#Pound for pound

[biteofcherry]

19 & 21 for pound for pound Ari and his reader? 😏

Pound for pound

19. Do they wear each other’s clothes/jewelry?

Ari sure makes you wear his shirt, or just his jacket, seeing as he made sure your clothes were unavailable when you finally rolled out of bed 😏 I think he'd also put his expensive watch on your wrist when you're sitting there naked in the middle of the rumpled bed, pouting at him when he says he has to take care of a business meeting and no, you can't go anywhere. He slides that watch on your wrist and tells you to keep your eye on 5pm, because he'll be back then and you should be ready for him again.

21. Do they enjoy domestic life?

Domestic life with Ari is not exactly the domestic life you've been envisioning for yourself, before you got stood up at the altar. It's more lavish. Meals are prepped for you, cleaning and laundry done. It surprises you that domestic life with Ari is much more about spending time together (in various ways, not only fucking) than about housewifeing. Even when you remind yourself that he's keeping you to settle the debt, it doesn't change the fact Ari wants you curled in his lap while you watch the sunset and he makes you talk about your life and adventures.

[obsessedbyneon]

16 pounds? That's cheap!

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[kulkulcan]

The greatest Ukrainian Boxers ever

I try to make a list of the best (or most successful) boxer from the Ukraine pound for pound:

Vitaly Klitschko

Wassili Lomaschenko

Alexander Usyk

Wladimir Klitschko

Sergey Dzinziruk

Wladimir Sidorenko

Artem Dalakian

Viktor Postol

Oleksandr Gwozdyk

Andreas Kotelnik

Notable mentionings: Vyacheslav Senchenko, Serge Derevschenko, Yuri Nuzchenko, Alexander Gurov

[dantesinfernoh3ll]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Pound for Pound by Septimius Ferdian H

[tiger-grace]

Flash: what the hell happened with no metas in gotham?

Batman: Signal is a special case, I trust him solely as one of gotham’s vigilantes-

Flash: What? No. I’m talking about the blue one. I saw him lift like, 1000 pounds the other day.

Batman: … it was that or therapy

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Customer: AN HOMAGE TO "POUNDING THE PAVEMENT" DMV: POUND THE PUSSY? Verdict: DENIED

[lemon-wedges]

The last version of this post got nuked by tumblr so i tried cropping it a little more lol. lets see if this one survives

"an unfortunate side affect of sleeping with the king I guess...."

uncropped version on my patreon

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Artur Beterbiev is receiving his just-due

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Published: January 24, 2024

Entering the Ring Magazine pound-for-pound rankings at number five in the week following Artur Beterbiev's seven-round beatdown of Callum Smith, it appears the Russian is finally receiving the proper credit and respect he has always deserved. With a 100% knockout ratio, everybody always knew Beterbiev was a light-heavyweight destroyer and a real force to be reckoned with. The extent of how good he is, all of the brilliant, cerebral intricacies of just how he operates in the ring, with his feet, feints, and jab, is now being recognized. He has always been a talent worthy of being recognized as a modern-day great and a top-five pound-for-pound star, and this is now becoming clearer with time.

Each worthy number-one contender who gets brushed aside, regardless of how much readiness and determination they bring into the ring, further highlights how great a champion Beterbiev is.

Against Callum Smith, two top-class pugilists with fight-ending power entered the ring in an interesting clash of styles, with potential jeopardy for both men.

In the end, it was an exhibition of differences in levels. Smith is world-class. Beterbiev is the elite of the elite. Possibly a light heavyweight all-time great in the making.

Great champions dispatch number 1 contenders and other world champions emphatically; the more you doubt them in their most significant fights, the bigger statement they make to show you how great they really are. That is what Beterbiev has done, again and again, during his destructively trail-blazing professional career. Oleksandr Gvozdzyk, Marcus Browne, Joe Smith Jr, Callum Smith. All were seen as legitimate dangers and fell to the same fate. They were simply out-willed and overpowered in a manner never previously experienced.

The fight against Smith was initially scheduled to take place over the summer, but Beterbiev's jaw infection postponed the fight.

How would the subsequent surgery affect Beterbiev's ability to take a punch? Alongside Beterbiev's incoming 39th birthday and all of the miles on the clock across his amateur and professional career, the ingredients were seemingly there for an upset.

Far from the truth, Smith stood at 6ft 3in with a 78inch reach, with real power, yet he was no match for Beterbiev. Usually a slow starter, the Russian backed Smith up to the ropes and unleashed hard combinations in the opening 20 seconds of the fight and, showed this was going to be a long night for the Scouser. Smith had never touched the canvas in his amateur or professional career, but when Beterbiev was letting his heavy leather go in the seventh round, Smith hit the canvas twice in that fateful seventh.

