Have fighters gone soft?

yeah like tyson was an outraged animal

Yes, see Chad Dawson

It's so much easier to be soft and get away with it these days. You don't have to work as hard to be a successful boxer anymore, and with so many belts to win you can win an easy one and call yourself champ, without ever stepping in the ring with better fighters to prove it. And you don't have to fight those wars against those tough fighters. To be fair though, pro boxers are tougher than 99% of the rest of us, so it's all relative.

Boxers delaying fights as part of a business strategy isn't anything new, it happened in Sugar Ray Leonard's day and it happened in Ali's day. Tyson - Holyfield didn't happen in the early nineties because the money wasn't right. Of course the difference is, those fighters were the absolute biggest thing in boxing at the time. I don't necessarily have a problem so long as the big fights happen whilst they are relevant. What I do have a problem with is boxers like Amir Khan, Andre Berto and many more holding out for paydays when they've done very little to earn them. Have these fighters and the others like them done anything extraordinary to stand them apart from the many other champions in the sport? I don't think so. They may well be capable of becoming the best, but neither has had any kind of longevity in order consistently face elite competition to prove they are the best. Allowing young fighters to believe they are 'owed' something extra only sets them up for a fall later. Amir Khan had a warning against Prescott, it seemed to straighten him out for a while, though lately he doesn't seem to have remembered that lesson.

Money makes boxers go soft i would say. Too much to do with the money nowadays. Nice cars, tecnology, places to go and see, and too much to occupy the mind. The internet probably distracts boxers and they want to read on forums what is being said about them. Too many distractions.

I dont think so!!!

nowadays? marketability>>>>legacy

Money is truly dough, makes boxers soft. I wish it was like the hood where it made em hard and want to kill for it. Then we'd see some real wars in that ring! well said my dude....well fukkin said!!! :fing02:

Im by no means a fan of MMA, too much rolling around on the floor for my liking, but when you see the brutalness of some of the fights they have, it makes you think, what is going on when you see fighters like Ortiz jacking it in? i mean, he was hardly getting a beat down, also, look at Judah against Clottey, Mofo quit like a dog cause he did not think he had the balls to stay with Clottey, where is his pride to go out on his shield?

Everything evolve with time, Nothing new here, Dont expect everything to be the same..

if you could make a list.......