I don't buy any of that. A guy who really loves boxing is going to want to be a fighter. Furthermore we're talking top level boxing here, not fighting for a dollar. In Louis' day they fought month in month out because they were paid such FA the had to.

Today a fighter at that level is paid handsomely, affording them proper recuperation and training before their next fight! and a comfortable lifestyle.

Every professional boxer I see has great clothes, and the finest equipment and don't look like their eating a can of baked beans. Holyfield did not fight on because he ha to. He wanted to!

If a lot of boxers are not good at managing their finances for later life that's something else, I guess taking head shots impairs judgement somewhat.

Anyway why do you single out "great American" fighters Your saying this era is bad because Americans are not dominant? As if you are the centre of the world.

I can't believe you said that! Wilder, Jennings, Arreola are American, the only reason they are not considered "great" by your standards is because suddenly they must compete with a whole world full of talented fighters and struggle to keep up.

In the old days boxing was mainly an American and British sport with some foreign involvement. Today it is a global sport, esp with the opening up of the Eastern bloc nations and the competition has gotten that much stiffer.

Furthermore, Americans have gotten fat and lazy! They come up soft. In places like Eastern Europe, conditions are tougher and they naturally produce better fighters. If the yanks spent more time training and not listening to rap music they might enjoy more success.

All that happened to America is that you got beaten. The home ground flag of HW boxing for a hundred and fifty years was suddenly uprooted by a couple of Slavs, whisked away to the opposite side of the globe and replanted in Ukrainian soil, leaving America bitter and ashamed, full of hate, full of excuses, and shying away from the cause and the solution.

Well cry me a river. They won because they come from a far more discipined society and they train harder. Want to be great again, try harder! Yu have a population of several hundred million ppl!