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TGIFighting: Boxing Gets a New Legend, and Why Saturday's UFC Card Is Not Great

This whole "legends" boxing phenomenon comes with a caveat: Sooner or later, the legends age out. This is a problem, because "new blood" and "old fighters" are not always compatible ideas.

We all saw the sausage-making Saturday at a boxing card hosted by Triller, the media company that popularized the combat career of Jake Paul. Even as two combat sports icons were unceremoniously shown the exit, a new fixture on the nostalgia tour appears to have earned his stripes.

Legends fighters leave the ranks not because they're no longer serious competitors or face outsized risks—those things don't seem to bother anyone very much—but because their ability to merely be in the ring swinging their arms has been irredeemably compromised.