Why can't any present greats beat any of the past greats?

Yes and the official weigh ins back then happened on the same days


You do know that making weight hurts fighters right?

 

There isn't a welterweight in the history of boxing that could beat him


And before you mention that someone huge like hearns would have a chance remember hearns didn't have same day weigh ins

 

Hearns wouldn't have made welterweight with same day weigh in though, srl is probebly the only one with a chance

With day before weigh ins robinson would have been a lightweight and I can't even see Duran being a match for him

 

It's simple, they fought way more fights per year than fighters today , against much better competition. Hence they are more experienced and would most likely win against these fighters who fight 2 to 3 to times a year

 

Throw Bitchko into the mix of Ali, frazier, foreman, shavers, Norton,holmes these guys constantly faught each other. Bitchko would fight maybe one guy one time and then bitchko would be off to fighting bums for the remainder of his career.

Sugar ray, hearns, benitez, pryor, duran, arguello, tito, haggler, barkley, toney, jones throw mayweather and GGG and ward into that tornado ask mayweather senior he got his asswhipped in that tornado

I think fighters were hungrier, and there was just more completion.

Too many ducks today, triple duck, duckweather...............

 

When Thomas Hearns fought at welterweight, weigh-ins were the same day as the fight. The morning of his first fight with Ray Leonard, Hearns weighed 145 pounds. He also weighed in the same day he fought Pipino Cuevas for the title. I know they were still doing them the same day as the fight as late as 1984.

 

It's not difficult to compare heavyweights over the years, because the weight is unlimited.

It's hard to compare, for example, welterweights of the past with welterweights today because, when you see fighters competing in a welterweight fight today, they aren't welterweights.

Last time I saw Brandon Rios fight, he weighed around 160 pounds the day of his welterweight fight. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is weighing 178 going into fights. You can't compare Chavez Jr. to past middleweights. You have to compare how he'd do with past light heavyweights.

Everything got screwed up when they moved the weigh-ins to the day before. Sometimes the guys weigh-in at 5 p.m. on a Friday and don't fight until 10 p.m. on a Saturday.

Guys are so dried out today at the weigh-ins, they couldn't even freaking function in the ring if they had to step in and fight the same day.

That's also why people are winning titles in so many divisions.

When Wilfred Benitez and Alexis Arguello won titles in three divisions - and they did it right around the same time - they were only like the fourth and fifth, or fight and sixth fighters to do that IN ALL OF BOXinG HISTORY.

Now, guys like Broner win titles in three divisions before he even fights a legit opponent, because he could dry out for the weigh in two or three divisions below his fighting weight, and basically have a 28 hours to put the weight back on and compete.

In many cases, boxers in the past had to work to "put on additional weight" to "move up." Now guys just don't "dry out" as much when they "move up."

It's a joke.

So how could you compare a super featherweight Broner with super featherweights of the past (like Alfredo Escalara) when you never saw Broner fight in the ring as a super featherweight - because he was a freaking welterweight when he engaged in super featherweight fights.

If they moved the weigh-ins back to the day OF the fight, nearly every champion below light heavyweight would have to vacate his title ... because he couldn't actually fight at that weight.

It would be a free-for-all.

 

These ducks they have fighting today can be called out and they still wont fight. unifying a title to say I am the champ period in this division is not important to these ducks.

These duck fighters today are just grooming themselves for a PPV payday that's it.

 

Let me put it this way. Future greats will be unable to beat any of today's greats. And it will keep on going like that.

 

If I live long enough I will tell the future greats that there was a time in boxing when the champs had feathers couldn't fly and all they did was duck the best fighters in there division.

 

It's not that a current individual can't defeat a champ from the past, it's just unlikely that that current fighter is better than all other champs throughout history within their weight range.

In other words chances are high that some champ from another point in time can beat whoever currently holds the title.

 

it was more competitive back in those days thats all. but some of those guys could hold there own in any era. maybe not with the same success but still be great if they are great fighters now.