The Biggest Sign That A Fighter Is Truly Self Confident

GGG won 7 or 8 rounds without a doubt

You can win 7-5 and still have it be a robbery

 

8-4 is a wide margin…..

 

Simple, but accurate.

Guys who make a beeline for the best, don't play diva with the terms/location/judges/etc and get the dangerous fights made regardless of what it takes.

Getting prissy about purse cuts when you're the underdog is how to avoid getting to a belt in the first place... But it's irrelevant once you're there - at that point, showing true self confidence is all in who you choose to fight.

 

It's why Benavidez accepted a 5m low ball from team Canelo, and he never heard from them again. Something OP strangely forgot to mention..

 

However you want to describe the way Joe Louis carried himself - that was confidence!

One specific example was Joe getting married just hours prior to his fight against Max Baer, leaving Joe with a marriage yet to consummated.

Max merely presented as a **** blocker who Joe got out of there ASAP so he could get down to “other, more important business”.

 

Clenelo shamelessly ducked DB