Dan-cat wrote:SnookerFan wrote:I like boxing, but does it really matter if he is Ali or Tyson, for bucks sake?
He's like Ronnie.
Lolz. You really have a thing about comparing sports stars don't you?
Actually, with boxing, it's for a slightly different reason.
Usually, it's because I feel snooker has an inferiority complex. Especially when commentators do it. Look at when they were comparing Ursenbacher with Federer during The Crucible. I mean, for bucks sake, just because they're both Swiss. That's literally the only similarity between the two. It just feels like they're bringing tennis into it for no reason other than so they can compare snooker to a more popular sport. It's like when Hazel ran out when Ronnie had broken the 'majors' record, and started blathering on about what Tiger Woods had done in his career. Who cares? It isn't relevant.
With boxing though, I'm more annoyed because it's such a cliche. I've heard most other sports that I've watched been compared to boxing, and most of the time the time it's no accurate . To be fair, I wasn't having a go at Holden particularly, and I'm not saying it was a bad comparison. Holden actually knows quite a lot about boxing, so that was me just being me. A lot of people who make the comparison know a lot less about boxing than Holden does.
For example, I've heard snooker matches be compared to "a prize-fight where both boxers are trading blows". That annoys me, because it isn't what boxing is about. Rarely boxers stand in the ring and take it in turns to hit each other. Boxing is as much about avoiding your opponents blows as administering your own. So it's a bad comparison. Also, there's no way that a snooker match is like trading blows. If the first player gets a century, and the second player then gets a century, they've both won a frame. A better comparison would be a boxer winning the first round, then his opponent winning the second. Trading blows would be like potting a red, then his opponent runs to the table and pots a red before he has a chance to pot the colour. Which doesn't happen in snooker either.
I know it's my problem rather than anybody else's though. I should just do what I do when Dennis Taylor continually waffles about golf. I mean, that's just white noise as this point, I barely notice he does it any more.