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What are the ingredients necessary to produce an ATG fighter. I am curious about what you guys have to say about this. There will be the obvious stuff, but maybe you will add some stuff that others haven't considered. Some stuff might be controversial. So, let's hear it.
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Will, skill and a functioning body. -
Strong chin
Great conditioning
Significant keystone wins
Connected with his fans
Encountered great adversity and succeeded
Showed consistency to win against young/old & experiences//unexperienced
Made their style work for them
Those aren't in any particular order...
But what I think most important and overlooked...
Dedication and love for the sport.Comment
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first name: floyd
last name: mayweatherComment
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'faith in God' - squealpiggyComment
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Heart + Skills
or in some cases, careful cherry picking/ducking, fighting once a year against blown up Lightweigths and Superfeather weights. Throw in some mentally weak fighters they have to sucker punch...... but wait were getting ahead of ourselves they need to get past a beast like Berto first.
do all of that and you're an ATGComment
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Antonio Margarito is the epitome of an atg fighter!Comment
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If you haven't used plaster, then you haven't tried to win.Comment
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It is all totally subjective. The word 'great' can mean several things, depending on the interpretation of the person making the decisions, or the people reading the results of other peoples decisions. A better question would have been, what is your interpretation of the word 'great', when used in reference to a fighter?
Some people see greatness as only belonging to the top 5-6 fighters of all-time. Others can go through each era and pick out 10 great fighters from each. The phrase is totally subjective.
In my opinion the word 'great' can only be used when referring to a guy who is so good, he can destroy people without taking any damage, he can dominate his weight division, he has beautiful boxing skills, a good boxing IQ, and the respect/fear of his peers. A great fighter also has to show consistency.
Greatness is not something were you look at a fighters whole career in retrospect and say, 'Oh, that was a great fighter...'. In my opinion, greatness is a fleeting thing, which comes on in flashes, and is gone just as quickly as it got here. Think Jack Johnson in his absolute prime. When he really put to it, he was great, for a time. But before he became regarded as the legit world champ, there was talk of thrown fights, crooked fights, taking exhibitions against a really poor level of opponent. None of that was great.
His greatness was in the way he could toy with opponents, he had the white led boxing establishment running scared, trying to protect their fighters like a shepherd with a stick, trying to protect his herd from a hungry lion. And when he finally forced the issue, he fulfilled his destiny and became the world heavyweight champion, that is when greatness reared its head. It didn't last long however, and it is hard to establish when it left. I'd say it ran through a seven or eight fight period in his absolute prime.Comment
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Heart and Determination.Comment
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