Re: Are all British fights good for British Boxing?
Common sense needs to be used. If you can get a cracking pay day early on in your career, why not take it?
But as mentioned, there is an obsession with the '0'.
This has been creeping into the sport for years, but we (The Internet), have made it far worse than it ever was. Fighters need to realize nothing sneaks by anymore.
But they also need to realize an early defeat is not the end of the world, indeed it can improve you.
If people had seen Larry Holmes in his amateur days, they would of put you in a padded cell if you had said this bloke will get to 48-0...
If Barry McGuigan had given up after his first pro defeat, he would of been 1 and 1, but his career turned out alright in the end.
The true boxing fan knows when a defeat has potentially dire consequences, and they generally know when someone will come back stronger for the defeat.
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."
George Foreman
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