Are the past Eras overrated or the new generation just not that good?

The boxing nostalgists view everything from the past through the lens of rose-coloured googles and everything of today through the lens of a microscope

 

It's a crock of bull**** from rose colored glasses wearing fantasists, nostalgists and romanticists. Many of the highly touted icons from the past would be slaughtered by modern day fighters, and if they were active today, there'd currently be tens of thousands of threads on here deriding many of them as laughable skilless hypejob bums with ungainly styles, padded records, pisspoor stamina, hideous footwork, glass jaws and awful defense, who block punches with their faces, have no idea how to throw a proper punch with countless inexcusable losses against journeymen and B-level fighters with multiple losses.

 

Great minds think alike, I hadn't even read your comment before posting mine.

 

Many of the greats of yesteryear lost to, or were dropped by, or went life and death against way lesser fighters or bums.

 

Could you imagine the grief Sugar Ray Robinson would be getting now days for getting stopped by Joey Maxim a featherfist with only 22 KO's in 78 wins, with 18 losses and 4 draws. But... but... but... it was really hot, and he was exhausted!!!! Bull****! That sounds like an excuse to me! #NoExcuses!

Joey Maxim was an Aries by the way.

 

Joey actually suffered frostbite in that fight lol

Not surprising he was a beast, might have lost to a lot of the greats and best fighters he fought but his resume is crazy and he was as tough as they cone

 

Yeah, by no means was that an attempt to throw off on Maxim, but you already knew that. He was as tough as they came, and was willing to fight anybody, and gave most of them hell. It's a pity most of those matches from back then are incomplete and shoddily filmed, damn I wish HD existed back then. So we could all go back and rescore trough a modern lense, all the matches of his he lost by MD and SD, I have a feeling his record could've looked much different with fairer judges.

 

Yeah I know it wasn't I was just praising him for his Aries toughness and gigantic Aries plums

Yes that would be really cool if we could do that.

 

Quite frankly, that would open up a Pandora's Box like floodgate, the Classic section would quadruple in size, and we'd both be over there making two and three threads a day. Hell... I'd probably have triple the RBR threads.

 

for sure