Quote Originally Posted by spicoli View Post
was thinking about that earlier and have we really witnessed something like we are today? Really makes you think. Boxer/athletes putting careers on complete hold and answering the call. Of course wwii is the biggest with multiple top guys enlisting and championships effectively coming to a freeze around 1944 or 45'. Fighters like lew jenkins or barney ross who saw direct combat. I cannot think of a similar situation as vitali right now who is the mayor of the key city shitwit putin seeks to take. There is true honor on a world scale unfolding right now and it really puts the often pettiness of the sport in perspective. In wlad and vitalis case it is very apparent that a fighter by definition truly never retires.

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