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By Cliff Rold - Talented fighters don’t, sometimes can’t, always go for it when it’s their chance. It’s not always hard to understand why. Every talent doesn’t sell. Every champion doesn’t draw. Given the tight economics, and the politics, most fighters who get their hands on a belt hold on tight until they lose it because it’s their one assurance of better than average. It’s a guaranteed check for as long as the belt is yours.
It would be nice to have a sport where every fighter is tested to the fullest extent of their ability, able to walk away with every question answered about who they were and what they could have been.
Boxing doesn’t always go like that.
It is particularly true in the lower weight classes.
Unification bouts below Jr. Featherweight have been rare since the initial splits between the WBA and WBC. Some of the most celebrated little men, names like Miguel Canto, Jeff Chandler, Khaosai Galaxy, and Mark Johnson, never had a chance to unify titles in their time. It didn’t detract much from their places in history, but it pointed to some of the limits of the game. [Click Here To Read More]
It would be nice to have a sport where every fighter is tested to the fullest extent of their ability, able to walk away with every question answered about who they were and what they could have been.
Boxing doesn’t always go like that.
It is particularly true in the lower weight classes.
Unification bouts below Jr. Featherweight have been rare since the initial splits between the WBA and WBC. Some of the most celebrated little men, names like Miguel Canto, Jeff Chandler, Khaosai Galaxy, and Mark Johnson, never had a chance to unify titles in their time. It didn’t detract much from their places in history, but it pointed to some of the limits of the game. [Click Here To Read More]
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