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If Floyd is a real Junior Middlweight champion, why won't he fight Lara?
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Originally posted by - Righteous - View PostThat's sad as hell. The GOATs would be rolling in their graves if they knew champions in our age would not challenge themselves and fight the best without any excuses or doubt.
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Originally posted by - Righteous - View PostThat's sad as hell. The GOATs would be rolling in their graves if they knew champions in our age would not challenge themselves and fight the best without any excuses or doubt.
i always get a kick out of this; people talking about the "good old days" that they haven't actually read about.
boxing has always been about money. do you know who jack dempsey is, and that he fought approximately 100 years ago? how about sugar ray robinson? he was the fighter of the decade in the 40's and the 50's. best WW of all time, top 3 MW of all time. fought for money, and was matched for money.
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Originally posted by - Righteous - View PostAll I hear is excuses for floyd
I don't get it. The people get to choose the fight.
the people? you mean you and a few [less than 1000] other dudes on boxingscene?
the people who drive mayweather's ppv sales are not on this website. they're a casual american sporting audience. it's mexicans, and middle and working class american casual fans. these are the people that need TV advertisements to know about fights.
there are 200K posters on bscene. probably 25-50% of them buy ppv, if that.
showtime lost money when they matched floyd with guerrero. they will lose money when they match him with lara. do you understand that?
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Originally posted by - Righteous - View PostThat's sad as hell. The GOATs would be rolling in their graves if they knew champions in our age would not challenge themselves and fight the best without any excuses or doubt.
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Originally posted by The Big Dunn View PostIf you actually reviewed the resumes of the GOATS as you call them, you'd realize that 85-90% of their opponents you wouldn't even know and when you found out about them you'd hardly consider them worthy challengers.
Because the fighters I consider the greatest are the ones that have proven the most.
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Originally posted by The Big Dunn View PostIf you actually reviewed the resumes of the GOATS as you call them, you'd realize that 85-90% of their opponents you wouldn't even know and when you found out about them you'd hardly consider them worthy challengers.
and he'd know that many of the greats died either poor, or badly damaged, or both.
muhammad ali fought everybody. everybody. he has maybe the best resume of all time. look at him now. he's still got money, but he can't even talk or walk on his own.
boxers fight for money. networks pay for fights or put on ppv for money.
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