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by David P. Greisman - The longer a boxer fights on, the longer the odds against him can become.
Time is not an ally. Age slows the body. Experience corrodes it further. A boxer who no longer can perform as he once could will be more likely to lose. If a fighter loses with increasingly regularity — and if those defeats come against less than impressive opposition — then the losses he’s suffered can outweigh his wins.
Steve “USS” Cunningham is 39. He is 4-3-1 as a heavyweight. He is small in a division ruled by far bigger men. He is getting older, further endangering the speed and reflexes he’d need to beat those bigger men. Every defeat for a fighter in Cunningham’s position can be devastating. It can mean he’ll be passed by while others get opportunities first. It can mean he’ll be paid less while working to get back to where he was before.
It’s why he was outspoken and heartbroken after a split decision loss in his rematch with Tomasz Adamek in late 2012, feeling as if he’d been robbed on the scorecards and therefore robbed of the spoils of victory. [Click Here To Read More]
Time is not an ally. Age slows the body. Experience corrodes it further. A boxer who no longer can perform as he once could will be more likely to lose. If a fighter loses with increasingly regularity — and if those defeats come against less than impressive opposition — then the losses he’s suffered can outweigh his wins.
Steve “USS” Cunningham is 39. He is 4-3-1 as a heavyweight. He is small in a division ruled by far bigger men. He is getting older, further endangering the speed and reflexes he’d need to beat those bigger men. Every defeat for a fighter in Cunningham’s position can be devastating. It can mean he’ll be passed by while others get opportunities first. It can mean he’ll be paid less while working to get back to where he was before.
It’s why he was outspoken and heartbroken after a split decision loss in his rematch with Tomasz Adamek in late 2012, feeling as if he’d been robbed on the scorecards and therefore robbed of the spoils of victory. [Click Here To Read More]
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