[Super Kalleb]

Time is passing very fast.

 

[Super Kalleb]

85 percent of the fighters in this video are retired.
Roger Mayweather, Rafael Garcia died.

 

[gumbo2176]

I can't count the number of fighters I've seen come and go in my 70 years on this orb and being a pretty active follower of the sport during that time.

Although I'm not really enamored with the state of boxing for the last decade or more and really long for the days----and fighter mentality of the 60's-80's when they fought all comers and way more often than the myriad of so-called Champions of today climb into the ring for title fights.

 

[Super Kalleb]

I can't count the number of fighters I've seen come and go in my 70 years on this orb and being a pretty active follower of the sport during that time.

Although I'm not really enamored with the state of boxing for the last decade or more and really long for the days----and fighter mentality of the 60's-80's when they fought all comers and way more often than the myriad of so-called Champions of today climb into the ring for title fights.

what's your favorite era?

 

[gumbo2176]

what's your favorite era?

I posted a few days ago that it was when we had Duran, Leonard, Hagler and Hearns fighting from lightweight to middleweight battling each other and all challengers that dared face them.

Then in the heavyweight ranks there was Ali, Holmes, Shavers, Lyle, Foreman, Frazier and others that did the same as the lighter weight guys being not afraid to face all challengers their managers placed in front of them.

None of those guys backed down from a challenge to protect their record. They fought who the public wanted them to fight for the most part.

 

[Dynamito]

Time is passing very fast.

Well many of the boxers I grew up watching from the 1980’s are dead.
Marvellous Marvin Hagler who died a couple of years ago hardly got a mention in the Main Stream Media In America. Was a household name in his prime and known world wide.

If he had been British his death would have received wall to wall coverage.

The Boxers are no longer what they were and the last few remaining Legendary trainers are dying away as well not too many of them veteran coaches left, taking their knowledge with them.
Brother Nazim Richardson was the most recent to go a couple years ago as well.

That’s nature of this sport it’s cold and heartless and once you are no longer in the limelight you are forgotten.