Showing posts with label Marciano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marciano. Show all posts

08 June 2026

Can Refs and Judges from N.A.T.O. Member Countries Judge a Usyk Fight Fairly?

 People wonder if refs and judges from N.A.T.O. members would allow a Ukrainian heavyweight to lose. I was considering Archie Moore's fight against Marciano- Marciano's second round knockdown and the slow ten count and drying of his gloves by the ref giving him extra moments to recover. Marciano later hit Moore with low blows a few times and was given a warning. Eventually he knocked Moore out. Moore did not complain, and complimented Marciano's lack of survival instinct to protect himself and instead just accelerating his aggression when hurt (in a recent video).



Daniel Dubois hit Usyk legally in the beltline. Usyk was given four minutes to recover before resuming the fight. Dubois lost a critical opportunity to end the fight. Usyk knock Dubois out later. People wonder if Usyk flopped like some N.B.A. stars feign being brutalized even if no contact was made while shooting.

In Usyk's fight against Verhoeven the match was even until a late round punch knocked Verhoeven down. He got up and the ten second to the end of the round bell sounded. Usyk hit Verhoeven with a flurry of punches and the fight was stopped then- with one second left. Verhoeven was denied the opportunity to recover in the ring and start another round. Following is a summary of those two actions and a paradigm by A.I. to find referees from non-N.A.T.O. member nations for Usyk's next championship contest.

Gemini- "The Core Rule (The Beltline): Hitting on the waistband is entirely legal under professional boxing rules. A punch is only an illegal "low blow" if it lands completely below the top of the hip bones.
Usyk vs. Dubois I (2023): Referee Luis Pabón (Puerto Rico) ruled Dubois's waistband shot a low blow. This controversial decision gave Usyk over four minutes of recovery time instead of a knockdown count, mirroring the extra time Rocky Marciano received against Archie Moore in 1955. <Marciano only got 4-6 seconds, while Usyk got four minutes>

Usyk vs. Verhoeven (2026): Referee Mark Lyson (UK) stopped the fight for a TKO victory for Usyk at 2 minutes and 59 seconds of the 11th round—with literally one second left. Verhoeven had beaten a prior knockdown count and was actively blocking shots in a high guard.
The Scorecard & Appeal Shock: Before the stoppage, Verhoeven was matching Usyk round-for-round, leading on one judge's card and tied on the other two (95-95). Verhoeven's team has formally appealed for an immediate rematch.
The Geopolitical Solution: To eliminate perceived Western bias in a highly requested Usyk vs. Verhoeven rematch, you proposed a complete overhaul using an all-BRICS official panel (featuring a South African referee alongside judges from Brazil, China, and India) to ensure absolute neutrality."



15 November 2025

Ukraine Tech Brawl is Comparable to W.W. 2 or Marciano vs Walcott I

The Ukraine war is something of a technical brawl comparable to the fight between Rocky Marciano (challenger) and Jersey Joe Walcott (champion) for the heavyweight title in 1952. Russia is known to be something of a military brawler; not so scientific in technique as some nations today, even so they are very skilled as was Marciano. Ukraine is strong and a quality fighter with corrupt leadership and lots of support from followers in elite western governments. Unfortunately, like Marciano v Walcott I the fight seems destined to go 13 rounds with the loss of perhaps the better part of a million lives.

Perhaps W.W. II was like the Ukraine war too; a technical brawl with many tactical approximations and tries for knockouts against relentless opponents unwilling to call themselves lemons and throw in the towel. Even if being beaten senselessly the handlers of Ukraine in Germany and elsewhere in Europe wouldn't allow their shill to retire from the conflict. Germany just decided to send another 11 billion dollars to Ukraine for military equipment next year. The fight costs Ukrainian and Russian lives rather than German.

Russian military groups advanced steadily, technically in 2025 so far, broadly across Eastern Ukraine and seems poised in 2026 to continue the slugfest advancing methodically, technically from major city to major city forming pincers and caldrons around districts sledging across a wilderness of city and landscapes comparable to a frozen ocean. The likely conclusions will be the Russian reconquista of Eastern Ukraine up to the Dnepro River. That border was the practical place to draw the border in 1990-1992-2022 negotiations and to have left it there and moved on. Europeans left to themselves would attack Eastward forever.





There are substantial differences between W.W. II and the Ukraine conflict about 80 years later obviously.  Logistics, weapons technology, communication and political configurations have changed a lot. Here is a video with more background on the German military posture compared to that of the American during World War Two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprFSZBTVj8



One might learn something from that regarding the  military posture of the United States today with so much manufacturing having shifted offshore and the industrial base half located in China and elsewhere. Solar rechargeable electric vehicles perhaps with auxiliary fuel cells may be a sustainable mass produced military vehicle for foreign militaries that reduce cost and reliance on fuel logistics down the road. Already the rise of drones and solar-power AI drones are changing the realities of equipment that might survive mass air and ground attack from drones. Fuel supply vehicles would be especially difficult to defend making self-fueling military vehicles de rigeur in the future.