What happened to the young fighters in boxing?

[#1Assassin]

some of the young up and coming fighters are always gonna come up short. if anything i think theres a stronger wave of young fighters coming through now than there has been in years. broner, canelo, benavidez, mares just to name a few.

[mathed]

They get caught up in that HBO and Showtime hype and they think they are invincible. It's the guys that earn it the hard way that are the goods, the ones that will last.

Just think about it: JMM, Pac (came from nothing), Bradley fought in obscurity for years, Guerrero, Martinez, Hopkins (straight out of the pen), Calzaghe (he was supposed to be fodder for Jeff Lacy......the guy with all the hype at the time).

Broner won't last, Khan didn't last, Kirkland, Angulo, Berto, Ortiz, JuanMa, all these dudes and many more have or had a ton of hype behind them and they all fell short. Once these networks treat them like stars, they develop star mentalities and they bite the dust.

[Martian]

Benavidez and Gomez are tipped as ones for the future.

Benavidez got momentarily rocked by a journeyman, so it will be interesting to see him vs the better fighters.

Gomez is still fighting amateur style, ATM creating more headlines as a sparring partner as opposed to a boxer.