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Bill Russell showed up to talk to Cool...
Can’t argue, this and the suitcase both superb....I like signal 30 from season 6...lane drops Pete with a smokin joe Frazier left hook....”mr Campbell, we’re going to address that insult...you’re a griiiiimy little pimp!”
The Hobo Code, season 1, that’s when I was sold on the show...
Ferg Donnelly vs. John Sears
Winner gets steely dan tickets...
Not the one...and do we have any madman-10 sightings?
Especially after salami went all Boom Boom Mancini on the teacher’s boyfriend at the dance...could’ve kept it quiet until that happened....
Great show...acting was average at times, but cool storylines and as a native, cool to see late 70s/early 80s inner city Los Angeles ...
Wolfe perry\rutherford could ball...
Credits schmredits....power forward in NBA or a hospital orderly?...I’ll take owning the boards with Moses Malone and downing the Lakers then Celtics in the finals....
Betting NBA ain’t a joke...bran the man thought he found an easy win with an even spread against an easy mark in the name of a schoolyard bookie...like that little punk had 2 or 3 large to fund his operation with a pre-black berry organizer (did that thing have WiFi or what?)....
Nat liked to get down on some action, so he probably had to cover Brando or Nat gets cut off and can’t bet the Shrine game (betting college all star and senior bowl games a sure sign of degeneracy).....
That’s a lot of megaburgers, especially when nat practically gives them away to the gang...
Saw both Ward/Kovalev fights, good scraps, too bad both are mired in controversy...
First one, not so bad, it was close, thought Kovalev won close, not bothered either way, other than Ward thinking he won going away....second fight, a shytshow, a display of not necessarily crossing the line (or beltline), but of stepping right on the line...
PEDs I normally don’t care about but in boxing it’s totally different than other sport for obvious reasons....Ward did bulk up a little moving to 175, but nothing substantial from what I saw...Ward on the shelf for some time so weight gain as you age is not uncommon...I haven’t read or heard any credible reports about Ward and suspected ped use....
Chocolatito/Sor Rungvisai?...though it’s just a few pounds, Gonzalez lost strength and some explosiveness moving up a division and Sor Rungvisai is a thick super fly, should go to 118....haven’t seen anything, once again, credible, on Chocolatito, though I’m not an expert on enhancers....
Actually thought Gonzalez won the first fight...such is the subjective nature of scoring in pro boxing...
Andre Ward?
Roman Gonzalez?
Are we to assume everyone is trying to gain an advantage, and having Victor Conte around might be a bad look?
Both were cool, liked the first more....the second, only watched once, don’t remember much other than the main shyt....a little light on memorable scenes that didn’t involve a nostalgic twist, which looks like what Creed installments will be once Balboa is inevitably done....
Don’t know if that’ll work, but I’ll watch, maybe just go all cartoon like the Rocky series after 2 and get Clubber Lang’s son, then Buddy Shaw’s kid— Apollo called Shaw scared when he was looking for a fight before he got Balboa....Joe Frazier wanted that smoke (no pun), maybe Marvis has a kid and Smokin’ Joe’s grandson can get some...
Balboa could’ve been confused, he was just learning to spell “zoo” and improve his reading skills...
This was a good continuation of the series....boxing, in general, has plenty of down on his luck stories and yes, Creed and Rocky I have similarities....if Creed II is any indication, the series may fall because something in the drama and storytelling is missing....
Hope not...
Beane learned enough from Brand/DePodesta to implement the system in Boston....plus, as we see now in MLB, big pockets will fix the few things the system misses, provided the gm doesn’t go apeshyt because he has an owner who’ll spend...
Brand/DePodesta got the dodger job for a spell...I think he now works for the Cleveland Browns...
Nah, for one, Balboa still understandably hung up on his late wife...and two, as he’s about to do the deed, goes limp after seeing the spirit of Mickey and his weak legs mantra....nothing spells a downed dingus more than the image of an old Burgess Meredith....trust me, and don’t ask how I know...
I think the soviets just played Creed and the American media, couple that with The Master of Disaster’s overconfidence and dismissive attitude and next thing you know you have ringside’s Stu Nahan announcing “...Creed is down and he could be badly hurt...”....thanks, Dr Nahan...
I mean, the punching machine display and pushing Creed at the press conference aside, The King of Sting just thought Drago was an amateur, “strong...but big and clumsy...I know I can beat him.”...Balboa saw something, but Creed and Tony the trainer didn’t see it....Creed and Tony, I think, finally saw it when Apollo foolishly tried to bang gloves with Drago after the refs instructions, as you see Tony’s face in the background and The Count of Monte Fisto appearing a bit spooked after Drago’s Oscar worthy “you will lose” line...
Fight opens, The Dancing Destroyer moving good, lands some ok jabs, a few rights, nothing much but still scoring, while Drago does nothing but follow The Prince of Punch, looking robotic and quite amateurish...patriotic crowd going fervently nuts when suddenly Drago’s trainer yells something in Russian and the Siberian Bull unleashes on Creed a right hand that would make Earnie Shavers, Lennox Lewis and Deontay Wilder jealous...that left wasn’t bad either...
Then Tony screaming and spitting after the round, “...this is supposed to be an EXHIBITION! YOU UNDERSTAND!?!?l AN EXHIBITION!!”....after all, the Godfather of Soul James Brown opened this show!...they just didn’t get it, the Soviets didn’t come for the show or to mess around— this Cold War just got hot!
Soviets probably had Drago sandbag during some amateur tourneys to not attract too much attention to their behemoth...plus, depending what timeline we use, the Americans could have possibly been ignorant to some Soviet boxers because of the 80 and 84 Olympic boycotts...the US and USSR did have face offs in those days, but it was suspected that each country withheld some of their best fighters in those side tourneys as to not expose the other side to their ace fighters before the Olympic or World Amateur tourneys...
Also, what can be said about the script, other than this movie plays out like a montage or an MTV video....still, it was a fun ride...
And, unfortunately, boxers die from damage received in the ring...this Creed situation looked eerily similar to Griffith/Paret, as Paret never left the ring conscious or alive (maybe alive, can’t remember offhand)...not uncommon in those situations to see a fighter collapse AFTER he leaves the ring....