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Interesting read...thanks

You have to understand the way the business worked at that time... They wore you out... And for some guys it's almost the same today.

Managers used washed up fighters up... They got them trashed over and over again... Carnera was so washed up he lost 6 of his last 9 fights... The 3 guys he did beat had nary a win between them... Not only could he not beat a prime swinger like Haynes at that time... He could barely beat anybody.

The same thing eventually happened to Leroy Haynes... He lost 11 of his last 13 fights, getting beaten, bashed, smashed, and trashed... One of the few fighters who seemingly didn't suffer a whole lot from beatings was Archie Moore...

Danny Williams had a very similar record to Haynes.. I remember Williams saying why he lost a fight. "I was a washed up fighter. I was good for my first 40 or 50 fights. When I started everybody said I was going to be Heavyweight Champion. I even knocked out Mike Tyson. I could take a hard punch for a very long time. After that I was lucky to beat anybody. I fought one guy who was making his first pro fight. He beat the Hell out of me. It's more laziness than anything. You don't want to get a regular job so you keep going." That's not exactly what he said. Just what I can recall about. "Why did you keep fighting? Why not quit?"

Ray Mercer seemed very durable for a while,then started to get TKO'd a lot later in his career.
Oliver McCall lost a number of his later fights,but those were all by dicisions it seems.