Why should it? Prospects generally are young fighters who have their career ahead of them.
When Mike Tyson knocked out Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight champion of all time he was a still a prospect, both before and after.
It's an age and potential thing. Khan is a prospect because we don't yet know how far he may go in the sport, he may just end up a beltholder, he may end up in the p4p and a multiple weight champ. He's only 22, of course he's a fucking prospect
Berto won a vacant belt I believe, he's young, he's a world champ, we don't yet know how good he is, he's yet to face an elite fighter, he's still a prospect.
You can say the same for Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell.
The transition comes when they a) reach a certain age, and thus their physical prime, and b) fufill their potential or prove themselves against the best in their weight class.
Thus Tim Bradley is no longer a prospect, he's 25 and has defended his belt against legitimate contenders now, he's a champion.
If Berto beats Mosely he will be a champion, right now he's a prospect.
It's really not hard to work out.
I think it's more murky than you say. By your own definition Andre Ward is most definitely not a prospect. He's 25 years old and has just defeated the universally recognized premier fighter in his division. He is a champion on the same level as Timothy Bradley. The only difference is that Bradley has had more defenses, but the stature of Kessler prior to the Ward fight was far above that of anyone Bradley defeated.
Yeah because he would have proven his potential.
It's not difficult missy. Ignore the alphabet belts, we all know who the best fighters are in a division.
A young kid comes up the ranks, he shows potential, he's a prospect. He 'arrives' when he challenges the best guys and beats them. Neither Khan or Berto have done that, but Berto has an opportunity to in his next fight.
He's currently a belt holder, and has shown himself to be in contention at the top of the division. Now he has a chance to realise his potential against Shane Mosely, who I'm not sure, but may be the linear champ (it might be Floyd I don't know) but certainly until Floyd came back Mosely was the man at 147.
Berto beats him he's proven himself to be world class and able to compete and win against the best in the world, he's no longer a prospect he's fufilled.
The online dictionary defines a propect as a candidate likely to succeed.
In boxing winning an alphabet belt doesn't cut it as success, we want real champs right? So when they succeed at that goal, and become a legit champ, a la Tim Bradley, Paul Williams, Chad Dawson, they move from being prospects to champs, Berto hasn't done that yet, but he has the opportunity to against Shane Mosely.
none of this prospect stuff matters. He put his foot in his gob again, something I take much delight in.![]()
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