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By Patrick Kehoe - “I just want to be the best out of my era.” Winky on the record, sounds like he’s talking to himself, somehow, his voice suggesting an echo.
Ronald “Winky” Wright wants boxing fans to at least know he’s always confident of winning his fights and that he expects to win all of his fights no matter the opposition, no matter the contracted weight, no matter the country he’s fighting in. The Floridian has already contested 55 fights notching a 51-3-1 (25) professional slate to date. Fighting light-heavyweight main man Bernard Hopkins – at the catch weight of 170 – almost seems designed to prove he can do more than talk about winning or merely do an imitation of being the best of his time. Though Floyd Mayweather Jr. might have reason to argue the merits of Wright asserting he’s near to being the king of the ring in his time, Wright just keeps doing his job, building upon his record by facing down champions and legends alike.
You get the idea that Winky isn’t hiding from any fighter. With title belts d****d about his torso, defending none of them, he’s boxing’s eternal challenger of champions, as if questing for an unreachable summit were his life’s work. Victory as certainly as a rare defeat, never changes his course of action, his simple determination to win for the sake of victory’s recompense.
And that dutiful willingness alone makes him unique, for self preservation as defined by prudent match making has tended to define many of the greatest fighters of all time. If you are within his weight horizon, and call yourself a champion or something special, Wright will be coming after you, eventually. [details]
Ronald “Winky” Wright wants boxing fans to at least know he’s always confident of winning his fights and that he expects to win all of his fights no matter the opposition, no matter the contracted weight, no matter the country he’s fighting in. The Floridian has already contested 55 fights notching a 51-3-1 (25) professional slate to date. Fighting light-heavyweight main man Bernard Hopkins – at the catch weight of 170 – almost seems designed to prove he can do more than talk about winning or merely do an imitation of being the best of his time. Though Floyd Mayweather Jr. might have reason to argue the merits of Wright asserting he’s near to being the king of the ring in his time, Wright just keeps doing his job, building upon his record by facing down champions and legends alike.
You get the idea that Winky isn’t hiding from any fighter. With title belts d****d about his torso, defending none of them, he’s boxing’s eternal challenger of champions, as if questing for an unreachable summit were his life’s work. Victory as certainly as a rare defeat, never changes his course of action, his simple determination to win for the sake of victory’s recompense.
And that dutiful willingness alone makes him unique, for self preservation as defined by prudent match making has tended to define many of the greatest fighters of all time. If you are within his weight horizon, and call yourself a champion or something special, Wright will be coming after you, eventually. [details]
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