kimball is full of it. For ODLH only a rematch with Quartey would
> IMO be more lucrative financially, and Oscar's already let us know how he
> feels about that. For Trinidad, what would be bigger? Sure there's some
> 'money to be made elsewhere' but that's always true. The risk/reward factor,
> not gross earnings,  is what could keep this fight from happening soon.

> >A few days before the Quartey fight, De La Hoya confided that he has
> >encountered increasing difficulty making the 147-pound limit and might soon
> >move up to try for his fifth championship.

> I find it hard to believe that ODLH is really having that much trouble
> making the weight. It's just my opinion and I have nothing to back it up,
> other than my impression that Oscar looked a little soft when he fought
> Quartey. He didn't have the gaunt, tight look of a man watching every morsel
> of food he eats. There's a better explanation of why DLH and Arum want to
> move up...

>  Promoter Bob Arum already has a
> >title shot waiting for the Golden Boy, the WBC junior middleweight crown
> >recently lifted from Keith Mullings by Spaniard Javier Castillejo.

> ... and here it is. They've found a relatively soft weight division just
> 7lbs north of welterweight. Somehow get Rosenblatt into a second title and
> you've got a unification match. Vargas? He won't be the fight the fans want
> to see...

MB wrote:

>         Diego <die...@mindspring.com> wrote:

> >Arrogant is saying that God told him that he will KO Lewis in three
> >rounds, and arrogant is saying that "he is not predicting this, he is
> >telling this."  Hypocritical is, of course, not practicing what you
> >preach.

> Of course NOT.  If this were the definition of hypocritical, then
> EVERYBODY'S a hypocrite.  Nobody lives up to their own principles all the
> time, and most people tend to fail those principles in the same way.  We
> tend to repeat the same mistakes.

> Hypocritical: Pretending to be what you are not; pretending to be better
> than you really are, or to be pious, virtuous, etc, without really being so.

> "Practicing what you preach" has nothing to do with whether or not you are
> being hypocritical.

> be trusted to act by their principles.  Now, if Evander were to go and try
> to defend all of his dubious actions, or to explain them away - instead of
> acknowledging that he's done wrong and that it's still wrong even when he
> does it - then that would be hypocritical.

> Mick
> "Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man."

YENDOR3 wrote in message <19990228160151.23492.00001...@ng-fu1.aol.com>...
>Anybody notice how Will Taylor,the guy who fought Reggie Johnson,looks like
a
>bald snoop doggy dog?