Boxers in the Philippines fight blindfolded, show us why they shouldn’t
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[url]http://cnnphilippines.com/lifestyle/2015/05/04/blindfold-boxing-footage-viral-video.html[/url]
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[QUOTE]CNN Philippines) — If you're still down in the dumps about the outcome of the recently concluded 'Fight of the Century,' here's something to cheer you up: A 'blindfold boxing' match held in Brgy. Tres De Mayo in Digos City, Davao del Sur on Sunday (May 3).
The town's name, which means "third of May" in English, held its fiesta or town feast on Sunday, the same day the two biggest superstars of boxing — Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. — locked horns in an epic showdown tagged as the biggest and richest fight in boxing history.
Part of Brgy. Tres De Mayo's celebration was a parody match between two blindfolded boxers and the result fell nothing short of hilarious.
Facebook user Cee Jay posted the footage of the said match on social media and almost instantly, the video went viral.
With every punch the boxers threw — and missed — audiences roared with laughter.
And the rare times that one actually got near enough to hit the other, onlookers cheered as if they were watching the fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
Cee Jay posted the video with an accompanying statement, part of which read: "Only in the Philippines. Iba talaga ang Pinoy pagdating sa Sports."
[Translation: Only in the Philippines. Nothing comes close to the Filipino when it comes to sports."]
Cee Jay also posted a video of another mock boxing match held in their town on the same day. It featured two supposed gay men fighting in the ring — but no, they weren't blindfolded.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;d_8ywpSrgns]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_8ywpSrgns[/video]
They haven't learned anything from watching Daredevil on netflixs apparently.
Literally better match than the one between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
and they say boxing is dead
They should wear a couple little bells
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;47691914]They should wear a couple little bells[/QUOTE]
At the rink I go to they have blind hockey with a really loud puck.
edit: video of people who are actually good at it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfiUTd6FFvM[/media]
This video makes me think we should have more blindfolded sports.
Blindfolded NASCAR.
[B]BA[/B]hahaha!
ahahaha, they seemed to be able to find the referee just fine
Karl Pilkington did this once
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemAXfEGtOw&hd=1[/media]
[QUOTE=DemonDog;47695043]This video makes me think we should have more blindfolded sports.
Blindfolded NASCAR.[/QUOTE]
Blindfolded F1 Racing?
I like the audio cue the audience provides, screaming when they're near and might hit each other.
If you hit the gloves together maybe you can lure your opponent into thinking they know where you are. But they'd probably realize that that's what you're doing :v:
[QUOTE=Maegord;47698590]I like the audio cue the audience provides, screaming when they're near and might hit each other.[/QUOTE]
They also started screaming when he almost hit the ref.
All I can hear while watching this is the punchout theme
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;47696469][B]BA[/B]hahaha![/QUOTE]
The timing of that annoying laughter is so precise that somewhere around the middle of the video I've started to think that it's just the sound one of the fighters makes when swinging his fists around.
[QUOTE=Gar92;47689672]They haven't learned anything from watching Daredevil on netflixs apparently.[/QUOTE]
Sure they have, that whole fight was done in one take.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47689713]Literally better match than the one between Pacquiao and Mayweather.[/QUOTE]
At least they were both trying instead of one getting all hugsy
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