Where have the Hero's Gone?

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

I'll tell you where the heros of boxing have gone. They play baseball, football, hockey and so on. Your average boxer does not make as much as your average baseball player. These other sports also have sturdy unions in place to protct the sport and the players. Boxing does not.

They have whay?... J.A.B.? Sure it'd be great if it was more high profile but it isn't. You hardly hear of it.

Most of the great athletes of our time would like to rather make money tossing a ball in a hoop or a net, catching a pass or hitting a ball.

I can't blame them. Look at guys like Gerald McClellan an Billy Collins. What futures did they have?

What smart, athletically gifted young man is going to want to participate in a sport that does not love him back.

I'll tell you where all the heros went... Right where boxing drove them... Away!

[The Fightfan]

I really don't think those days are gone.Maybe the fire in ya is starting to dim.I mean we have plenty of worthy fighters to be excited about.Manny Pacquiao,Marquez(ok a little older),Miguel Cotto,Sam Peter(ouch it did hurt to say that) Michael Katsidis,Maybe even Andre Ward he decides to fight someone worthy already.I just think the big fights that could happen aren't.I mean obviously the biggie is Cotto vs Mayweather,why not another Pac-Marquez fight or even a Marquez Vazquez again.Point being well I just made it.The big fights are not happening.