Thread: the phrase that i do not like at all is...

Really unless your talking about a live fight or one that took place it does come down to hypothetical and speculation on both ends of the spectrum, a record shown and a record that might be. At the very least when thinking about a fighter already finished you have an idea given the styles, sizes and class he competed against and as long as you've actually seen a variety of his matches it has legitimacy. It kills me today when we are fed some kid who hasn't done a lot and shows a fair amount of talent but people are ready to say he cleans out a division or blows away others. It's a work in progress and promise and proof are disturbingly blurred at times. 'Living' a fighter at present is more revealing and we often stick with what we know, but as long as you have seen different eras...the fighter at his best and worst...not highlights, not magazine articles etc...then hypothetical on I say. To dismiss a guy because he's not today is missing an opportunity to learn something. Same holds true with yesterday talking now. It's a boxing forum. It's what we do.