Comments Thread For: Savor Your Favorite Fighters Because They Fade Away

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[TBear]

Nice piece. There is a lot of truth in this. In my years of following boxing I have seen so many fighters come and go. I had no choice but to accept a fighters career was over and move on to another. Admittedly this experience has made me impartial in a way that newer fans might not understand. But years ago as I watched my favorites lose and move on I learned not to attach myself to them and accept the concept, "may the better man win". That is the glory of this great sport!

[Alan Smithee]

I may be showing my age but Joe Frazier was my first favorite fighter. I no longer have a "favorite" but I watch and attend many fights. I appreciate not only pure skill but guts and determination as well. That's what makes the "fight game" so special!

[Eff Pandas]

Nice piece. There is a lot of truth in this. In my years of following boxing I have seen so many fighters come and go. I had no choice but to accept a fighters career was over and move on to another. Admittedly this experience has made me impartial in a way that newer fans might not understand. But years ago as I watched my favorites lose and move on I learned not to attach myself to them and accept the concept, "may the better man win". That is the glory of this great sport!

Definitely understand & feel this way myself.

There was never & will never be a worse moment in boxing than Tyson losing to Douglas for me cuz I just don't view fighters as mythical as I did back then.

Back then I had this naive opinion that Tyson was legitimately unbeatable as dumb as that sounds now. I've seen so many "unbeatable" fighters lose now & even fighters killed in or out of the ring that I've learned to appreciate the now more for what it is & what it means to the boxers & to myself as a fan.

In a way while my belief in any specific fighter has been massively reduced my pure enjoyment of the sport for whatever happens to happen on a given Saturday night has been massively increased.

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Excellent article that cover all points.

I love boxing and never attached to one particular fighter, saying that x fighter is unbeatable and riding in hype. I am a complete boxing fan who enjoy boxing to the fullest and live every moment of a fight event no matter what. I admit I miss the Golden Era of the Greats, but I have no regrets and I still enjoy this new era with the new comers, prospects, contenders, champions, veterans, former champions, title challengers, gate keepers, journeyman's, pound for pound fighters and the list go on. I admits some fights give me butterflies and tingling effect of excitement.

[Earl-Hickey]

I will say I miss Carl Froch a lot

[Oshio]

I miss the brute of a man in 'Iron' Mike Tyson. I loved and followed him. His losses and behaviors makes me less attached to fighters. Mehn, I love the sport boxing. Sad to see it going down especially in the US, the very hub of boxing, its histories, popularity and all that.

[FullEnglish]

Too true

'Sic transit gloria mundi' I think the phrase is. Excuse my Latin. It means 'the joys of life are fleeting'. Or something along those lines.
Very true in boxing.

[observer]

What's even worse is that sometimes fighters are not allowed to fulfil their potential. The most recent example is Golovkin who only got his big fight when he was past his prime, and was ducked for many years, first in Germany and then in the US.

And then there are boxers who self-destruct, like Valero and Ibeabuchi...

With Pac, at least we got to see him on the top... although seeing him fight Mayweather 5 years earlier would have been great.

[Southpawology]

This is very true. A fighters shelf life is very short. Maidana riding off into the sunset was a tough one especially when there was so many fights out there for him at the time: danny, thurman, porter, khan rematch, berto, manny, cotto at a CW, he had the world in his palms at that point coming off two PPV's.