Quote Originally Posted by Drago View Post
i had a flick thru a MMA magazine & there was an article saying that boxers in general are scared to death of losing there unbeaten records & this ruins the sport, i believe this is true & as far as i can remember there has been an obsession with being unbeaten! most of the best of all time have been beaten on numerous occasions!
Being undefeated gives a certain thrill to the any sport but boxing has to be the worst. Speaking of MMA, I am still waiting for someone to beat Anderson Silva or at least give him a good fight. Silva has been owning people in several divisions a la Paul Williams I think it boils down to the fighter. It's what you do after you lose that shows who and what you are made of. We have plenty of fighters who have lost and came back to win again and even move on later into the HOF. Boxing has too many bandwagon fans We praise them when they are up and then kick them when they are down

I hear you though, we pay too much attention to undefeated when we all know that boxers pad their records anyways so it should not be that big of a deal.