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Ring Entrances
Boxing's ring entrances have gotten to be more and more extravagant over the years. In the early 1900's they simply walked into the ring with their corner men and a few security guys to get through the crowd. In the 40's and 50's they started where colorful robes and trunks, but still didn't do any showboating or any of that sort of matter. In the late 70's Larry Holmes played a ring entrance song, and was the first to do so. He played the disco song "Aint No Stoppin' Us Now" and played that same song for every sing fight from then on. After that,m more and more fighters did this. Still no showboating was being done. In the late 80's is when the showboating and extravagant ring entrances started. They stared dancing, raising their arms and yelling insults and such. Now, you have things like Mayweather coming in on a carrage, or Naseem Hamed doing his thing. It's rediculous.
Any comments on the matter?
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