There's very little "pride" left in boxing

[-MEGA-]

yup


the fact is that the fights actually happened

Exactly.............

[New England]

Once you posted those pics of you and your cousins it was all over

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we get ours.

[Pigeons]

Matthew Saad Muhammad had pride and balls. He died in his early 50s, homeless, brain damaged, inflicted with ALS. Not a penny to his name. He died alone.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[The Big Dunn]

I get what you are saying also. I would like all fighters to be paid very hansomely. But I also hate to see fight's not happen because they payday is nearly the same to fight a lesser opponent. Thats where the "pride" comes in IMO

I get your point. In the old days boxing was on more and therefore you had to make better fights to get viewers. Nowadays, fans lock on to "their guys" and watch regardless of who the opponent is.

How you build a fighter has changed significantly since about 2001.

[KingTito]

There are certainly times I get frustrated, but all in all, I don't have many complaints. We still get great fights.

[KingTito]

Also, as far as Broner, I'll wait until I see him in the ring with the guys he's calling out.

[BuckToothed]

I'm a Khan fan but that is incredibly contradictory.

I'm not even a fan of Khan, but he made up for the loss to Prescott imo.
He hasn't avenged his loss to Garcia, even though he wants to, but beating Alexander will some what make up for it.

[Evol]

Its all business now which is good that the fighters are finally getting paid good money.

But what happened to the "pride" fights?


Damn I miss those days...

well, everything is going up in prices, houses, food, gas, etc. aint nobody is gonna fight for pride anymore, mofo's gotta eat LOL.

[icha]

not every fight has to be for pride, i will be ok if a champion or a draw can give us 2 money fights and 1 pride fight a year or something like that, lets not get carried and believe they have to take a dangerous fight after another with little reward...

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Hagler-Hearns
Duran-Leonard
Tyson-holyfield
ODLH-Vargas
Trinidad-Vargas


the list goes on and on and on and on and then stopped a couple years ago.


well lara-canelo was a pride fight IMO though...

All of those were huge money fights. Pride? Lol....Tyson-Holyfield for example -Don King and Tyson paid a substantial amount of money not to fight Lennox Lewis and cherry picked what they thought was an old washed up Holyfield. Pride didn't really come into it.

Even Canelo-Lara wasn't really a "pride" fight.