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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’d love to just give her the 10 bucks back......

I just can't watch that fight, it makes me sick.

It makes a joke of the Lewis/McCall fight.

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Absolutely - and I can't think of any other obvious examples like that. In general, if a fighter wants to fight too long, everyone else goes along with it.

Holyfield and Toney are both showing signs of incipient brain damage, but are still allowed to fight on, and there are many other examples. You're right that Ali only gets the publicity for it because he's so famous, and because he was so joyously alive and vibrant when he was young and the deterioration is such a huge contrast - but it is the exception rather than the rule for a boxer who wants to fight on too long to be prevented from doing so.

Good post, highlighting a blight on our sport.

I've loved boxing ever since I was a little kid, but I dont ever wanna see someone get hurt like that. I just cant watch the Ali/Holmes fight.

We have a guy in my country, he's not great, just a very gutsy, solid, workman-like fighter. His family repeatedly petitioned the commission to revoke his license, as they knew only too well that he was already suffering the effects of too long in the ring.

There has to be some sort of a test like in Rugby.

When you turn pro, you take a psycho-analysis test. It forms the baseline for future evaluation. You cant determine by age, at least, thats what Bernard Hopkins told me anyways

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these Sanctioning commissions... they even let a 63-65 year old Balboa take on Antonio Tarver back in 2005? I thought it was a movie.

HAHAH fkn kiwi's

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I blame nobody but Ali, it was all Karma and same thing will happen to Floyd.

I dont really get what you mean there?

Havent you got something else to do?

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I blame nobody but Ali, it was all Karma and same thing will happen to Floyd.

Karma?

Wtf are you talking about?