The Russian has scary power, and when you combine that with excellent ring IQ, discipline, relaxation in the ring, high work rate, control of distance, solid fundamentals, and educated, relentless pressure, Beterbiev is a formidable force at 175 lbs.

Heading into the Beterbiev vs Smith fight, Smith had only fought six rounds in three years, but in those six rounds, he had displayed his brutal two-fisted power at his new weight to produce vicious back-to-back knockouts. At a more comfortable weight, one in which the Liverpudlian can allow his big frame to fill out more naturally, Smith was deemed a legit threat. Many genuinely believed that with a potential Dmitry Bivol undisputed showdown on the horizon, this was a dangerous fight for Beterbiev. Ultimately, it turned out to be a very handy warm-up for the Russian.

Beterbiev is just special. He made a very legitimate, threatening contender look ordinary, and that is what great fighters do.

If Smith had beaten Beterbiev, it would have qualified as one of the greatest victories by a British fighter in history. In itself, that highlights the challenge of beating Beterbiev.

There appear to be only two foes with a legitimate chance of defeating Beterbiev right now… Father Time or Bivol.

Beterbiev vs Bivol is the one the world wants to see now. It's one of the best pure match-ups boxing has to offer. Both men are long-reigning champions with multiple title defenses against nearly all of the legit contenders of their era. The fight will be a great clash of styles between the crafty, disciplined pressure fighter in Beterbiev, and a gifted technical boxer in Bivol. The winner will put himself in the pantheon of light-heavyweight all-time greats alongside the likes of Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, and Bob Foster.

This undisputed showdown fits the profile of what Turki Alal Shaikh is looking for in his quest to turn Saudi Arabia into the world's premier fight capital.

Beterbiev is not perfect, of course. Muhammad Ali has been dropped, hurt, and beaten before. Roberto Duran surrendered mid-fight once and was also knocked out clean, landing face-down on the canvas. Yet, Ali and Duran are two of the greatest fighters to ever grace boxing. They have some of the best wins in the entire history of the sport, and their great moments far outnumbered and over-took those moments of shortcomings and vulnerabilities.

Beterbiev is a fearsome champion, about as scary and formidable a champion as you will find in boxing today, but he is by no means infallible. In 2014, Beterbiev was dropped in a flash knockdown by Jeff Page Jr. In 2018, Beterbiev was floored heavily by Callum Johnson in a four-round firefight, and against Anthony Yarde last year, the veteran went through periods of slight discomfort to pull through against his younger, determined foe.

Beterbiev has his vulnerabilities, but he knows how to win. Whenever he meets adversity, he usually responds almost immediately by going through the gears and aggressively re-gaining the upper hand in the fight, and when you have a fighter who is extremely powerful and strong, with the smarts, toughness, and all of the desirable intangibles in abundance, you have a champion that is incredibly hard to beat. It will take a special fighter to defeat Beterbiev.

As well as combating what Beterbiev presents in the ring, there is now the aura and composure of Beterbiev that presents just as much of an issue for his opponents. To share a ring with Beterbiev perceptively makes you the next highlight knockout reel on a perfect knockout record, and there is an uneasy inevitability to Beterbiev fights, which is bound to add to the anxiety of opponents. Against Smith, an already small ring would have felt so much smaller with Beterbiev's ability to cut off the ring and Smith's own fears. The man to beat Beterbiev will not only have to nullify Beterbiev's in-ring capabilities but must carry a fearless mindset that cannot be tamed under immense pressure.

"It's because of luck. It's my coach. Our team works hard with me, maybe that's why, too. But I think it's because of luck," said Beterbiev after the Smith fight.

If we are to believe him, and it would take a very brave man to openly not do so, Beterbiev is the luckiest man in the world.

(Featured Photo: Mikey Williams/Top Rank)

[yujateaandpi]

Yup, that's Ford's niece.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Dinosaur freezes a large amount of food and considers himself very well prepared indeed to recover from surgery.

(I don't normally add patreon links to posts, but I will this time since I'm about to miss a few weeks of work. Thank you to my patrons for making that a less bad thing financially than it would be otherwise!)

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[dantesinfernoh3ll]

You will never ever hear Canelo mention the name of Artur Beterbiev ☠️💀

[pangur-and-grim]

Belphie is so small. for sure, he's smaller than a molecule.

[kulkulcan]

Best British boxer of 2001 to 2010

Joe Calzaghe

Johnny Nelson

Lennox Lewis

Ricky Hatton

David Haye

Clinton Woods

Junior Witter

Carl Froch

Amir Khan

Alex Arthur

I locked out Nicky Cook and Enzo Maccarinelli.