What Makes Fighters Hate Fighting on the Road

When you think of road warriors over the years in professional boxing there’s probably two names that come to mind and stand out more than most.

Two different boxers, men and fighters from different parts of the world as well.

Glen Johnson — who was an accomplished light-heavyweight.

Oleksandr Usyk — the 21st century heavyweight boxing Kingpin.

If you go back over their careers, they went on the road all over the world without issue, never complained and more or less battered people.

Certainly Usyk battered everyone for his part and they both took on all comers.

But they are not the norm in boxing — it is a very, very difficult thing to do to actually travel on the road and be a proper ‘world’ champion like that.

What Makes Fighters Hate Fighting on the Road

A literal world champion who’s been around the world and battered everyone, that’s rare.

Muhammad Ali kind of did it in his day as well if you go back over his career, he went everyone and beat the living urine out of everyone until he decided to stay boxing too long later in his career.

Most don’t like fighting on the road as it breaks familiarity, time away from family and loved ones, new foods and places to live and different types of air quality in different countries and different cultures and languages to keep being around and to learn parts of.

That’s what makes a true world champion though.

That’s why Usyk is very rare for these times indeed, no doubt about it. Unrivalled really as a world champion but for us Crawford is still ahead of him pound for pound based on how many weight divisions he went through and going all the way to super-middleweight to out box Canelo Alvarez recently.

Usyk has to be the greatest road warrior ever though.

Nobody can, has or will ever break or beat Usyk except himself.

It is that simple.