Most representative "old school" heavyweight workout users?

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  1. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Of all the heavyweights who engaged in "old school" conditioning back in the day, which fighter or fighters would you consider the best and most optimally conditioned? If you were going to show boxing workout programs to future sports scientists, which heavyweights would you point to as the most sterling examples? Which "old school" fighters' workouts would you select and canonize as the gold standard to put into a time capsule? Whose would you be most curious to dig up as the best available?

    Nominees must be heavyweights in their primes before the 1985 Spinkspocalypse put a different sort of "new school" training on the map.

    Marciano? Patterson? Ali? Norton? Leon Spinks, even? Joe "Heavyweight Hank" Frazier? Dempsey? Joe Louis? Name your guys.
     
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  2. Marvelous_Iron

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    Marciano and Frazier due to their legendary stamina and punching power, I think they had less genetics working in their favor compared to say Ali or Foreman

    Patterson, and I'm gonna say Tyson too, Cus wasn't doing anything "new school" with him, and that's right on the line of Tyson's peak, obviously he had genetics in his corner
     
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  3. FastLeft

    FastLeft Well-Known Member Full Member

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    why? Tyson destroy Spinks.
    & Tyson did not copy Spinks new training! Lol
    Tyson=the old school
     
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  4. cross_trainer

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    Because Spinks was the model for future strength and conditioning by elite boxers. That's when things started to change.
     
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  5. FastLeft

    FastLeft Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Spinks train to fight Holmes is model for weight gain. yes

    my point: if Spinks brought new method (I am not sure is true. but you believe) you can say his era was other boxers all ' old school ""
    Tyson is good example for thread. but ok you has barred from him being including!

    in that case is Frazier!

    most brutal= Beau Jack!
     
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  6. Terror

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    Jim Jeffries.

    That guy was jacked. His physique was next level and he went 23 rounds with Corbett. Top level heavyweights even 30 years later couldn't duplicate his look and functionality.
     
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