Kristian Laight

Its doesn't, but this is a form of there regular income, so if they do get stopped its an automatic medical suspension which would prevent them fighting again quickly. Not sure how long the suspension is for though :huh

 

Have you actually seen him fight or are you just looking at the numbers? The most important number on his record is the number of stoppage losses

 

You,ve got it in reverse, why would an olympian need to fight him? ive seen laight box and win but lose plenty of times, if you aint getting the decision any how, why keep going for it? but he,s probably earned more money in the last year than darren hamilton and steve williams together.

 

If he's so **** then how come so few people can stop him? 140 losses doesn't mean 140 beatings, you say "if he drove as bad as he fought, if he cut hair as bad as he fought"

have you actually seen the guy fight? he doesn't fight bad at all

 

yep, try telling that to the boxrec warriors though

 

He serves a purpose, and has a job to do.

If more than a small percentage (2%) of his losses were by KO and he was taking heaps of abuse with his brain rattling around the pan - yes, it would be a crime for him to continue getting licensed.

As it happens, he and many like him provide an invaluable service to boxing's infrastructure (especially in the UK) and make a fair living at it. I've got no moral compunctions with it, and these professional losers deserve less pity than :respect

 

that's exactly the point, Laight is a fighter you put a young prospect in with to get some rounds, he's a survival expert, the challenge isn't to beat him, the challenge is to stop him...do you realise that a lot of 4-0 padded record guys would be stopped early by these young prospects?

I'll give you another example, Naseem Hamed stopped 31 of 36 opponents he beat, one of the few guys to take him the full six in an early fight was a fellow called peter buckley, who was 18-18-5 at the time, Buckley retired with a 32-256-12 record, having only been stopped 10 times (by the likes of Acelino Freitas and a premature stoppage to Hamed in the rematch) in Hameds next fight after Buckley, he fought a 4-0 fighter called Alan Ley...and promptly knocked him out cold in the second round


and one last thing OP, do you realise how many times these guys get robbed when they do like you say and actually try and win? they almost ALWAYS fight in the opponents back yard, 140 "losses" is never actually 140 losses

 

Take it you're American Saintpat?

People like Laight aren't in the game to win. Rather than looking at how many he's lost look at the amount of stoppage defeats he's got. That's what he's there for, to give novices rounds without really testing them. The prospect gets the win and some rounds under their belt, Laight gets a payday and by not getting stopped he can fight again in a week's time.

Guys like Laight know their level and stick to it. The truth is he could perhaps beat a few of these guys but if he starts putting a few wins together the calls stop and the work dries up.

We get guys coming over here from Eastern Europe with decent looking records. They get in the ring against one of our prospects and gets stopped in a couple of rounds by someone who's been the distance with Laight or Sid Razak or Johnny Greaves.

In the US they put world class amateurs, fighters who have had numerous bouts at elite amateur level, against novice journeymen with less than 10 pro fights and no amateur background. That's probably even worse matchmaking.

 

British journeymen are the best in the world (aside from maybe in SE Asia, where solid Muay Thai fighters are often used to pad records). The lads our fighters pad their records with are far better than the guys fighters from the US and Europe pad theirs with. In the US you get good prospects put in with guys who have had 2/3 fights. You end up with farces like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgoWLyjJ3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlfI5VlZuY

Basically over here we give hundreds of fights to a handful of guys who know how to look after themselves, elsewhere they give a handful of fights to hundreds of guys who don't know how to look after themselves. Both of these methods pad records, but fighting a guy who knows how to look after himself benefits the prospect a whole lot more than fighting a guy who doesn't.

 

Very well put. :good

 

I especially love it when guys like this square off against each other - because then you know "Alright, **** off, you I can beat..."

They probably view one another with the same competitive motivation and colleagues' respect as do rivals at the elite level.

ie, Peter McDonagh vs. Karl Taylor or Jason Nesbitt, Daniel Thorpe vs. Peter Buckley, etc.

Laight hasn't really had many such opportunities, and he's earned 'em. His few wins are against novices.

 

Someone floated the idea of a journeyman Prizefighter. Now that would be fun.

 

:happy

I doubt any of them would be half as negative as usual.

With their hopes kindled by a bigger purse than any have seen, we might get some real fire. :good