164 defeat in 5 years ?!?!

Discussion in 'Boxing' started by furn, May 18, 2008.

  1. furn

    furn Valued Member

    Just want to say that this man impress me :

    Donnie Penelton...is record in professional boxing is 13 win, 164 lost and 5 drawn...

    Direct link: http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=4788&cat=boxer

    Is number of loss fascinate me ! How can you persist to fight when you got more that an hundred of defeat behind you?

    I laugh when I saw him fight Jean Pascal in 2005, because his manager said that "Penelton is a man with enormous boxing experience, so we will be able to see what our boxer can do". I remember the audience going mad when they knew the statistic of Penelton, it was a funny part of the evening.

    Anyway, anybody to explain me the powerfull mindset that refuse to quit (Thank ross) of this man?
     
  2. pauli

    pauli mr guillotine

    he's a professional can. likely doesn't even know the name of any given opponent, just how much he's getting paid.
     
  3. Bronze Statue

    Bronze Statue Valued Member

    But what would possess someone to seek to be a professional can? Would he not learn anything from a record of 13-164-5?
     
  4. pauli

    pauli mr guillotine

    he'd learn he could make a living at it.
     
  5. tideliar

    tideliar Valued Member

    Think I'd rather flip burgers!! :D
     
  6. Yohan

    Yohan In the Spirit of Yohan Supporter

    Amazing. How you would not fight to win is beyond me.
     
  7. furn

    furn Valued Member

    Anyway, even if this man do this for money, he's so bad that is wage for each fight must decrease.

    Also, he starts in 2000, and he didn't fight since 2005...I think is career is done, it's pretty short, so it's not enough to make enough money to live.

    And Yohan, I don't understand too ;)
     
  8. flammee

    flammee Valued Member

    Ummm, you missed pages 2 and 3. He started his fighting career at age of 26, in year 1990..


    I just realized that I have great respect for such persistence. I have always thought that those who end their fighting career before they start loosing are kind of cowards.. Well maybe "coward" is bit too strong word, but atleast I think that it shows more fighting spirit to keep going despite all losses..

    Although in boxing, it's probably more wise to not keep getting knocked out too much..
     
  9. Switch2

    Switch2 Banned Banned

    I predict a Balboa-type comeback
    Yo Adriannnnnnnn
     
  10. cowzerp

    cowzerp Valued Member

    This bum should not be allowed to get licensed, its ridiculus..
     
  11. furn

    furn Valued Member

    oops my mistake :ban: !


    You're right, i'm sure that around a thirty KO don't help to have a healthy brain:p
     
  12. path_one

    path_one steps taken

    I have to point out that his wins are over new comers, fighters who have 0-0-0 on there record entering the fight (If I were a manager/coach and worried about the abilities of my fighter I'd put him against a guy with 150+ losses for their first fight too!)

    the thing is if you look further at his wins you can see he's beaten this guy twice (a fighter with a worse record than his own!!!)

    http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=4741&cat=boxer
     
  13. Yohan

    Yohan In the Spirit of Yohan Supporter

    No way man. If this guy was "persevering," he'd actually train hard between fights.
     
  14. flammee

    flammee Valued Member

    Well, isn't age of 26 bit late to start fighting in ring? And when he took his last fight he was 41 years old, that's definitely old for boxing. So, for a guy who starts boxing as 23+ years old and isn't talented, it's all possible that he trained hard.

    There are stories of guys who start relatively late and with hard training get themselves to the top of sport. That doesn't mean that anyone can do it with same amount of hard training. There are lots of people who train hard.. Training hard can be better than training a little and being very talented, but being talented AND training hard, that's something else.. For example, I just suck at acrobatics. I have trained walking on hands for 2 years and still keep falling over after a few steps. :p Now, I know talented people who have learned that skill in less than an hour. There's no way that I could compete with them in acrobatic stuff, after two years they would be so far ahead of me that it would probably take lifetime of training to get into their level.. But I still keep training it, I like it. Maybe that boxer liked boxing too.. :)
     
  15. duffman

    duffman New Member

    Its gas to see these guys records. Some of them reads like a whos who of world boxing! Well not quite but you can definitly find 10-30 world beaters in the records of Strickland, Buckley etc.

    Out of interest what do these guys make per night. I imagine after 50 losses thier purse doesnt go down but rather they have flat rate for fighting?
     

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