How dispiriting is a devastating YouTube KO to a fighter?

Wasn't it really home video tape that made it possible for the KO images to haunt a fighter, long before Youtube?

 

It can be dispiriting but it also can remind you about your mistakes. Watching yourself get KO'd on the net can also drive you to train harder.

No Im not on you tube getting KO'd.

 

Even though I said NO>>>[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQYgDfDIkR0&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

Yes definitely, and this is why managers are afraid to put their prospects in the ring with anyone with a pulse, unless there's a title on the line, or more than 90% chance of winning.

One loss is devastating these days.

Back in the 30's, they had the saying "Show me an undefeated boxer, and I show you a man who hasn't fought anyone". And it was true.

 

great thread :good

Very difficult to be anyone in the public eye in this era. Reece Witherspoon said recently she doesnt google her self anymore, because of what people say .

I read an article about someone in a band who was driven to drink and cocaine because of all the horrible **** written about them.

Every fighter is now called an over rated bum by some chump behind their computer who hasnt even been in a ring.

:-(

You have to be like a piece of iron to ignore what people say, no one likes being put down, bad mouthed etc.

I imagine boxers are no different, what will affect the legacies of fighters much more than who they fought, is the **** that is written about them on the net.