I agree with this too, but I think he's talking about Legends being in your career v. only current boxers. It's like when Madden had that year of putting in Legends and they all showed up in your season until EA released a patch. People were going nuts about that, so it should be approached as another mode. With boxing, it comes down to a more comprehensive boxing career manager. Insert your created fighters, set their record, skills, etc. At the VERY least do like NCAA did with having a quick name edit of existing boxers and their record.
I totally agree with SHAKYR on trying to please two markets in one game. Makes no sense to me. If you want arcade, you buy arcade... Anyone here still think about Facebreaker?
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/907/907165p1.html
The main trends I see from sports gamers is realism, licensing, career and presentation. You leave out any one of these key factors, and we're left feeling empty. To me boxing has always been left behind for new gimmicks and arcade qualities. Where's HBO, Showtime? Where's WBO, WBF, IBF? Where's Sports Illustrated? Where's newspapers and media? Where's multiple weight divisions? Where's historically correct match-ups? Where's career fighters with consistent win ratio records? Where's a fight that ends with one knockdown? Hey, the great Frazier threw in the towel against Ali, where's that? I guarantee you just get decent gameplay with 2/3rds of these missing links, and you won't have to add any gimmicks or arcade nonsense.
Other thing is, when something is fixed, don't break it. SI, newspapers, media are here one year, then gone the next. KO Kings has multiple weight divisions, gone the next year. To me, building on a franchise is keeping the good, while continuing to add to it. Then add the icing on the cake. Just don't take out the good ingredients already there. I'm out!