Complacency: a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. Great fighters **** up too, but you are never suppose to take any opponent lightly. Too many times fighters get praise for beating up guys that are talentwise below their level and then BOOM, you find yourself losing to a guy with less talent than your left pinky toe and a garbage record. These guys have fell victim and others will too. Complacency is not a fighters friend. Mike Tyson: This content is protected Julio Cesar Chavez: This content is protected David Price: This content is protected Lucien Bute: This content is protected Adrien Broner: This content is protected GGG getting uppercutted by Kell Brook. It' starting to show. https://youtu.be/tzCO3Q5rZF4
Those 3 were hyped to the heavens. The got too use to fighting guys off of pure talent and not studying their opponents. Lucian Bute looked unstoppable until he met Froch, Price was considered the man to beat Wlad and Vitali until Thompson, and Broner was so used to being the bigger man at 130,135, that he forgot that 147 is filled with even bigger men named Maidana.
It wasn't complacency due to the hype surrounding them that cost them those fights, the simply stepped up in class and got taken out by better fighters stylistically wrong for them.
It's fighting, there should be no style that is wrong for you. You have to fight every style and that my friend is complacency when you only fight what you can beat. After the Marquez 4 fight. Pacquiao was never going to fight another guy that can box and had bang ever again not named Mayweather. He got complacent fighting guys who stood there that the Marquez 3 and 4 fights were taxing on him. Examples are: This content is protected Clottey just stood there blocking for 36 minutes and all was forgiven because they wanted to see Pac fight Floyd so they threw in any black guy that would take the money to fill that lust. Don't believe me? Look at the comments on any Bradley fight with Manny. Bradley and Floyd are 2 different people in every way bt they are N words all the same to some. This content is protected This fight put the nail in the coffin for what type of opponent Manny will fight in the future. If they did have legs they had NO power whatsoever (Bradley, Algieri, Vargas, ). Do you see now the complacency? That led to this. This content is protected Manny is not a hype by any means but in his age for a fighter. he need not take more chances.
Complacent suggests they had the ability to win those fights. I don't think they did. I think they just faced fighters operating at a level they couldn't compete at.
you could prob throw zab on here too right?? i mean...we know he went through a period where he wasnt training seriously, partying, and trying to be an extra in rap videos....guy def didnt take his career serious at one point and what was sad was....towards the end you could see he knew the end was coming...he was older....a little more mature ...and you could tell he wished he had taken it more seriously