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No fighters are immune to criticism nowadays, athletes as a whole are more nitpicked on the internet. Of course, it also gives people better insight as just to how disturbed some fans are by getting so emotionally attached to athletes and seemingly trying to live vicariously through them, but that's another story.
Here's what people in the past would've likely said about pre-internet era fighters.
Larry Holmes: unify damn it! Give a guy a rematch after he gives you a tough fight!
Salvador Sanchez: stop ducking Eusebio Pedroza!
Eusebio Pedroza: an uppercut to the testicles is not a scoring punch!
Sugar Ray Robinson: quit asking for too much money, and pulling out of all these fights at the last minute!
Aaron Pryor: you should've taken the $500,000 offer from Ray Leonard.
Sugar Ray Leonard: you should've offered more than $500,000 to Pryor. You low-balled him.
Marvin Hagler: stop ignoring the public challenges of the light-heavyweights and fight one of them.
Jack Johnson: (besides the racist comments). Fight a black contender!
Wilfred Benitez: train!
Here's what people in the past would've likely said about pre-internet era fighters.
Larry Holmes: unify damn it! Give a guy a rematch after he gives you a tough fight!
Salvador Sanchez: stop ducking Eusebio Pedroza!
Eusebio Pedroza: an uppercut to the testicles is not a scoring punch!
Sugar Ray Robinson: quit asking for too much money, and pulling out of all these fights at the last minute!
Aaron Pryor: you should've taken the $500,000 offer from Ray Leonard.
Sugar Ray Leonard: you should've offered more than $500,000 to Pryor. You low-balled him.
Marvin Hagler: stop ignoring the public challenges of the light-heavyweights and fight one of them.
Jack Johnson: (besides the racist comments). Fight a black contender!
Wilfred Benitez: train!
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