Why do some fans demand fighters to do what past greats do?

[-Kev-]

For nearly 15 years posting here, this never gets old.

Critics of certain fighters have such clouded judgement of hatred that they don’t realize they are insulting past greats by pretending that any good top 10 boxer can do what the legends did.

Like…”so and so is not great because he could not do what [insert top 10 ATG] did.”

Okay, has it ever occurred to these sorts of fans, what the legendary ATG did in his career was part of what placed them so highly as one of the best?

“So and so fought the most HOF fighters in history. Top fighter from the present could not do that so he sucks, is a fraud.”

Boxing is a very tough and grueling sport to be successful in. A boxer being the best of his era does not mean he needs to replicate what past greats did. Or that he can do exactly what they did.

You are either subconsciously putting the fighter you are criticizing on a pedestal. Or you don’t think very highly of the past greats/HOFers and expect the current top fighters

It’s nearly impossible to copy an ATG career and be successful at it. Pay your respects to those who had ATG careers and move on. It is extremely hard to have an ATG career. Especially a carbon copy of one.

[buddyr]

why do fans demand that their favorite fighters do nothing but cherry pick opponents with no chance in hell of beating them, but get the title of "great" ?

[PeepeePoopooMan]

Well alot of people on this forum swear the fight game/sweet science has improved since back then. Honestly this is the worst Era of boxing. Fighters now and days are spoiled, cherry pick and corruption in boxing is worse than ever. The politics of boxing is the number 1 excuse for big fights not happening and the pathetic fangirlscheer it on.

[BodyBagz]

Great fighters set the barometer for those who come after.
And when present day great retires, he's part of that narrative for future wannabes.

[Toffee]

It's a good point. Joshua, in particular, is criticised on here for not regularly beating the best fighter in any particular year.

So he's only beaten Whyte, Povetkin, Parker, Martin, Klitschko, Ruiz... Is that not enough? if he'd also beaten Wilder (pre Fury) or Fury, he'd be in ATG territory! It's not good enough that he's exceptional?

[Noelanthony]

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[Clegg]

Was this triggered by the thread about Floyd not doing what Duran did?

I can't think of any thread on here demanding that a guy ranked 10th in their division do as much as an ATG

[-Kev-]

why do fans demand that their favorite fighters do nothing but cherry pick opponents with no chance in hell of beating them, but get the title of "great" ?

The “no, you!” style of posting does not help. I wish to see better replies than “I know you are but what am I”, but I guess I should know that is asking for too much from forum members in general.

[Lomadeaux]

He's confused. Back in the day ALL fighters did what the All-Time greats did. The All-Time greats just became the all time greats...

[-Kev-]

Was this triggered by the thread about Floyd not doing what Duran did?

I can't think of any thread on here demanding that a guy ranked 10th in their division do as much as an ATG

It is not for fighters “ranked 10th”. That is not what was stated in the topic. I am talking about top 10 boxers of an era.

It is literally all over the forum. Every day. You have been here long enough to know exactly
what I am talking about. It happens every day, multiple times a day.

Some fans think this sport is so easy and that anything that was done in the past by an ATG can and should be done again.