Is to much stock put into having an 0 on your record?

[MELLY-MEL...]

thoughts? discuss.

[Ras44]

Depends.

If you are a rookie, the 0 in your record is very important, because if you are really good, you should breeze by the club and ballroom fighters.

If you are a champion who craves greatness, then it doesn't matters that much because if you decide to fight the best, you should expect to lose a couple of fights.

Like Benítez, Hearns or DLH.

[MANGLER]

It all depends on who you've fought. It always looks better to never have lost, but if you've beaten a bunch of chumps the 0 don't mean much.

[Live Dog]

fix your title and maybe I'll respond

[Nicky_Hatton]

The Zero only matters if you fight the best.

Like Calzaghe until recently His 0 meant **** all. But now he's proven his class, his Zero means much more.

[badnewsbrown]

a lot of the times it is. esp here in britain. some of the best fighters are those who have been in their with though competition and lost but came back.

[Silencers]

I think so. People are too eager to write some fighters off after their first loss.

[Boogie Nights]

absoloutely. i mean look at tunney, denis boytsov is undefeated having fought complete bums, and tunney is ready to suck his ****

[THe TRiNiTY]

From the fans perspective, it is. Fans make it seem like that's all that matters. It impresses them, when it tells you nothing about who that perons faced, if they deserve the fights they've fought, how well they fought them or who they've ducked.

From the fighters perspective, it's depending on how you look at it. A fighter can see that he's undefeated and use it to his advantage. Makes more fights happen that way and it also can build his confidence, in a healthy manner.

At the same time, building ALL of your confidence on that '0' is a bad thing. Because once it's gone, so may be your confidence. So it's a tricky thing to balance, but if done correctly FOR A FIGHTER, it can have it's advantages.

[mrpain81]

Yes but also people want to see something special, that's why it was such a big deal about maybe the patriots going undefeated last season. People want to see greatness, when you have a fighter who has never been lost or two top guys where Buffer says "One 0 must go" people really eat that up.

Also some people will automatically assume just because a fighter has a few losses he isn't elite or any good. Henry Armstrong who many consider a top 5 P4P alltime lost 3 of his first 4 bouts, Alexis Arguello was Ko'd in his first pro fight. Networks seemed to have programed people that only a flashy undefeated record makes a great fighter.