He looked horrible against the average Ibragimov yet says that he will continue to fight. I think he should hang it up or he's going to get seriously hurt plus he may damage his legacy if he continues to lose to fighters like Ibragimov. Your thoughts?
2007-10-14 11:48:23 · 9 answers · asked by Cool Breeze 2 in Sports ➔ Boxing
There comes a time in every fighters career when they have to hang up the gloves, and for Holyfield that was when he lost to Byrd and Toney. Even given the weakness of the heavyweight division, no good will come of Evander continuing to take punishment. His legacy is already cemented and part of history, no matter how sad the ending of his career is, it will not change the glory of his past accomplishments. Holyfield must eventually realize that he cannot continue to box professionally, unfortunately he doesn't appear ready to do that yet. We can only hope he decides to retire before he gets permanently injured. Untill then, about Calzaghe/Kessler.....;.
2007-10-14 15:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But then again, his legacy is already tarnished. Even if he quits now, people will still view him like they view Ali - as a champion who was once incredible, once the best, but tried to hang on too long.
Luckily for Holyfield, the heavyweight division is weak as hell right now. So weak, that he's even got a very slim puncher's chance of making his dream come true.
I doubt he will, though. Ibragimov is probably the weakest of the heavies, and Holyfield didn't come close to beating him. To win at that age, you've got to have incredible power and a granite chin (as Foreman did). Holyfield's got a good chin, but even in his prime he wasn't the hardest hitter. I think it would be a brilliant decision for him to quit now before someone like Sam Peter or Vitali Klitschko who CAN fight damages him permanently.
2007-10-14 16:05:06 · answer #2 · answered by Havick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, his legacy will not be tarnished by anything he does right now. The boxing community has accepted the fact that boxers do not know when to quit. So they don't judge boxers on what they long after they should have retired.
For instance, Thomas Hearns have fought as recently as 2005 and 2005. He looked terrible, as we would expect from a 48 year old man. But nothing he did after 90s will tarnish his legacy or his legendary fights against Hagler, Leonard, Duran, etc.
2007-10-14 18:57:24 · answer #3 · answered by atl_ace1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its alot like duran sticking around forever losing to fighters everybody knows would havent lasted a second with him in his prime,holyfield is a all-time great who loves to fight ,everyone knows the holyfield who is losing to average joes isnt the holyfield of yesteryear.
2007-10-15 12:35:43 · answer #4 · answered by victorottchiefs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely right! Real Deal should've quit a long time ago, preferably after the second Lewis fight.
2007-10-14 15:33:46 · answer #5 · answered by bundini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Even if he`d of been stopped it still has nothing to do with his prime and his prime is where he will be judged. As to the mediocrity of the heavyweight champions all I have to say if the Russian champions are mediocre the Americans must really suck. Any of these current champions would obliterate the so called champions Tyson beat to become world champion.
2007-10-14 13:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He should have beaten the slouch Sultan. Losing to him should prove the the greatest boxer in history that it is time to call it quits
2007-10-14 13:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nah he's just old and everybody knows how bad *** he was in his younger days
2007-10-14 11:53:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He already has!
2007-10-15 04:29:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