It’s easy for a promising fighter to just say those words to please the masses. What boxing fan won’t support a guy who says boxers need to go back to when Muhammad Ali fought Henry Cooper, Sonny Liston x2 and Floyd Patterson all in a row or Kenny Norton x2, Rudi Lubbers, Joe Frazier and George Foreman in the duration of 18 months?
It’s not just words for Walsh, though. He demands that his words be marked. When he’s at the top, he only calls the heavyweights.
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“I really think when I get to that next level, I’ll fight anybody,” Walsh said. “I’ve had this mentality all my life, I’ve never said no to a fight, I’ve never walked away from a fight. Whoever they tell me to fight, that’s what I’ll do. It’s my job to fight, so why wouldn’t I?
Besides his frustration with boxers earning paychecks faster than giving the term “undisputed champion” the weight it once carried, Walsh’s “feed me to the wolves” mentality comes from his closeness to MMA. , where losing a fight to a Khabib Nurmagomedov or an Alexander Volkanovski doesn’t send you into immediate darkness.
“So many of these top guys overrate themselves,” Walsh said. “In the UFC, there are champions who have six defeats; everyone has some losses. This is how I think boxing should be. Everyone should be fighting at the highest level and a loss shouldn’t make such a big difference to your career. I think if people looked at it like that, those big fights would happen.