There are things in professional boxing and the highest level of the sport, world championship pro boxing, that will never change, damn right too.
Boxing must and will never change for no one.
In terms of its core values. These things must remain steadfast and universal:
- It is all about the fights and the fighters at the end of the day. Make the fights fans want to see and you can’t lose. Boxing will always prosper.
- Tech changes aside, boxing will move with the times but its core values of hard work, fighters training alongside those who know them best, respecting the wisdom of those that came before, will always remain.
- Hard work, dedication and boxing ability is what wins fights and develops and sees the best fighters rise to the very top to become world champion.
- Fighters careers have to be guided but frequently, now more than ever, prospects are rightly been put in tough fights earlier in the careers to develop them and provide fans with compelling, quality action in the ring.
- Grit and determination are unmeasurable metrics in boxing and always will be.
- Boxing is a sport that sets underdogs apart more than any who frequently beat expectations and create thrilling moments that stun the world more than most.
- Boxing is a metaphor for life more than any other sport, for everyone, no matter who they are, life is a fight, this will always make boxing a draw with the masses.
- Boxing, the big screen and music industries will always be close and inherently, intrinsically linked in many aspects.
- Good managers and advisers are invaluable and always will be to professional fighters.
- The jab will always be the most important punch in boxing.
- Punchers are born not made.
- Boxing trainers are the most important thing for a fighter.
- A fighter has to be able to push himself without the help of anyone.
- Speed kills.
- Precision and timing beats speed.
- Being a puncher in terms of power or accuracy is important in professional boxing.
- Injuries happen in boxing and that’s part of the sport in terms of sparring and so on.
- The boxing ring is the chamber of truth.
- Boxing’s traditions and routines in the gym, where fights are won in training and preparation, are steadfast and universal and some things will just always work like roadwork, jump rope, skipping, heavy bag preparation, speed bag, pad work and sit-ups.
