It is true, hard work is important but the truth is in boxing like anything in life, the best people always rise to the top because of their ability more than anything, and their work ethic.
If you go back over in boxing history, all of them, Terence Crawford, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, all of them, the very best boxers were gifted by God at boxing and professional fighting.
That is the reality of it.
A promoter in the UK said it best who has been around the sport forever, on fighters getting bad breaks and so on, he basically said that eventually if the fighter is good enough to become a world champion, he will.
If he’s not, he won’t.
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Now, a lot of times it frustrates fans understandably when fights don’t happen and previously you could definitely say this was down to oor matchmaking and bad management and advisers behind the scenes waiting too long to make a big fight happen.
But ultimately though, fighters involved in these fights that may have not happened, or happened way later than when fans wanted to see them or the fights were no longer relevant when they happened, those fighters if they were good enough to become world champion, they were.
All of the above worked crazy hard though, they did, same in MMA in mixed martial arts with the highest level champions in the UFC and other organizations in MMA.
If you look at the very best fighters in the world their ability far exceeded that of their competition at a given time, with the exception maybe of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao’s era.
Some will claim if Pacquiao fought him a bit earlier in his career he wove given him a much better fight, but we tend to think Mayweather had his number and just would have beaten him at any time.
Calzaghe as well, he was unrivaled and undefeated in his time, but he was a genius in there, always looking for the opening and one of the most competitive individuals that was ever created on this Earth.
