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Ali's passing along with other fighters getting punch drunk, parakinesis, or any other damage done has got me thinking. These boxing officials need to learn common sense and stop letting fighters fight even if they pass their so called tests. mosley needs to retire and so does jones before something horrible happens to them, but they never get told enough is enough. they just pass their tests, get set up for the next fight, and thats it. something has to change
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They do, but the problem with boxing is that it's such a fragmented sport without an overall authority that someone will always give you a license.
So take a guy like Roy Jones Jr. Who i think needs to hang them up. Even if all the states in USA wouldn't allow him to fight, some countries would happily let Jones go and fight there.
Remember when Haye and Chisora were banned by the British Boxing Board Of Control so they just went and got a license from the Luxembourg Boxing Federation and still held the fight in the UK as normal.
Wasn't Edwin Valero only granted a License to fight in Texas but not some other places because of a previous head injury?Comment
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It should be based on a boxer's ability to defend themselves and not on a certain age. There are lots of young prime boxers who lose almost every fight and have been KOed a dozen or more times and nobody makes them retire. There are lots of young boxers that Jones and Mosley would easily beat and nobody makes them retire. Then you have Hopkins who wins world titles in his late 40s. Jones, Mosley and Hopkins all seem mentally sharp but maybe they won't stay that way. As long as Mosley and Jones get offers for high paying fights they may not retire. Toney is the guy that can hardly even talk and sounds punchy as hell but as far as I know he is still fighting.Comment
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People are only concerned when it comes to the biggest names in boxing. Nobody cares about the tons and tons of journeymen out there that travel around the world to play punching bag to up coming fighters. Many of those fighters have been in the game for decades and have like 30-40 losses.Comment
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Eventually it'll happen. Boxing is still too much of a clusterf#ck circus to do anything these days doe.
I'd like to see longer suspensions for KO L's. Like 6-12mos long. If you lose too many fights in a row I think there should be a Triple A-like or Double A-like league you get dropped to so you don't get mismatched as easily like is a problem in pro boxing or a suspension for that as well. I also feel like there should be tracking of concussions & once you hit x concussions thats a career. For sure there is a lot of improvements that boxing could make to keep fighters safer if it ever quit bsing around.Comment
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The sad thing is:
A lot of these old boxers are guys who have no money. They don't know anything else. They don't know how to make money anywhere else. All they have left is boxing.
You don't them from boxing, then what? Are you going to donate a lot of money to house and feed them? It's a sad fact, but most of these guys have no experience will really handling their money, investing, or planning things out financially. A lot of boxers don't have a good education.Comment
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Agree. I'm not sure how you do that outside of peer pressure doe. I've always been a proponent of a multi layer league like format for boxing like baseball has (mainly for competitive fight purposes). I think the only way you could get some of these RJJ or Mosley type guys out of the game is if they were embarrassed about competing in the Double-A league of boxing. Right now you can bs like you are a big deal as you are commanding 6 digit purses, which surely puts you in the top 1% of boxers, even as you are a shadow of what you used to be.
Sadly boxers seem to know no shame on the scale most athletes do, but I believe thats cuz they can fool themselves cuz your always a name pro boxer, you aren't the guy playing DH for the Tolendo Mud Hens that used to be in the MLB playing 3B & thats a reality you can't deny cuz its smacking you in the face each time you compete.Comment
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