Old fighters Move on and let the young guys......

Well, its hard to say. Its hard to give up your heroes. So long as Shane can still bang it out like only Shane can we're still gonna watch him. I think Oscar can do two more fights but then he should retire. Missed the Forrest fight. But so long as they are still sound and if they loose they loose competively than I don't see a problem. The young guys are not having much of a problem right now gaining an audience. It's tradition in a way to have the young guys inheiret the throne they gotta take out the old guys. Mosley's fans became, for the most part, Cotto fans.

 

Boxing needs the big names like RJJ, De La Hoya, Tarver, Mosley, Forrest etc to stay for the moment until the youngsters coming through like Gamboa, Khan, Angulo, Kirkland, Dirrell, Greene, Julio, Berto step up to the next level.

 

Good points from both of you. I am frustrated at a lot of the good dates--as well as larger portions of the network budgets--going towards fights like DLH/Forbes. However, as much as I want Bernard Hopkins to just move on, it's not like seeing him fight Calzaghe was a waste of time; that was a fight for the legitimate championship of the light heavyweight division. Mosley has shown that he can still hang with the best at 147 and as long as he keeps fighting the top guys, then it's not a problem.

What is the problem, though, is when you start getting guys going on what has been dubbed the "senior circuit". Hence, fights like Jones/Trinidad that have already happened, and proposed bouts such as a DLH/Trinidad rematch, a Jones/Hopkins rematch, Jones/Calzaghe, etc. are rightfully disparaged. They do nothing for the current landscape of the sport and prevent other, worthier fighters from taking the dates.

 

Please add Jorge Linares and JuanMa and Christian Mijares to that list ...Did we forget any others? Boxing ain't dead folks!!!

 

Mosley is still a good fighter and even though he lost to Cotto, would give anyone in the top 5 at welterweight a difficult fight. You are correct about the other fighters though.

 

except for possibly cotto who else do you see beating oscar right now?

 

The only one of these senarios that you point out that wouldn't be that bad is if Floyd stays retired long enough to make sure his rematches with DLH and Hatton don't happen and then he comes back to fight the only fight that I want to see him in, which is PBF Cotto.


For Cotto this is the best senario. Because when Oscar fights him in December he will not have lost to Floyd again, meaning that his image will not be as tarnashed as it would otherwise have been. This means that Cotto will get more credit for beating him and the fight will be a bigger seller. Hopefully it pushes Cotto into the same or nearly the same kinda superstar status as it did for Floyd. In this way when Floyd and Cotto finally meet it will be a much bigger fight.

 

No version of DLH today beats Cotto. The version who fought 4-6 years ago is long gone.

 

Margo, Paul Williams, Clotty, theres probably others too. I mean the guy couldn't dominate Forbes for christ sakes.

 

actually the guy is a mosley fan too, he's from LA.