Quote Originally Posted by IamInuit View Post
Fighters today are a bunch of spoiled brat premadonnas who fight once or twice a year for seven figure paydays and that’s all they fight for save a handful of guys. Most are breathing through the mouth after four rounds and running on empty after that. They don’t need a hill to climb because the rewards come w/o the risk. Its bss ackward. They couldn’t fight 15.
Spot on. I know it's not cool to wax poetic about back in the day...but fighters today, even with "advances" in nutrition and training, just don't have the same stamina as guys from the past. That is why i find it absolutely preposterous when some people say for example that the "bigger stronger" heavyweights today would just demolish the ones from the past. These guys have no fucking stamina. Aside from a handful of guys (Floyd, Hopkins, etc.) who are disciplined and have tremendous conditioning year round....i don't see too many fighters these days lasting 15 rounds. And lets not forget...cats back then weren't only fighting more rounds....they where throwing and receiving more punches. Non of this i'll take a round off bs or i'll fight in spurts. Also, now....you have way too many fighters who have no business being in a certain weight class...but try to make that weight so they can have the size advantage come fight night. How often have we seen fighters just say "fuck it" to the weight limit these days. It's disgraceful. As far as Sugar Ray vs. Winky....Winky would be tasting the canvas.