When Did Heavyweight Boxing Become Modern?

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  1. cross_trainer

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

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    At what point did heavyweights begin using a completely modern style of boxing?

    Was it Dempsey's era? Louis's? Did heavyweights expand their talents only after Patterson's era? Or are today's boxers much more sophisticated than their 70's and 80's predecessors?

    Thoughts?
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Lennox Lewis?
     
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  3. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Toledo, Ohio. July 4, 1919.
     
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  4. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    :yep
     
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  5. UpWithEvil

    UpWithEvil Active Member Full Member

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    About 10 years ago. Modern medicine and training have produced the boxing superathlete, clearly superior to all predecessors in skill and ability. You look at these so-called "champions" of yesteryear and can't help but guffaw - why, George Foreman couldn't even win a local amateur bodybuilding contest! Larry Holmes was practically bird-chested!

    Yet these are the ectomorphs so-called "experts" hold up as great. Ridiculous.
     
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  6. JimmyShimmy

    JimmyShimmy 1050 psi Full Member

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    We've talked about this before,

    When Ali came along and said: "I am the greatest!" the boxing world was shook up.

    What happened was an actual earthquake occured that only people involved in boxing felt. The trainers brains where shook to give better instructions and basically every who had already fought Ali was instantly better because they were now part of this big revolution.

    Nat Fleishcer predicted that it would happen.
     
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  7. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For a big change, I, (of all people) am going to translate this into something brief!
    'R-O-I-D-S-!
     
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  8. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Dempsey
     
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  9. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1950s.
     
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  10. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    Late 50s. Roughly from the reign of Floyd Patterson forward.
     
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  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    Never

    The sport has always been optimum for the rule set of the time.
     
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  12. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    When the Jew took over the English crown lol.
     
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  13. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    When fighters with titles, decided to stop giving shots to guys with records of 56-40-10......
     
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  14. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I just randomly clicked one. Don't feel like thinking today...











    (don't respond to that smart asses)
     
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  15. Calroid

    Calroid Active Member Full Member

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    I'd say when they introduced the neutral corner rule. I can't remember the date. Sometime in the 3 years between the Dempsey/Firpo and Dempsey/Tunney bouts.
     
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