The talk took place Saturday, one day after Keyshawn Davis passed on a career-high payday to challenge WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney. The legacy-defining fight would have pitted a pair of 27-year-olds in their prime who are widely regarded as two of the top talented fighters in the world. The decision was widely declared as a Davis duck.

De La Hoya, Crawford, Bradley and Porter were manning the broadcast desk for the pre-fight show of DAZN and TNT's "The Fight" on Saturday, which was headlined by William Zepeda's unanimous decision win against Lamont Roach Jr. for the vacant WBC lightweight title.

Bradley had no interest in building up the main event matchup one last time before the opening bell. Instead, "Desert Storm" came out guns blazing and fired a loaded question at "The Golden Boy," without outright referring to Davis' situation surrounding Haney.

"Do you feel like this generation is a little softer than the generation when you came up?" Bradley asked De La Hoya.

De La Hoya, who promotes the likes of Ryan Garcia, Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Zepeda, didn't hold back with his response.

"One thousand percent – absolutely," said De La Hoya. "I mean, it is what it is."

While Bradley erupted in laughter, Porter asked De La Hoya to expand on why.

"I think it's the people around them," he said. "The whispers in the ears. 'Oh, you're great. Oh, you're this. Oh, you're that.' No, you have to prove yourself first. When you keep telling a young fighter, a young kid, this generation, 'Oh, you're great,' they're gonna believe it, and they're gonna work less. They're not gonna take it as seriously. They're gonna think they're invincible. So, yes, this generation is weaker."

While Bradley agreed that today's generation of fighters is softer, Crawford bluntly asked De La Hoya if they're simply more business-oriented.

"To a certain extent, yes," De La Hoya said. "I believe that the money grab, as they call it, it's kind of taken away from going to the gym and working hard and putting the hard work first, instead of the prize. I've always told fighters, 'Don't worry about the money.' When you're winning, when you're fighting, and you have a great team around you, let them worry about getting your purses.

"You worry about training and fighting and staying in shape. You guys know exactly. You guys come from a generation – I do, too – where we work hard and the prize comes later. So these fighters are putting the prize first, and the hard work second."