How dispiriting is a devastating YouTube KO to a fighter?

I don't think so.

I imagine that fighters were equally affected back in the day by gossip and newspaper headlines as they are today with youtube, internet etc. It's just technology that is changing; the feelings and emotions are the same.

If anything, it may make you want to redeem yourself even more.

 

I agree, how hard would you want to redeem yourself if you were khan?

 

PUt yourself in their position, how would you feel? It must be f*cking horrible.

Example. Judah vs Tszyu

 

It's a tough call.

I mean, clearly it's more embarrassing to see yourself getting brutally KO'd on youtube for the remainder of your existence than it was when the news came and went in a day.

But, the people who matter most are the people that follow your every move (family, friends, detractors) and you have to suffer the defeat and humiliation with them with or without youtube. Who cares what everyone else thinks?

 

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNiKroscdi8[/ame]

What if that was you? He'll regret that forever.

 

Look at what it did to Charlie Zelenoff:

Getting his ass kicked by Andrew Hartley:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlxtDLPKnDA[/ame]

Has led to him counting sparring matches as real fights, buying toy championship belts, hiring bums off the street to impersonate actual fighters to fight for said toy belts, and then posting this pile of fail in an attempt to wipe away the shame of always being 0-1.

 

nate seemed to put it behind him bro :good

 

Very interesting, something to consider when you look at the grinding pressure of the boxing game...I mean, it is already hard just to be a pro boxer back in the day unencumbered by the daily graphic spectacle of the modern era, just to get through the day without the constant cloud that hovers over you even right after a victory when the next fight is on the horizon, against men trained to hurt you, embarrass you in a very public and unforgiving forum. Add to this grind the impudence of ungrateful fans in the blogs and graphic details of your humiliation, it's enough to drive a grown man to cry (say PBF's first retirement speech) or to act out irrationally.

It takes more courage than I can ever imagine to do this professionally...you'd have to have the strenght of a buddhist monk's sense of inner peace and contentment to get through the pabulum pukers in the blogs and youtube with your sense of sanity intact, a warrior of a different sort.

 

Really good question I never thought about. I think depending on the fighter's mentality it can vary. If its a very prideful fighter who gets broke i think it might hurt to see but some im sure get motivation from it. It must be hard for guys like Khan and Hatton to watch that tho.

 

There are more embarrassing things than getting knocked out. Punching yourself in the face, for one. Especially if its set to music.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdFP-R_LYSM[/ame]

 

It must be harder nowadays, esp. with videos like this one

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZFQCgsVw8[/ame]