How could old School ATGs ever be prepared to face todays HW Champions?

TYSON got KOd by BUSTER DOUGLAS in his PRIME

 

Yesterday is not today. Your question is illogical.

 

The ATG's you speak of would all take either Klitschko to school. :good

 

Marciano and Dempsey aren't great they are just hype jobs that only certain types of people like and neither were modern size heavyweights. George Foreman, Frazier, Ali ect ect ect would of beat Tyson, and either Klitschko and Foreman actually fought in Tyson's era anyway and won the title.

 

It's very hard to judge and compare fighters from the past to modern day fighters even from the clips we have on film. This is due to difference in the quality of the film back then, things such as frame rate effect how a fighter moves on film. I've seen films of Louis where he looked slow and then seen better quality films where he looked just as athletic as modern day heavies. Just watch a fight on you tube then watch a good quality download of the same fight and you will notice the difference.

Boxing has also changed and fighters have changed to adapt to the new rules. Could you see a 250lbs super heavyweight dealing with 15 rounds as easily as 12, I doubt it, if we went back to 15 rounds heavyweights would all become smaller to deal with having to go 25% longer.

This is why fighters should mainly be judged on resume rather than what we perceive they would do against their modern day peers.

 

This is what people have to remember, Foreman fought for a title 20 years after he won it in his and still won it. He was 46 god damnit.

 

'It’s perfectly okay to honor the greats of the past *and* acknowledge that modern athletes are part of evolutionary trends in sheer physicality/size, strength, and the development of craft thanks to modern technologies and advanced training. You don’t have to discredit the greats of today in order to keep the greats of yesteryear relevant.'

Something I read online today from a chap named David Matthews.

 

I know that a shot, fat and past of his prime Lewis T.K.O'd in 6th a young, in his prime roided Vitali !

 

The Klitschkos are ****ing massive, and Wladimir was almost dwarfed by Charr, Charrs sheer size gave Wlad problems, imagine how much Wlads size, let alone skill, would have troubled the past heavies, no matter how skillfull they were

David Haye, a monster puncher at cruiserweight and an athletic beast, couldn't do a thing to Wladimir

 

what about the Lewis - Vitali fight ? what happened in that fight ?:hey

 

yes the K bros are big but we all know what happened when one of them i.e Vitali met a past of his prime ATG skilled heavyweight in Lewis ?:yep

 

sure but its not like he didn't give Lewis his problems, you'd think Lewis KO'd him in a round the way your talking, and Lewis was a big guy himself