Comments Thread For: Truth or dare: There?s no ?third time lucky? for Anthony Yarde

[BoxingUpdates]

Of all the recent additions to the professional boxing phrasebook, few are perhaps as jarring as the phrase ?Daring to be great?. It is jarring because implicit in this phrase is both an acceptance of defeat and the exoneration of a reckless boxer taking an impossible challenge for a lot of money. It is, in effect, a get-out clause, ?daring to be great?. It is designed more for the suits who have arranged the mismatch than the boxer who is, on fight night, being led to the slaughter ? or, well, daring to be great.
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"It is designed more for the suits who have arranged the mismatch than the boxer who is, on fight night, being led to the slaughter – or, well, daring to be great."

Designed for the suits and the bitter fans when someone they don't support wins. Like someone said in another comment section, in boxing we eat our own.

[Left Hook Louie]

Why is Yarde cosplaying like he's MBS or Turkey?

[DeeMoney]

I hate the way "daring to be great" is used today. For some reasons boxing fans don't like to see great fighters fighting at where they are their relative best, they like to see great fighters not be great, and instead move up in weight to a weight where they are overmatched.

They call it, "daring to be great", but really there is no dare to it, because if they lose its just written off as them being too small. You want to dare to be great, fight at a weight where you actually risk losing some luster if you lose, not one where the excuse is built in.

And yes I know thats not the way the term was used in the article, but its how it is used quite often.