''We don't want to admit it, but athletes gets better'' ...& Mike Tyson Mysteries

Mike Tyson Mysteries renewed by Adult Swim for another season! :happy:happy:happy

 

Yeeeeeeeesss!

 

The only thing that has got better is the short cuts !!!



This is why boxers menatatilities are weaker

Conditions are worse

Fundimentals have digressed I could go on and on as to how much worse athletes are today when it comes to skill !

 

I wasn't sure after that S1 finale. They went out there, man.

I loved it, but for most audiences (hell, even most Adult Swim viewers) that **** got maybe a little too weird.

 

That's most of Adult swim shows I had felt like that at first about the boondocks ,Then look ,if the writing is good you will end up with a classic .

 

:nod

I was afraid it would be gimmicky or an embarrassment to Mike but the writing & voice acting was on point. It got me to actually LOL multiple times per episode.

 

The other factors to consider is that championship matches use to be 15 rounds and now they're only 12, and I do think some skills such as feinting, parrying etc. have diminished. Boxing is a sport where you're only as good as the coaches. Most of the legendary coaches are gone. But athetically speaking, and for the most part ignoring the heavyweight division where slobs can fight, I do agree that athletics on average are better.

 

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger

 

Every hear of Willie Gault ? He still runs master athletics . Look him up .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1JX8NB-4QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOLb3lKsEhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qSyQQv6Is

Explain what exactly makes old heavyweights better than the current ones.

 

i always thought boxing was the exception to this rule to be honest

 

Conditioning and better fundamentals .. if a young Larry Holmes was around today he would dominate

 

Athletes do generally get better. But in boxing the pool of talent has gotten drastically smaller. It was once the most popular sport in America, next to baseball . From 1920 to 1970 it was the sport, so it attracted the athletes. So that's why boxers haven't gotten better. If the best we're fighting, say if Michael Vick was a middleweight, or Lebron James was a heavyweight, then the answer might be different, but the best athletes don't box anymore in America. Although the counter to that is, that boxers now come from all over the world, so now globally the are more fighters. All I know, looking back at pep and those guys, they had superior technique to the guys fighting today. Maybe not the physiques, but clearly fighters from the era are far more comfortable in the ring, something I've only seen toneu and mayweather posssss from this era, that level of comfort , and composure in the ring. That comes from rounds man, a lot of em.

 

Apparently you didn't watch the video or don't grasp what the fundamentals of boxing are. :-(

You think Tony Galento was well conditioned?

How are Spinks-Coetzee and Baer-Galento more fundamentally sound than Chagaev-Povetkin? I can say why they are not fundamentally sound in comparison; balance, timing, short punching, keeping the guard in proper position. The old timers were all over the place.

 

Lol at the hypocrites pretending the chronically obese 5'7 Tony "two tons" Galento would be competitive today.

Have you ever seen him fighting? Dustin "the worm" Nicholls is like ten times more athletic and active than the embarrassing Tony Galento.

Butterbean is like an athletic freak, compared to Galento. Galento would get murdered by today's tomato cans. Completely obliterated.