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By Cliff Rold - They are all lies of course.
Anyone who says boxing isn’t good anymore, that it’s dead, that the best never fight each other…lies and damn lies all.
Sure, the sport isn’t quite what it used to be. Fighters don’t fight enough. There are still bad decisions, hometown calls, and the air of politics. Guess what? The same is true in every professional sport. The difference in boxing is that the negatives are so naked, so visceral, because at the end of the day it’s just two men, at center ring, shedding blood and sweat for the honor of victory.
Don’t let the negatives be too distracting.
The first decade of the twenty-first century had just as much its share of fantastic as any time before it.
Boxing in the early 2000s saw an explosion of interest in Europe, record wealth in lower weight divisions, and megastars emerging in almost every part of the sports sometimes regionalized landscape. [Click Here To Read More]
Anyone who says boxing isn’t good anymore, that it’s dead, that the best never fight each other…lies and damn lies all.
Sure, the sport isn’t quite what it used to be. Fighters don’t fight enough. There are still bad decisions, hometown calls, and the air of politics. Guess what? The same is true in every professional sport. The difference in boxing is that the negatives are so naked, so visceral, because at the end of the day it’s just two men, at center ring, shedding blood and sweat for the honor of victory.
Don’t let the negatives be too distracting.
The first decade of the twenty-first century had just as much its share of fantastic as any time before it.
Boxing in the early 2000s saw an explosion of interest in Europe, record wealth in lower weight divisions, and megastars emerging in almost every part of the sports sometimes regionalized landscape. [Click Here To Read More]
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