When these guys retire...

Boxing will live on. It always has. Remember that Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran were all in the same era. They left, but the big names came up shortly after. Names like, Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Trinidad, Julio Ceasar Chavez, Mike Tyson...etc. It will be just fine.

 

no it want be its the worst its been for 20 years

 

Guys like Gamboa and Valero will become stars. Katsidas has a few years left. Also Khan will be competitive for the next 10 years. Also from the UK I expect Mitchell to make a splash when he moves onto world stage. There will be plenty of up and comers.

 

Boxing will do just fine....

 

Tomasz Adamek. Chad Dawson. Lucian Bute. Andre Ward. Paul Williams. Timothy Bradley. Edwin Valero. Amir Khan. Juan Manuel Lopez. Nonito Donaire. Yuriorkis Gamboa. Koki Kameda.

Don't worry about it, the next generation of HOF stars is just waiting to rise and replace Hopkins, Jones, Mosley etc.

 

Yup, they'll get the much needed exposure. Right now the old guys are taking that away from them

 

We are already witnessing the future stars on the rise -

Yuriorkis Gamboa, 28 years old
Juan Manuel Lopez, 26 years old
Amir Khan, 23 years old
Victor Ortiz, 23 years old
Edwin Valero, 28 years old
Timothy Bradley, 26 years old
Devon Alexander, 23 years old
Kevin Mitchell, 25 years old
Abner Mares, 24 years old
Saul Alvarez, 19 years old
Roman Gonzalez, 22 years old


And this is just to name a few...

Whether they become stars or not, these fighters are fighters to watch for.

 

well you still got the Pacman and guys like Khan, Bradley, JuanMa, Dawson, Rigondeaux, Donaire, Williams, and more

 

The same was said after Lewis and Holyfield(yes he still fights but his time is up) and the Klits are doing fine. Even after them you still have Haye, Adamek, Chambers, and if he gets in shape Peters so boxing is never over no matter who retires it will live on.

 

I don't really blame him for not wanting brain dmg and going into promoting instead but I think we are seeing some of the stars like gamboa, bradley, khan, porter and i'm sure it will live on just like before after others have left

 

Boxing will be just fine we have a new generation of stars coming through as previously mentioned, boxing always has stars :good

 

This is a bad era of boxing already.

I mean you got guys like Mosley and Hopkins who are not even half of what they once were being ranked in P4P lists and on top of their divisions.

That says a lot about boxing's current stage. Not trying to take away from Mosley and Hopkins, but do you really think a prime Mosley would have lost to a Cotto??? Hells no.

 

The HW division is in worse shape than it's ever been. Sure the Klitsckos have some kind of following and what not, but this is the HEAVYWEIGHT division, the division that has always been considered the most prestige. It's been reduced to a boring, slow, full of fat asses division that not many people, especially the mainstream give a **** about.

 

I'm sure people thought similar when a years past-prime Pernell Whitaker gave a prime Oscar De La Hoya a torrid evening, but I don't think the 90s were too shabby at all, do you?

Of course no-one ever thinks the rising next generation are as good as the resident HOF-secured active stars - because the HOF locks are already proven while the rising stars aren't.

But not every era is going to be bull****, or even going to be worse than the one preceding it. By the time Paul Williams and Timothy Bradley and Chad Dawson and Yuriorkis Gamboa and Nonito Donaire and Andre Ward and Edwin Valero have had 10+ years at the top, it's definitely not inconceivable that they could have careers comparable to guys like Shane Mosley.