Quote Originally Posted by imp View Post
Im asking who you think in todays era has not done all the things floyd is criticised for?
You won't get an answer haha. People want to villify Floyd so they act like he's the only one who did it.

If anyone did any research they'd know that champs have been doing that since boxing's beginnings.

Read Jake Lamotta's autobiography: he mentions the fact that there were certain black fighters who were absolute killers that the champs and other upper-level guys wouldn't go near. Jake even goes on to say a lot of them would have chased champs like SRR out of the ring.

So take Sugar Ray Robinson, the consensus #1 of all time.

-Avoided fighters (this has been stated by peers like Jake Lamotta)
-Egomaniac with a large entourage (he even hired a midget to make him laugh/cheer him up)
-Beat the shit out of his wife and kids (a fact confirmed by his kids)

I don't see how he was all that different from Floyd, but people love to talk about the old guys like they were "real men", as opposed to the sissies who fight now adays.