Originally Posted by
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He's probably been paid very well vs how good he is, like a lot of german champs, as was said. Dariusz was the same way, he was supposed to fight Roy Jones but nobody really cared because he would have gotten his ass whipped.
Ass Whooped or not, as a fighter you life for those fights. I'd put it like this, because of Castillo's and Corrales's opportunity to fight Mayweather, Corrales vs. Castillo was bigger than it should have been. But instead of looking like Floyd's leftovers, they had a life-defining fight that no one could have imagined it being that way.
Where would Manny be without Marquez... Floyd without Corrales or Manny... Holyfield without Bowe... Lewis without Holyfield... Leonard without Hearns.... Hagler without Hearns... etc, etc... If you are as good as you say you are, then a life defining fight- for good money, of course- is important!
Take a look at Andre Ward- there is not one life defining fight on his resume other than Carl Froch, and that is now muted and it wasn't billed as a life-defining fight because no one respected Froch for being as good as he was. Even though Froch beat the snot out of Taylor, Taylor was expected to win and in reprisal should have gotten more press-push than it did.
Ward needs a life-defining fight with Stevenson, Kovalev or GGG. No one else at this point and time matters. No one!
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