It all depends on your 'mission statement'.

If you set out to have and make winning dogs, then yes. You have to breed and select traits that make winning dogs.

From that selection process, unless you have unlimited space, unlimited time and unlimited money, some dogs have to go.

When Dog A comes along and he is simply more suited and better than Dog B then Dog A needs a chain spot. Dog B is then removed from the gene pool.

My first experience with the dogs as a kid was on a yard where the bulldog only had one purpose and that was to win matches. The rabbit dogs had to both jump and run. The coon dogs had to tree. Any dog that did not meet the standards was culled.

It was said he put down a ton of dogs other people would have loved to own. When he was out of the dogs and in his 70's he then said he wished he had bred a lot of the dogs he had, even a bunch of the ones he culled. Then in his next breath he said, but if I had gone that route, I would have not won the matches I won.

Now if the mission statement is to preserve the breed or maintain gameness or maintain a family then to reach that goal does not need a bunch of W's to be successful.

I grew up as a 10-year-old kid where a dog was either winner or on his way to becoming a winner. Anything else came up short.

The flipside is that other people pushed the Red Boy family in a thousand directions, bred a bunch of dogs and made a lot of money.

With all the history surrounding Red Boy dogs, the fact they have been and still are, the most popular bulldog in history, also factor in they may be the most profitably bulldog ever just imagine if you owned a male straight off Red Boy who was the full brother to Yellow John. Then imagine that this dog could not bite and did not have much ability and his only redeeming quality was all night scratching.

EWO