Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold
I am very polite, was much more so as a child. I don't think that that is important in being a fighter. As Jim Corbett said a fighter should always find time to be a gentleman.
In the ring, it is competition and a job. You do your best because you owe it to the spectators, yourself, your trainer. I'm not a big believer in "killer instinct." The whole idea has become perverted over the years. Look at Louis, Dempsey, Chavez...any great finishers They didn't act 'animal.' Their approach was very methodical.
I think today that there is too much emphasis on "attitude" and acting the part. Just get in and do your job. The old-time guys were so humble and unassuming yet far tougher, much more "fighter" than the buffed-out posturing clowns of today.
Ah but the instinct to put a man down,and keep a man down,thats animal insticnt,its a natural instinct we have trained out of us,so we can function in society together.Ask any mobster,they can describe how you can methodically and clinically beat a man to death
Its not being a buffoon before hand,or after,its knowing when to let the beast of the leash,and when and how to put him back on.