Brian Mendoza

I agree.

 

Winning a world title isn’t the only reason to stay a boxer. Lots of fighters know they’re not world level but have good careers, make lots of money, take part in good fights etc.

Mendoza’s win over Fundora has aged well. And his fight the other night was closer than the commentators were saying. I thought he won the first 3 rounds then funnily enough I thought after the headbutt he lost focus. Maybe he thought there was no way Tellez would survive the whole fight after such a bad headbutt and took his eye off the ball.

Fun fighter, tough as nails. Always good to see him on a card.

 

its easy for us to say on the outside lookin in but gotta remember its his thing and its his identity and its what hes done with his life, and its probably scary to think of stopping and having to do sometin else

 

I kinda disagree with Tszyu. I think he needs time to learn some things defensively. Not an impossible task, I think Tszyu still has a lot of fught left in him.

 

That's real good. He's a good fighter. He just needs to use real defense instead of going all out offense. In some instances. I think he'll do well in the future.

 

Let me get this straight. We've got a superheavyweight running around at 154 destroying everyone.

And the only guy whose ever beaten him should retire at the age of 32 because hes got nothing else to offer the sport?

 

You are ignoring the CTE issue raised by the OP. Mendoza takes a beating every fight, win, lose or draw; and we don't enough about chronic concussion to determine his susceptibility to it. All contact sports are on notice; yet participants, administrators and supporters chose to bury their heads and avoid the obvious danger that way.

 

True.

This might be a "boy who cried wolf" situation. I'm used to people saying "he should retire" about every fighter who loses once or twice. Maybe Mendoza really is done. The "he should retire" crowd is almost always wrong.

Just look at Tim Tszyu another example whose been mentioned here. People wrote off his career right away barely a second thought. Hes not done not even close.

 

Listen, all due respect but...Brian Mendoza...all due respect.

 

That´s like 99% of the sport.