Part of its just that overall boxing fans place more of an emphasis on being undefeated these days, one bad performance and a guys exposed or done. Fighters use to fight so often that they were gonna rack up some losses, look at Ezzard Charles' record, Hank Armstrong's, guys like that had a bunch of losses and not all of them were at the end of their career. Still all time fighters.

Seems like a lot of people like a guy only if he's a great fighter, then as he starts to fade or maybe is shown to not be as good a fighter as they thought he might of been then sometimes people will jump ship. Being a fan of a boxer is different than being a fan of, for example, a football team. If a football team has a few bad years they can get better by bringing in different players. But once a boxer starts getting older and going downhill he's not likely to turn it around. But fans sometimes jump ship too early before a guy's really done, Lacy's not done unless he's mentally done, I mean Barrera lost twice to Junior Jones and came back from it. And that's just one example. But I try to stick with a guy, I've been a fan of Toney since the Nunn fight and its hard work being a loyal Toney fan.