Often at the highest level of professional boxing it is often a game of very small per centages that can separate winning and losing at the highest level.
Even in today’s times of professional boxing, where you have your Usyk’s, Inoue’s and others near the highest level of professional boxing at the moment.
The difference in ability level and work ethic is marginal at best and often times it comes to just on the night how the fighters box themselves in the ring.
At that very highest level of professional boxing it can come down to just who wants it more at the highest level of professional boxing and how a fighter simply fights on the night itself.
On the night is a big factor, a fighter’s form is a huge factor as well, in terms of how they react on the night when they get in there.
For instance Anthony Joshua went into the Jake Paul fight in genuinely terrible form after the worst knockout defeat seen in professional boxing of the 21st century.
So on that occasion it can come down to simply the winning mentality.
Who wants it more? Who wants to really win?
In those championship rounds when the going gets tough, over round 10, round 11 and round 12, down the stretch, who can really hack that pace and really swim in those deep waters?
The Winning Mentality In Boxing, Can It Be Taught
A few claim they can and say they can, and want to be world champions, but very few don’t mind really going into those waters.
People like Floyd Mayweather, Joe Calzaghe and Lennox Lewis come to mind in that regard and always had that edge about them that even when hurt in a fight, or say even if a fight wasn’t always going there was necessarily, they always manage to adapt in the fight and find a way to win.
Can this winning mentality really be taught to a fighter?
It is difficult to actually say, we don’t think so to be honest, because it just has to be inside them to dig deep and not only dig deep, but think smart under pressure while fire fighting.
Many fighters are courageous and have great heart but the very select few of these winning mentality fighters above seem to be able to calm in the heat of a fire fight in professional boxing, and be smart, and break a guy down technically in the middle of the fight relative to what they see in front of them there and then.
Mike Tyson said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face and when that first bell goes this winning mentality.
That almost Michael Jordan mentality to always win in life and sport, who wants to lose at anything? Why would someone in their sane mind want to lose?
How would that make sense or have any wisdom or logic to it?
We’ve certainly never heart of boxers wanting to lose and at the highest level the winning mentality is everything, 100 per cent.
On Calzaghe, here’s something he and Pacquiao had in common that some might not realize.
