Quote Originally Posted by the phenom
Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
The answer to this is pretty obvious.

It takes about 30 fights for a fighter to establish himself as world class, at which point he starts taking on a higher level of opponent.
but some of those losses arent reall loses arent always to high comeptition like douglas tyson got to cokcy and got his ass whipped but good point never thought of that it explains some of em
Tyson didnt get to cocky.. He was undertrained and underprepared..
I suppose it could be thought as cocky to have underestimated douglas.. But it wasnt really cocky towards douglas as that was just how his career was going at the time..