Have boxing skills progressed, or have they regressed?

So what are doing? Giving credence to La Motta for his " I never went down Ray " observation?

Most of those fights were one sided beat downs, and you think because a guy with one of the best chins ever stood up, Ray couldn't have beaten Mayweather or Pac.

Ludicrous.

 

Also, modern performance-enhancing drugs are better. No doubt we can agree on that.

 

There really is no end to the **** you talk. Fat improves chin, eh? What a rectum you are!

 

I think the honour goes to you without a doubt. It is well known a film of flab on a Heavyweight will help him, because fat stores oxygen, whereas muscle doesn't. The lower weight guys can get away with it because our vital organs like lungs and heart are all more or less the same size whether we weigh 160, or 260.

 

Wrong on all counts.
Training better? Name these super new techniques in boxing gyms that make today's fighters better? HIIT? Interval training? That is not new, hell even Greb did high anaerobic shuttle runs combined with roadwork. They all worked up the gears in 3 minute rounds. Many plyometric techniques are from the old timers sessions (tyre striking with a hammer, pulling weights during running and using a plyo box from tuck jumps and stepups) All old school plyo exercises, not new in the slightest.
The only one I'll concede is recovery. Today we are more aware than ever of the importance of recovery compared to the old era.
Sparring better today? Nonsense. There were tens of thousands of gyms with tens of thousands of hungry, hard fighters all learning from each other and travelling gym to gym, compared to the lack of gyms around today and only a few thousand pros worldwide.
Nutrition has improved but not radically. Almost all the old fighters had no choice but to eat fresh, orgnanic as thats all there was. A predominantly high protein, mid carb, low fat nutrition plan was the same then as now, red & white meat, fruit, vegetables and complex natural carbs such as potatoes,pasta. You can't reinvent the wheel. The only upside now is supplements which are leagues better (not to mention their enormous hidden use of EPO, AAS, HGH).
Boxers physiques look different today due to the insistence on weight training, which is also open to debate as to how helpful it is to isolate muscles with weights for size and strength & why plyo training and old school compound & bodyweight exercises are taking precedence in gyms again.
Truth is skills are not better today and almost all the top trainers are in agreement (Manny Steward, Freddy Roach, Teddy Atlas, Carlos Ortiz to name a few) The parry, slip, sidestep, ride & weave squat roll, infighting, feinting, body punching, footwork, and counter-punching skills that used to be part and parcel of a seasoned contender’s repertoire, they're still here but only in the skill set of the top 2 or 3 fighters.

Always the same allegations. If a guy votes against the modernist he's accused of being sentimental, despite the fact that most who vote old school are modern day fans who happen to have studied both equally. :bart

 

Are your lungs and heart in your chin?

 

Where is the neither option?

Society and sports never progress or regress. It just stays the same all the time.