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I read countless threads, over the last few years i have been on here i have read thread after thread. I have seen so many fans come through here, as long as their fighter is active, theyll be here, and when that fighters hype dies down, they are gone. Different waves of fans come and go on here. Defending their fighter to the nth degree.
In particular though, with floyd mayweather, the only time i can think of when he was actually liked on here was after he beat the hell out of arturo gatti and before that, he was mostly thought of as a good fighter who was underrated. I didint imagine hed be the biggest fighter in the sport, or at least the most polarizing.
But there is something that has come to my attention, its something wmute and dirt e gomez mentioned more than a year ago. Who the hell is there to replace mayweather? Im being serious. Mayweather is one of the last fighters in boxing who represents the sport in its truest form. From defense to offense, mayweather has the total package. Guys like toney, hopkins, calderon etc are leaving the sport. It seems now more than ever, with our amatuer program in disarray, the dearth in pure boxers is becoming evident. Sure there is pacman, a once in a lifetime fighter, but more and more i am seeing guys who more or less fight like pac over the years, there will be another like him, maybe he wont be filipino, but theyll be another.
But more and more im looking around and im seeing very few fighters with the total package, lineares, donaire, juanma and a few others are all i can really think of that REALLY have it all.
Growing up there were guys like Whitaker, Tyson, Jones Jr, Ray Leonard, Vernon Forrest etc who had it all. It seems there are fewer and fewer as time goes on, and even as they come on, they dont get the support. Boxing, now more than ever, is about knockouts as opposed to the specticle of the sport, so more and more youths are likely throwing defense and fundamentals out the window.
Just last night i had to argue with another poster about how important the amatuer program is and that turning pro young and being successfull is VERY rare. If this is the mentality that people are taking with amatuers and how it prepares you for the pros, we are going to see less and less complete fighters in our sport. Granted that poster is obviously a newcomer to the sport and had little knowledge beyond pacman, its still something im seeing and dealing with more and more.
For alot of you, you could care less, you want knockouts, you want to spend more time on resumes and belts and weight classes etc, thats fine. But without mayweather the p4p list got thin as ****, even ring magazine admitted this, complete fighters are becoming less and less and less, this is why for me, mayweather is so important, i dont care if he stays undefeated or not, i just want him in the sport as long as he can sustain it, because the sport needs his influence and his technical brilliance, because when its gone, its gone.
In particular though, with floyd mayweather, the only time i can think of when he was actually liked on here was after he beat the hell out of arturo gatti and before that, he was mostly thought of as a good fighter who was underrated. I didint imagine hed be the biggest fighter in the sport, or at least the most polarizing.
But there is something that has come to my attention, its something wmute and dirt e gomez mentioned more than a year ago. Who the hell is there to replace mayweather? Im being serious. Mayweather is one of the last fighters in boxing who represents the sport in its truest form. From defense to offense, mayweather has the total package. Guys like toney, hopkins, calderon etc are leaving the sport. It seems now more than ever, with our amatuer program in disarray, the dearth in pure boxers is becoming evident. Sure there is pacman, a once in a lifetime fighter, but more and more i am seeing guys who more or less fight like pac over the years, there will be another like him, maybe he wont be filipino, but theyll be another.
But more and more im looking around and im seeing very few fighters with the total package, lineares, donaire, juanma and a few others are all i can really think of that REALLY have it all.
Growing up there were guys like Whitaker, Tyson, Jones Jr, Ray Leonard, Vernon Forrest etc who had it all. It seems there are fewer and fewer as time goes on, and even as they come on, they dont get the support. Boxing, now more than ever, is about knockouts as opposed to the specticle of the sport, so more and more youths are likely throwing defense and fundamentals out the window.
Just last night i had to argue with another poster about how important the amatuer program is and that turning pro young and being successfull is VERY rare. If this is the mentality that people are taking with amatuers and how it prepares you for the pros, we are going to see less and less complete fighters in our sport. Granted that poster is obviously a newcomer to the sport and had little knowledge beyond pacman, its still something im seeing and dealing with more and more.
For alot of you, you could care less, you want knockouts, you want to spend more time on resumes and belts and weight classes etc, thats fine. But without mayweather the p4p list got thin as ****, even ring magazine admitted this, complete fighters are becoming less and less and less, this is why for me, mayweather is so important, i dont care if he stays undefeated or not, i just want him in the sport as long as he can sustain it, because the sport needs his influence and his technical brilliance, because when its gone, its gone.
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