Which is the following is most damaging to a top fighters legacy?

Forgot about getting caught taking PED's. might as well add that to your list as well.

 

The three I chose were

1. Avoiding the best challengers
2. Being inactive
3. Admitting to a fixed fight.

At least two of those can apply to Jack Dempsey.

 

Peds dont make u a better fighter so no.

 

Well admitting to fixed fights would be no1. Followed by being by avoiding challenges. Being inactive during ur prime years could work for your legacy depending on hiw good u are after them. Losing when ur past it dont mean **** eberbody loses.

 

Good call.

Too much is made of losing once in a while or struggling with a certain opponent. If you routinely face the best, this will happen sooner or later. Sitting on your ass and having fans writing on forums 90 years later how you'd probably beat the contenders you ducked anyway is much nicer of course, but doesn't make you into a great champion.

I think Hopkins, Wlad and Pac are model champions in that regard. They face what's out there. They've lost a couple, sure, but that's what happens if you face the best.

 

Yea i did read but u say hanging around to long which is the same thing nooo?

 

I think avoiding the best of your time is the biggest offense but some fighters have done this and have not been penalized legacy wise while others have.

I think any type of avoiding is bad, be it style or politics. An early loss has been overcome but always lingers and a fighter who fights on often leaves us with those memories when the weaknesses could be apparent but often as a fighter ages he learns survival skills

 

Yeah I just can't rate champions very high who go long periods of time without fighting anyone or those who routinely steer clear of the more dangerous opponents. That's not to say that a champion has to defend four times per year or face EVERY quality challenger with a heart beat. But there have been a number of champs I can think of who made a habit of padding their record or worse yet, not fighting anyone at all...

 

I did... I already chose the three that mattered most to me...

 

Yes they do make you a better fighter, fact!