I don't think they fight too often.
People bring up the old guys fighting 200 times (and several times a month) like it's the way it should be, like it was a good thing.
I think the amount of times those old guys had to fight was just a sad indication of the times. Do you think SRR wanted to fight several times a month? He had to, because the promoters and the mob took most of the money and you couldn't make as much off of one fight obviously as you can now with PPV.
Boxing is a dangerous, dehibilitating sport, and we should want our favorite boxers to retire and have a great quality of life and not end up pugilistic dementia like guys like SRR, Dempsey, Louis, ect ect ended up with.
I think 40-50 fights with multiple titles is a great career. Yeah 200 fights looks good, but that was a different (worse) time.
Floyd could go on little "tours" and fight bums in each state a couple times a month like the old guys did, but who would be interested in that now adays?
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