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Thats cool. Be a bit of a drag if we agreed all the time. Fighters today are a bunch of coddled nannies compared to almost any era of the past, To many belts, to much politics, Arum hates Oscar, Floyd and Oscar hate Arum. Reduced to in house fighting and even then they only fight once or twice a year.
Well people with different opinions makes it interesting, it would be pretty boring if everyone agreed.

But I don't buy the sentiment that these guys are sissies. We still have a ton of guys who are willing to go in there and die in the ring if they have to. Sure we have our coddles babies, but go back in any era and you could find your whiners and quitters I say.

I say if you go back in a time machine, grab SRR from the 40s and show him boxing today, he'd say "You mean I don't have to fight 5 times a month?? I can make in one fight what I made fighting 10 times?? This is great!"

Could be and he might also ask. " why are there 10 guys claiming to be world champion and all holding belts"?

Conversely you take a modern day fighter back and they might say "you mean I have to fight every other week because I'll ruin my silk sheets"