I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

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.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.