Loss Early help a young fighter?

[Fenster]

I agree with Pugilistic. This is purely down to the individual. Losing only looks beneficial when a fighter has success coming back from it.

I would STRONGLY bet that most losses result in a career decline.

Mayweather's close shave against Castillo wouldn't have made a jot of difference to him. Even though many believe he lost that fight, I have no doubt whatsoever he believes he won performing badly. So much so that he jumped straight back in with him to prove his point.

I'd speculate on the bold slightly differently. I'll bet more often than not that loss represents a ceiling that the fighter never exceeeds but it doesn't lead to a "decline" in and of itself.

Having said that of course I'd also be that if I went through Bert Sugar's top 100 fighters of all time, 75 or more lost early.

Yes.. stalling at a "level" is probably more accurate.

Virtually all losses lead to fighters being dropped in rankings, marketability etc. To progress from the stalling point is out of the norm.