Who is/was more skilled Crawford or Pernell

Hard to tell but when Tapia, Marquez, Barrera etc are bottom rung on these lists you know it is stacked.

 

No they just fought the best, no need for youtube.

 

Let us stop with this absolute nonsense once and for all.

The boxers do NOT get better over time.


This is a ridiculous assumption made by ignorant people, based mostly from athletics based sports such as sprinting and swimming.

Yes, those sports have seen athletes record faster times, in a sport that is timed in milliseconds.

Fractions of seconds.

In athletics, power = speed.

Racing from point A to point B, in the quickest time possible.

The guy who puts up the better athletic performance = is the fastest.

The better athlete = the quickest.


Boxing is 2 guys in a ring, pitting their styles against each other, in a physical game of chess.

In boxing, the most powerful guy doesn’t always win.

The fastest guy doesn’t always win.

The bigger guy doesn’t always win.

The technician doesn’t always win.

The southpaw doesn’t always win.

The swarmer doesn’t always win.

Skills and styles determine the winner.


Do you understand this?

Although sprinters and swimmers etc, have to have great technique, power and stamina are the most important factors in their sport.

Whereas in boxing, it’s far more skilled based.


The sprinters of the 80’s weren’t as fast as the sprinters of today.

However, there’s MANY fighters from the 80’s and EARLIER, who were better than MANY of today’s guys.


Any great fighter from any era could beat any other great fighter, depending on how they matched up stylistically on the night.


I’m sick of reading this BS.

Now I’ve told you and that other fool the same thing over and over:

There are MANY divisions which are WEAKER today than what they were 20-40 years ago.

So: No. The boxers do not keep getting better.


Just view the lists and educate yourself on the fighters on them.

Go and look at the list from 1999.

Where on earth is the progression from that list??

There hasn’t been any.


The sport of boxing does not keep progressing.

It reached a plateau a long time ago.

The sport simply ebbs and flows.


Now instead of ignoring these responses from very knowledgeable fans, go and educate yourself.


That absolute clown who believes that Pea couldn’t have competed in today’s LW division, needs throwing into shark infested waters.


Stop digging your heels in and questioning our knowledge.

Instead of fighting us, absorb the information and expand your own knowledge.

 

Why don’t you tell us in your own words how boxing has come a long way from the 90’s.

 

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Bud

 

Crawford or Buddy McGirt would be a more compelling question

 

I'd like to hear you try to back that up

 

Duran`s fundamentals were awesome.