Hats OFF to Anthony Crolla (literally)

What an exciting fight.

Everyone knew Barosso was a KO specialist. Could Anthony Crolla get past 3 or 4 rounds against this undefeated southpaw fighter?

Crolla kept his hands up, kept to the game plan, and the fight began to turn in the fourth round. Soon, to the glee of the British announcers, he began to take over, and Barosso began to tire. Barosso slowed, was soon easy to hit. Crolla, not a KO puncher, was landing clean and often. Barosso wilted, and in the 7th, a body shot knocked him down and he stayed down.

It was a powerful but stupid fighter getting dropped by a brilliant ring general.

And as soon as the fight was over...WHAT?

What IS this shit?

Monson? Moron? Monsoon?

I have no idea what the word means, but really, is there anything more demeaning and ridiculous than making a CHAMPION OF THE WORLD wear a silly hat with writing on it?

This is a BRITISH champion, and he's wearing a fucking baseball cap! They don't even PLAY baseball in England.

What was Crolla paid? Five hundred pounds? A thousand? Isn't there something called "integrity?"

Why is it that half the time a boxer wins a fight, some ASSHOLE comes running over to shove an advertisement baseball cap on his head? (Sometimes the fighter has to submit to holding his arms up and having a fucking t-shirt put on him!)

Obviously it has nothing to do with the promoter or the broadcaster, otherwise they'd just shout, "And the win was brought to you by..." or flash a logo. It's the fighter submitting to this and it seems awfully cheap to me.

They fly Michael Buffer all the way from America just to be the ring announcer, and they have to be cheap about making the champ wear a SILLY HAT?

(The other disappointment was that in the sixth round, as Crolla was taking over, the fucking phone rang, and Caller ID let me know that this was some fucking "spoof" phone number, another con artist asshole "spoofing" a name and a local area code to get me to pick up. Yeah, I picked up and slammed the receiver down as fast as possible. I didn't get a call back. But it was a momentary distraction from a very exciting fight).

Great victory for Crolla...and a big FUCK YOU to telemarketers and craven dickheads who have to cap off a win with a commercial.