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Probably has more to do with stylistic bias. The media and fans will be bias to more exciting styles and ignore the flaws.
If you are a very good fighter known for power punches and you beat mediocre opposition the way a very good fighter should, and you do this every time and that average opposition is all you fight, the media and fans will catch on and praise you and think you will always be good against any opposition in fantasy fights. This leads to high rankings, claims of other smaller fighters coming up in weight ducking you and being businessmen is bad, guys you are avoiding is not called ducking it's business it's okay in this case because it's him, the god. Guys who are calling you out are irrelevant and bring no money, guys who you fight in your weight class who are irrelevant it's cause 'he had to', protection from fans, protection from media so that the circus can go on and they keep getting their KO fix.
Meanwhile for other fighters, you always read these articles being written about how they have to step up, it's time to step up, how they never fought anyone, how everyone they fought was past prime, old, etc.
If you are a very good fighter known for power punches and you beat mediocre opposition the way a very good fighter should, and you do this every time and that average opposition is all you fight, the media and fans will catch on and praise you and think you will always be good against any opposition in fantasy fights. This leads to high rankings, claims of other smaller fighters coming up in weight ducking you and being businessmen is bad, guys you are avoiding is not called ducking it's business it's okay in this case because it's him, the god. Guys who are calling you out are irrelevant and bring no money, guys who you fight in your weight class who are irrelevant it's cause 'he had to', protection from fans, protection from media so that the circus can go on and they keep getting their KO fix.
Meanwhile for other fighters, you always read these articles being written about how they have to step up, it's time to step up, how they never fought anyone, how everyone they fought was past prime, old, etc.
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