When people say "modern training" what do they mean?

thats true..of course that should only matter for heavyweights.....were having a bigger pool of bigger people will matter. (although, if you have a bigger pool of anyone the best should be better, which is why big schools usually have better sports teams than small schools...having said that, one could question if more or less people are inclined to box today, in my grandfather and fathers days (1920-30, 30-40s) my town had 3 or 4 boxing gyms...kids learned some basic boxing in grade school gym class...most boys who had any balls did a little boxing..and many did a bit more boxing than that, and some even did allot,) Now a days (I live in western pa) i think we have 2 legit boxing gyms within a 50 mile radius of where I live.

 

how is it relevent for a 160 pounder..explain it too me (and please don't say what Larry merchant once said before being smacked down by steward...that middleweights are bigger today)

 

yeah..but that has to do with same day weigh ins....guys couldn't dehydrate as much...when you can weigh in the day before you can also go and cut 10 even 15 pounds of water weight and then rehydrate by fight night. That means modern 160 pounds are really 175 pounder by fight night.

Hell hatton use to be about 157 on fight nights when he had weighted in at 140....

thats why guys seem "bigger" even at the lower weight classes.

 

well you have named 4 guys.....stretching over the past 20 years really....


Do you think I could find 4 other amazing guys from any other stretches of 20 years of boxing history?

 

So you think guys have "genetically" changed over the past 50 years. Honestly, I should have just responded directly to that instead of questioning the example you gave of four guys. I should have instead just went to the root of the claim...that human genetics have changed over the past 50 years. To that the best response would have been "what are you, a ****ing ******?":good

 

yes that is a meaningful point...at least in the US the pool of guys going into boxing is smaller...

i did mention that...but no neck schooled me by saying that isnt what he was talking about..and was instead talking about some amazing evolution in human genetics that managed to happen in only two generations even though no natural selection pressures even exist (fat dumb slow kids usually grow up find each other and still **** and make more babies...positive evolution is dead..if not retrograded).