"You're only as good as your last fight"

[Mammoth]

How true is this statement?

[Mammoth]

Seems kinda bull****ish to me

[jas]

a fighter may look bad against a certain style but good in his next fight vs a style that he prefers to fight

but for the most part, "youre only as good as your last fight", is true, and useful when analyzing aging fighters

[-Kev-]

Someone told that to Pavlik after Hopkins looked old and every bit his age against Calzaghe and well, you saw how that turned out.

[Doctor_Tenma]

If that were the case Mayweather wouldn't have beaten Pacquiao.

[Blender]

Yeah, its mostly true. Obviously some fighters become legends and are more safe from that, but losses always hurt.

And there are plenty of fighters that were red hot and who fell off extremely hard after a single loss.

[-Kev-]

How about fighters who look great in a fight, then in their next fight look terrible.

This is simple: It was just something someone said, with unsubstantiated evidence, it sounded clever, it wasn't some kind of proven scenario that was tested with a scientific method. There isn't some kind of 10-year data showing fighters coming off losses or bad performances, what do they do in there next fight. This saying simply caught on and is believed like it's true, but it's actually proven wrong many times. Off the top, Froch losing to Ward, beating Bute next. Ruiz losing to RJJ, beating Rahman next, Pacquiao losing to Mayweather, beating Bradley next, and so on.

[GhostofDempsey]

Unfortunately this is the overlying sentiment among the casuals on here and every other forum. They don't consider a fighter's volume or work or accomplishments during their prime. Duran is an ATG and HOF'er, yet if we judged him by his last five fights he would be ridiculed, called a hype job, and considered overrated by the fan boys on here who are only familiar with modern era fighters who manage to hold on to their zero until the end.

[Madison Boxing]

seems to be the case on this forum, golovkins stock plummeted after jacobs fight, kovalev was a flat footed one dimensional euro after he struggled with chilemba, usyk was the future of the cruiserweight division after beating glowacki but now hes nothing special after losing a couple of rounds in his last fight.

[Mammoth]

seems to be the case on this forum, golovkins stock plummeted after jacobs fight, kovalev was a flat footed one dimensional euro after he struggled with chilemba, usyk was the future of the cruiserweight division after beating glowacki but now hes nothing special after losing a couple of rounds in his last fight.

Get out of my thread!!!!