This notion of Marciano losing by cuts or corner stoppage when ever he is matched against any big guy or modern heavies. so bizarre a guy who never quit let alone cut losses in this fashion.
Yeah too many mythical matchup threads seems to make up about 3/4 of topics on the Classics, I mean Ron Lyle vs Frank Bruno ?? Prime JCC vs Sharmba Mitchell ?? Who gives an F really ?? Maybe some threads asking long time boxing fans what there particular memories were of an era in one weight division or a fighter was at the time, not in hindsight. Anyway I'm off to start a start a thread asking should Tyson have stuck to wearing the white shorts he did early in his career and if so would he have retired undefeated ? Then maybe an Ali vs Michael Moorer thread.
My biggest pet peeve is the assumption that the sport of Boxing continually advances (and today's boxers are automatically better), because of 'Modern Nutrition and Sports Science.' This is similar and in part-way linked to the 'bigger is better' type of thinking (another pet peeve). Rarely, if ever, do I see anyone consider modern nutrition and methods, as being potentially detrimental to Boxing performance.
Don't bother with the Ali v Moorer thread, Gate. Ali never weighed more than 225 while Moorer could be as high as 230-235lbs. Modern day chips and burgers. Ali wouldn't have stood a chance.
All this is words typed and sent into cyber space, it is not real life, so hard to get peeved as such really. However that said, i enjoy a good debate on the subject of boxing as much as any other fan, but when it turns into making personal jibes etc rather than constructive debate then yes i guess i get peeved. These jibe makers to me seem like immature kids, once it gets personal i shut off, perhaps those throwing the jibes, lacked guts to try their luck to be a warrior inside the squared circle, and now do so safely as keyboard warriors.
Fighter A’s critique gets based entirely on things that happened before age 20 something, if not their single best night. Fighter B gets put under a microscope for things that happened in their late 30s.
I see more evolution in other sports than boxing. The big evolution in boxing styles was in the 1930s and 1940s. Now I can see the case where some HWs in the past might be too small for more modern ones, but the rest of the sport? I don’t see it.
Agreed. The sport of boxing most definitely does NOT advance. Not everything does, after all. I mean, who speaks Latin anymore? Some things wither and die.