Interesting article, I do think fans put too much stake into being undefeated and not enough into consistent level of competition.

Ezzard Charles had 25 losses, most of them were when he was past his prime and fighting as a HW but he had four losses in his first 32 fights, got knocked out in one of them after being dropped 8 times. Charles already had credibility by beating guys like Burley and Joey Maxim, but still if a fighter got knocked out after being dropped 8 times in these days, and it was his fourth loss in 32 fights, he'd be thought of as exposed or done by a lot of people. And that's just one example, a lot of great fighters came back from multiple losses.

So yeah I think we put too much importance into being undefeated, we shouldn't call a guy done just cause he has a couple bad nights, or even just one. It makes fighters and their managers be more cautious in making big fights cause of the fear that if you have one bad
you're thought of as exposed

Except for Judah, he's been exposed