When did boxing become modern?

The biggest jump to my mind, was Jem Mace beating Sam Hurst.

 

It's also hard to measure just by looking at one or two of the top performers in the sport (easy to mistake particular boxers as representing the norm when they're really unusual outliers).

 

Hurst’s main claim to fame is being the man that Mace won the title from, but he was very much a bareknuckle boxer of the traditional school.

Mace seems to have had a style, much more akin to an early Queensbury fighter, like Peter Jackson.

Hurst fought from the traditional stance, and employed grappling techniques, while Mace covered himself in oil to prevent his opponents getting a grip, and tried to outbox them.

 

Not a fair question in my mind.

The modern boxing style began circa 1920, since then not much has changed.

The average contender has better nutrition and training and HW fighter have gotten bigger, but in terms of the elite fighters, I doubt anyone cam show me someone more modern than Mike Gibbons.

 

I would say the 60's was the beginning of modern Boxing. By then top guys weren't fighting 5x a month anymore

 

Joe Louis ushered in the modern era for the heavyweights.
In the same decade Benny Lynch at flyweight looks just as modern
Dempsey and Louis look like they fought a 100 years apart.

 

Seems to me that boxing became modern round about the same time as film became modern.

 

It was a Tuesday...

 

Sounds about right. The pace seemed to pick up for a start.

 

Fighters were very herby jerky back in the day. Sometimes they moved in an unnatural stuttering fashion.

 

Modern boxing was established with Jack Broughton 1743, England.
James Figg, professed champion of England 1719, had established the combats as amphitheatre entertainment and offered formal training, but Broughton firmly separated the fist fighting from the weapons fighting and established written rules.