We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.
Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.