Where is everyone???

[Fitz]

The sport has just kind of gone stale for me. There seems to be none of the old school type of fighters, the big fights that could and should happen, don't. None of the fighters seem to have any character or charisma that you can buy into. Just seems like a bunch of manufactured guys with none of them willing to step up and take on anyone and everyone.

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Where are the Morales, Darchinyan, Mayorga types? The bad ass guys who aren't afraid to lose, and just want to fight the best? DLH was a past diva and about the money, but at least we got fights that he could lose and against guys that were meaningful fights.
Only about a decade ago, you had guys that proved to be nothing special but took the fights that were supposed to happen. Guys like Jermain Taylor, Kelly Pavlik, Vic Darchinyan, Zab Judah, Shane Mosley, Erik Morales, Arthur Abraham. Some 'A' class guys, some at the time were guys that were attempting to transition and take the next step into being 'A' class fighters, though in hindsight only ever amounted to being 'B' or 'C' level guys. Guys that fought in their prime weights.
Now more than ever, it seems like guys are pricing themselves out, fights aren't happening that should, fighters are cherry picking well before they should have the right to....Guys like DLH were able to cherry pick, but when they did and were able to pick and chose, good fights still happened.
Now more that ever, we are seeing cherry picked fights with 'A' or 'B' level fighters fighting other elite fights 1, 2 or 3 divisions above their prime weight. It has become boring and predictable, a bunch of generic fighters with no X-factor, charisma or style. It's boring as fuck now.
Even Cotto a guy that I loved to watch has become someone that is wrong with the sport today.
Money makers like Cotto and Canelo don't want to get it the ring with someone like GGG. Mayweather didn't want anything to do with guys like Martinez or Margarito. Like I said, back then, money makers like DLH would get in the ring with guys like Hopkins, an ATG and one of the greatest middleweights. Hopkins' after losing to Taylor moved up in weight, and rather that cherry pick and fight fringe 175 fighters, decided to take on Tarver who just recently knocked out RJJ, who at the time was considered one of the greatest fighters of our time and most unbeatable guy in his prime.
Boxing sucks now, the fighters and match ups suck now. No personality in any of the fighters and none of that attitude we use to see from even guys like Judah and Darchinyan who people used to mock at times.
Marquee fighters like DLH, Mosley, Trinidad, Morales, Barrera, Hopkins at least took fights that were good on paper and a test for them. Marquee guys in their prime like Canelo fighting Khan or GGG fighting Brook are meant to be good? It sucks and boxing sucks now, I think it's terrible and I have almost no interest in the sport at the moment. It has turned for the bad.
It is terrible at the moment and I hope it changes.