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Social WR Lounge v262: Pansy Division

What mini power do you choose?

  • You can always magically add 15 minutes to anything you're supposed to be on time to

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • In two conversations a day you can effortlessly make small talk that goes well

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • Three times a month you can go an entire day without needing to use the bathroom

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • Four times a month you can feel completely full without needing to eat

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • Five times a month you can fall asleep perfectly when you decide too

    Votes: 26 65.0%
  • Total voters
    40
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Maréchal said:
Any of you play fantasy football ? Late round QBs- safford , burrow , donald , Fitzpatrick* ( how do you rank them? Find myself being able to make strong cases for each)

*if you don't think fitz puts up quality numbers for fantasy (considering his adp is late 12th/ early 13th ... don't bother chiming in)
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i was in a league with sherdog friends for a couple years even though i know nothing about football. all i can say is nick chubb is good. that's all i've got.
 
Deorum said:
There was very little actually 'sweet' about him, he was a fucking savage man and absolutely brutalized people during his illustrious past-prime middleweight run. I always described him as "Puncher-Boxer" rather than the inverse.
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I think the sweetness is related to how graceful he was. But, yeah, it was a savage, wild grace. Not like a cheetah running down and killing an antelope either, it's a particularly human grace.
 
The Diplomat said:
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This show was just before my time but I did end up catching reruns of it. I was flipping channels one day and I heard Peggy speak and thought "man she is so familiar, where have I seen her before?"

Turns out I hadn't seen her before but I did hear her as Turanga Leela. From then on I would catch reruns when it was on and its a pretty great show. Kelly Bundy was more conventionally attractive as the young blonde but Peggy had a je ne sais quoi to her
 
Khabib Khanate said:
This show was just before my time but I did end up catching reruns of it. I was flipping channels one day and I heard Peg speak and thought "man she is so familiar, where have I seen her before?"

Turns out I hadn't seen her before but I did hear her as Turanga Leela. From then on I would catch reruns when it was on and its a pretty great show.
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Yep, she's Leela. She was also Hyde's mom on That 70's Show.

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Maréchal said:
No love for sweet pea vs haugen /nelson/jlr?

Hell his draw against jcc was quality boxing?
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He's probably my favorite boxer of all-time and always fun to compare and contrast with Duran (also in my top five); had a really strong albeit understated level of opposition too.

03/88: Jose Luis Ramirez (100-6) [Top 3 LW; WBC champ]
02/89: Greg Haugen (23-1) [Top 3 LW; IBF champ]
04/89: Louie Lomeli (24-0) [Top 10 LW]
08/89: Jose Luis Ramirez (102-7) [Top 3 LW; vacant WBC]
02/90: Freddie Pendleton (24-16) [Top 5 LW]
05/90: Azumah Nelson (32-1) [SFW Champ; #6 P4P] (@135)
08/90: Juan Nazario (22-2) [Top 3 LW; WBA champ]
02/91: Anthony Jones (26-2) [Top 5 LW]
07/91: Poli Diaz (32-0) [Top 5 LW]
10/91: Jorge Paez (38-3) [Top 3 LW]
07/92: Rafael Pineda (28-1) [Top 2 LWW; IBF champ]
03/93: Buddy McGirt (59-2) [WW Champ; #4 P4P]
09/93: Julio Cesar Chavez (87-0) [LWW Champ; #1 P4P] (@145)
10/94: Buddy McGirt (64-3) [Top 3 WW]
03/95: Julio Cesar Vasquez (53-1) [Top 2 LMW; WBC champ]
04/96: Wilfredo Rivera (23-0 [Top 10 WW]
09/96: Wilfredo Rivera (23-1) [Top 10 WW]
04/97: Oscar De La Hoya (23-0) [LWW Champ; #2 P4P] (@147)
10/97: Andrey Pestreyaev (20-1) [Top 10 WW]
02/99: Felix Trinidad (33-0) [Top 2 WW; #4 P4P; IBF champ]

Nobody on Whitaker's 135 ledger as good as '72 Buchanan or '74 DeJesus aside from Azumah Nelson - a better overall fighter than either - who was challenging for the title as the guy at super featherweight. However, he beat far more of the ordinary top five rated guys of his era, contender types where nothing in particular stands out as far as ability goes. And by about twice as many as Roberto fought in the 1970s. A faded Jose Luis Ramirez is still a good scalp, and the absolutely dominating fashion he did it in also boosts.

If Duran is a Top 5 ATG lightweight most notably for the dominating fashion in which he ruled, then so is Whitaker. Performances such as Haugen, Ramirez II and Nelson were absurdly good. Nazario too I guess considering he one-punch KO'ed him to unify the division. Most of his big legacy work in terms of top wins obviously took place post-135 in beating McGirt (x2), JCC and Vasquez, thoroughly dominating Chavez and McGirt (in the rematch). The De La Hoya and Trinidad fights were fucking ballsy. He went the distance with a broken jaw for six rounds against Tito. Imagine he'd won both of those and not just the Oscar fight. :D

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