why can't boxing fans get with the times?

Modern diet is what enabled him to compete. Nutrition has come so far. Vegetable are no longer mere vegetable, they're super vegetables. And meat is no longer meat, it's the fuel of the gods!!

 

So you really think boxing was better when;

It was racially segragated

It was controlled by the mob

It was controlled by one self-serving promoter

It had half the competitors it does today because of global politics. Would Stevenson ( Cuba ) have beaten Ali in the professional ranks?

Some of the "all time greats" struggled with less talented fighters of their own days, opponents like Foreman-Pires for example. If Pires had Lewis' punching power or Klitschko's punching power, Foreman most likely would not have been able to stay on the front foot. Same thing could be said for Liston.

I think the automatic "old timey boxer beats contemporary boxer" is just wrong, at least the top fighters of today.

How many times have I seen older great fighters being punched into a bloody pulp by young opponents? Too many times to mention. Foreman is the exception and even then, Moorer was beating the daylights out of Foreman until Moorer didn't see one coming.

 

Here, fixed it for you! :good

 

Inventing something makes you an innovator, it doesn't instantly make you the best there ever will be at it.

Chris Byrd didn't create any new defensive technique that I can think of, he was just very very good at using existing ones.

 

what stupid ****ing thread!!

all the other sports you named have grown and gotten bigger and more popular....boxing has done the opposite, the amount of pro boxers today is over 60% less than it was in the golden days. with waning interest in the sport comes a loss of knowledge in trainers etc.... boxing has regressed while those sports have gone forward to bigger things

 

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shut that modern nutrition **** up.

 

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What, I thought everyone knew about the new modern "super vegetables"! :blah

 

there is no golden era, boxing is an evolving sport. SRR is the GOAT MW but watch his footage, his punches were wide and looping. He was easy to hit too.

 

generally, fighters have gotten worse, not just in boxing, but in the world, at least in america.

kids are ****in pussies nowadays and cant fight for ****. they are not cut from the same cloth as the old timers when they were young back in the 70's and 80's. those were real fighters and bad asses.

 

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**** outta' here you watered-down mexican

Watch footage of Calzhage....his slaps are wide and looping...and a SUCKER for a right hand...not to mention a cringing COWARD...

 

toughness only gets you so far in the boxing ring. Floyd has destroyed so called "tough guys" and he isn't even a big puncher.

Skill > toughness

 

If anything boxing is devolving. Fighters (overall as a whole, not certain individuals) are less skilled and lack the same stamina or commitment. As far as Robinson goes, if he was so easy to bit than why was he so hard to beat? Why wasn't he hit far more often?

 

Don't start that **** again...

America has the best fighters...turn off your self-hatred for 5 seconds and look around.

 

Arnold competed in the 60's and 70's. So you are saying if there was a time machine he would come into our time and not use GH and slin?


atsch