westley

Excellent! I finally got a chance to check this out. The reviews and thoughts were superb, and I'm stunned on his analysis of the opening 10 minutes or so. Very, very cool.

I wrote down a bunch of the other French films that he mentioned as well, and I'm also interested in the Best 1,000 movies list? I guess from what I read it seems that's why he started the blog to begin with?

I saw on his site he's got a type of checklist, but its not exactly what I was looking for. I think I'm going to try to modify it and see some more stuff off this list to broaden my knowledge. There's really not much to do here in summer school, so this will be a welcome diversion.

I'm glad you saw it that way, it shows a keen eye for the sport. It was interesting when we had the fight party at my friend's house because it was myself and two other friends (one, the host has recently got into the sport and is still learning) and the rest were casual fans.

It was interesting while I was sitting next to my friend watching this fight, comparing what we were seeing to what the casuals were seeing. We are seeing Mayweather, dodge, block and parry all of these shots (as compubox showed) and they didn't. At all. The comments coming out of that side of the room were much different than from those of us who scored the fight and are die hards of the sport.

"He needs to jab more" and I thought wow, his jab leaves him open for all the counters Floyd throws and opens up the side of his body for hooks etc. To me, that was clearly why he stopped doing it in the fight.

Go back and see the fight against Corrales, and there are stark similarities in terms of total punch numbers and the distinct lack of a jab, which is probably the most important punch in the sport. Mayweather is that good it forces people to fight like that, as Oscar did in this fight.

For me it was a great fight. I got what I wanted out of it. An entertaining fight and the boxing clinic I thought it would be. For the casual fan it may not have been as great, which leading up to the fight date I thought was going to be the case. Part of the reason Mayweather doesn't have the fan base (that he deserves imo) is his style, irregardless of his controversial (and imo misconstrued) nature he's one of the best fighters I've ever had the pleasure of watching in my lifetime. He's just a boxing purists dream. The casual fan wants some heavyweight who slugs, that's it.

So, are you going to the fight this weekend in Memphis? or are you just going to watch? I got the fight thread already up in the Boxing group.