boxing officials really need to force retirement when a fighter is too old/damaged

The sad thing is: A lot of these old boxers are guys who have no money. They don't know anything else. They don't know how to make money anywhere else. All they have left is boxing. You don't them from boxing, then what? Are you going to donate a lot of money to house and feed them? It's a sad fact, but most of these guys have no experience will really handling their money, investing, or planning things out financially. A lot of boxers don't have a good education.

It should be based on a boxer's ability to defend themselves and not on a certain age. There are lots of young prime boxers who lose almost every fight and have been KOed a dozen or more times and nobody makes them retire. There are lots of young boxers that Jones and Mosley would easily beat and nobody makes them retire. Then you have Hopkins who wins world titles in his late 40s. Jones, Mosley and Hopkins all seem mentally sharp but maybe they won't stay that way. As long as Mosley and Jones get offers for high paying fights they may not retire. Toney is the guy that can hardly even talk and sounds punchy as hell but as far as I know he is still fighting.

They do, but the problem with boxing is that it's such a fragmented sport without an overall authority that someone will always give you a license. So take a guy like Roy Jones Jr. Who i think needs to hang them up. Even if all the states in USA wouldn't allow him to fight, some countries would happily let Jones go and fight there. Remember when Haye and Chisora were banned by the British Boxing Board Of Control so they just went and got a license from the Luxembourg Boxing Federation and still held the fight in the UK as normal. Wasn't Edwin Valero only granted a License to fight in Texas but not some other places because of a previous head injury?Thats a big problem, boxing is just too split up. i really wish there was a way they could make it illegal for a fighter to come back. They think its worth it, but it usually isn't

They do, but the problem with boxing is that it's such a fragmented sport without an overall authority that someone will always give you a license. So take a guy like Roy Jones Jr. Who i think needs to hang them up. Even if all the states in USA wouldn't allow him to fight, some countries would happily let Jones go and fight there. Remember when Haye and Chisora were banned by the British Boxing Board Of Control so they just went and got a license from the Luxembourg Boxing Federation and still held the fight in the UK as normal. Wasn't Edwin Valero only granted a License to fight in Texas but not some other places because of a previous head injury?

Agreed. ...........................................................