Media Influence in Boxing

Today you have HBO 24/7 that promotes fights that are 90% mis-matches but the hype, and underdog, and stories... all it does is cause mis-direction like a magician. You lose the number one thing, how to handicap fights. At your disposal watching fights is all you need. Yes occassions you have boxers with personal problems (Tapia) so you have to consider. What do I car about the houses they live, the cars they drive, small highlight clips from fights and training, and mostly talk.
Back to Margarito, yes he has great stamina and relentless, but the fact remains he has NO punching power. Even if he is 20lbs heavier than Cotto, when a fighter is out-boxed and has weak punches... his size makes him a punching bag.
You want soap-opera entertainment, watch 24/7. You want the reality, watch every fight of a fighter in order several times. Even most boxers won't do it, but to me it's exciting and the #1 factor in betting a fight. I trained fighter that hated watching tapes. The reason I found often is they miss the little things and the fight is boring. For instance, a fighter that points his front foot inward is very susceptible to a left hook (both orthodox), like Mayweather does and rolls because by the time a fighter has his feet straight, he got hit 1 to 3 times.

BTW- It is "Johnny Tapia". The reason I mention is for the non-boxing enthusiast that may have seen "Tapia" on Marco Barrera's trunks (it's his mother's maiden name, so he wears it).
Back to Johnny: I copied the paragraph below about his childhood at this poor guy was talented but had a super rough life.
"Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and left for dead by her assailant. Tapia was awakened by her screams and saw her chained to the back of a pick-up truck. He tried to alert others in his household, but no one believed him. His mother was later found by the police and taken to the hospital after she had crawled 100 yards to a road. She died four days after the attack without regaining consciousness. Raised thereafter by his grandmother, Tapia turned to boxing at the age of nine."

In 2002, Barrera fought Tapia and people were confused why Barrera was wearing the name Tapia and the average person thought Johhny was Marco. This is why I mentioned it. For the record, Barrera won 12 round UD.
Also, Tapia lost to Barrera, and two close decisions against Paulie Ayala who was a very under-rated fighter (his 3 losses:Morales, Barrera & an upset to a Japanese fighter left him 35-3), an upset KO and a SD loss to Archuleta.
Back then the Bantamweight to Flyweight had so much talent. Now a handful a fighters dominate, like Donaire, Gamboa, & Mares.. I didn't mention Broner as he will fight at lightweight unless he gets a big payday matchup against Gamboa or Donaire but I wouldn't hold your breath.

 tapia's father was not murdered while his mother was pregnant, they were actually reunited a few years ago.  check out the tapia autobiography mi vida loca.  in this book he tells all, in tapia's prime he was one of the best(I would rate him in the top 75 ever), history will forget his brilliants unfortanitley,   I have 17 tapia fights on tape, the internet only has a few, I will work on downloading the fights I have of tapia in his prime, that way people that are interested can see the truth.

thesoulpurpose: That's like one of the few copy-paste I used from another source besides my memory. I even stated previously
" I copied the paragraph below about his childhood at this poor guy was talented but had a super rough life."