The overating of older fighters with so many fights.

It's more a case of how that same 70-fight SRR would do against 31-fight Sugar Ray Leonard (about SRL's prime). There's a vast difference in experience here. The more fights a fighter has (and against superior opposition), the better he is going to be. You master your craft by practicing it. These fighters today are a joke in comparison, with their 1-2 fights per year. They're often considered "veterans" after only 20-something fights! Whereas the old timers weren't even considered ready for a title shot until close to 50 bouts.

It's ridiculous to suggest that they would compare with the guys of the 30s and 40s, who often fought dozens of times per year.

 

Who told you that? Examples please?

 

No they don't. They talk about them is if they were what they were- 10 round fights.

And I hope you're not suggesting that these were exhibitions. That would seriously undermine your credibility on these boards. Just sayin'

 

Yeah. Ray Leonard has them, too. And 8 rounders and 10 rounders as well. I'm not getting your point here. Just about every fighter I can think of has these.

 

You're right. Fighters today sit on their butts or party for 6-8 months until their next fight. Fighters like Greb kept busy.

You're acting as if fighting a bunch of 6 rounders in between fighting 8, 10, 12 and 15 rounders somehow goes to Greb's detriment. In fact it goes to his credit.

You have strange logic.

 

Count how many fights Hagler or Leonard or Floyd Mayweather had of over 6 rounds after they won their championships. Then count how many Greb did.

No contest. Harry blows them out of the water.

 

Out of all the stupid things I've heard on Classic I don't think anyone has ever been so silly as to say, the fighters of the past were better simply because they had more fights. For instance Alabama Kid had over 250 fights and fought and beat some top tier fighters however you'll never see him in anybodies top 10 Welters. Alot of old time fighters fought regularly because they made a living off fighting something few boxers today would be appreciate, they also fought to keep busy and because they were forced to fight or give up the title. Like Surf Bat also said the only way to get better at a certain craft is to practise it and the older timers did this by fighting.

The reason people rate will Langford and Greb etc. so highly, and rightfully so, was because they fought and beat the best fighters avaliable and not only the best in their own weight class either. Between just Langford and Greb they defeated 24 HOFers, some numerous times.

 

No fights last for 15 rounds today.

Even if you calculated it by total number of rounds fought, the old timers would still clean house.