When did fighters start to "protect the 0"?

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  1. Jeffy

    Jeffy Undisputed Champion

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    No need. 72-1 have self confidence.
     
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    A lot of it was influenced by fighters fighting far less often than they once did
     
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    Seems reasonable. Reasons for why fighters stopped fighting are difficult to gather too though. Did the game change only outside or also inside the ring
     
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    No fighter who test consistently himself vs the best during an extended period of time will keep his perfect record, and Floyd is definitively no exception to this. While a long undefeated streak does show consistency and should be valued when ranking a fighter, focusing on the ''0'' leads to ''superhero'' worship and is the leading reason why promoters keep on feeding us mismatches (see Joe Calzaghe and Lucian Bute)
     
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    A MAJOR Contributing Factor is Network Television...

    In Modern Day Boxing, You're Basically NOBODY Unless Your Bouts are Televised...But Networks LACK the Air Time to Showcase ANY Fighter Double Digit Times in a Calendar Year, to Match the Frequency of the Times Guys Fought in the Good Ol' Days...

    That's Why Today's Prospects Fight 5-7 Times a Year, Then Watch their Number of Fights NOSEDIVE 1nce They Become a KNOWN Commodity...

    Errol Spence is a PERFECT Example of This...He'd GLADLY Fight 5-7 Times a Year, Still...But it's Not as if Al Haymon's Going to Allow an IBF Welterweight Title Fight, Featuring a Guy in the Pound for Pound Mix, to Take Place OFF Network Television...

    As a Result, Spence SITS...

    When All is Said and Done, Spence Will have Fought 1 Time in 2017, Thru NO Fault of his Own...Luckily, his Stablemates, Jermell Charlo and Robert Brant, Have Each Fought 2wice This Year, and Spence Has Assisted in their Camps to Keep Himself Occupied...






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    USA was Tuesday Night Fights. Foxsports had a lot of Sunday night fights in the 90's. I'm not remembering when ESPN had fights. Was it the 00's that it shifted to Friday Night Fights for ESPN2?
     
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    If REED Isn't Mistaken, ESPN's Tuesday Night Fights Featured Some of the '80 Olympians Who Unfortunately DIDNT Get to Participate Due to the Boycott...

    Richie Sandoval, Most Notably...Guy by the Name of Freddie Roach Appeared a Time or 3 Also, Though he Wasn't an Olympian...

    Main Events Signed the Likes of Johnny "Bump City" Bumphus and Davey Moore, who Fought on NBC...



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    Espn2 had tuesday night fights I think in the early 2000's. I'm sure of it.
     
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    I don’t think that I have seen anyone as infatuated with his “0” and bragged about it as Mayweather.
    The funny thing about it is that most of the greatest fighters in history are intent on achieving greatness by doing what others have never done and wowing the public. This is difficult to do while keeping that “0”.

    Floyd would rather chase the money.
     
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    Nonsense.

    Corrales and Castillo fights...were not the type of fights someone takes if they’re just out to protect the “o”. Neither the de la Hoya fight at 154 when you were only recently fighting gatti at 140. Nor facing undefeated highly touted much younger and much bigger Canelo.

    Floyd haters are just full of shit
     
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    Weight drained Canelo who was barely even of age to drink? And shot to shit Delahoya? Cmon man. Let’s s not pretend that those bouts weeent strategically timed by Mayweather like many of his fights were.
     
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    "Barely even the age to drink"?

    Hilarious. Seriously though...Canelo was 3 years older than Tyson was when he destroyed Berbick. Be reasonable.

    "Shot to shit De La Hoya"? Floyd Senior didn't want his son to take that fight!!!!! Why would he be so scared for a shot to shit De La Hoya? The answer is...he wouldn't have been. Oscar had destroyed Mayorga in his previous fight.

    Double L, the poster, had said back then (a year or so before the fight) that Floyd would never fight De La Hoya. Why would Double L say that if he thought that Oscar was a gimme for Mayweather?

    Stop trying to change history pal.
     
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    Who gives a fuck about what Double L said?? Is he the boxing guru that you always refer to for answers?
     
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    Lol. Leave me out of this. Please.
     
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    In retrospect Oscar was past prime and Chico was badly weight drained (planned on moving up for his next fight, then of course Floyd calls him out at 130 right then and there) but the truth is neither of those fights were considered gimmes at all. Many people picked Chico and Oscar.
     
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    Double L is THE most respected boxing historian this side of the Rockies. Show some respect.
     
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    Exactly. Hatton was no gimme either. Floyd may have been the favourite (Floyd has always been the favourite) but Hatton was undefeated and highly touted at the time, people seem to forget this. Canelo is another one. For someone supposedly desperately trying o maintain his "O" Floyd sure did take on some of the best names of his era.

    Also...say what we want about Mosley now....Shane looked GOOD in his previous fight against Margarito. No one had been able to do that to Margarito, before or since, not Cintron, not Cotto and not Pacquiao. Shane fucked him up...and then faced Floyd in his next fight.
     
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    FightBeat was split 50/50 on the Oscar fight, the thread is there in the archive. I consider it a great win for Floyd, personally.
     
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    Not Hatton though, Hatton was shite.
     

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