Comments Thread For: Place To Avoid: The No Man’s Land of Boxing

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It is a place where no fighter ever wants to find himself. A place of doubt and desperation where speculation swirls about his place within the sport. The unrest is unrelenting, and it comes from multiple sources: The people around him, his family and friends as well as fans and media. More often than not the worst of it comes from within because one can never get away from it.

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[Madvillain]

What can I say? A very good read.

[BennyST]

Great article. It is boxing's constant place for prospects, champions and ex-champions. You win some, you lose some, and even though today's boxing world thrives much more on the 0 in the loss column a great champion will always be considered just that by how he comes from adversity or defeat.

As mentioned, Duran was one of the most famous to pack on ridiculous amounts of weight in between fights and lived the opposite of what he should have done, and yet, he also showed what the absolute greatest need to have to be considered as such, when he went from the lowest of times and shocking losses from overindulgence, laziness and lack of motivation to slowly building back his career into what would become the stuff of legend by winning two more world titles in fights and at weights he was meant to be blasted out in.

The only problem is that Duran had previously shown throughout a long career he had the fire and passion necessary as well as the skills to back it all up when he could get motivated or when he was thought to be done or when no one had any hope for him. I'm not sure Arreola has either to be honest. Without ever even getting out of the 'prospect' stage of his career he had already shown up in most of his big fights disgustingly fat, and his lack of real skill also proved his undoing as he could not fall back on anything or move to a plan B. The Adamek fight showed this very well as it was Adamek who had that extra stuff, who could fall back on some better boxing skill and find a different plan as Arreola gassed and stopped being able to hurt him. His lack of skill showed up in his winging, wide punches and off balance lunges as well as his awful defense and terrible basics.

[Shadow boxer 3]

good read .....................