"the 1950's was the start of a more global trend" Just looking at The Ring's annual rankings at heavyweight, there were top ten rated...
"the number of major 'boxing nations" has grown" How much? Here is a list of countries which produced a recognized by The Ring in its ratings...
I have no set answers about this talent pool issue. Just questions or observations for thought. "world population . . . has grown quite...
"Pascual Perez" "prior to winning world title, had not registered a single win over someone with a winning record." Worse than that. If I read...
First, thanks for doing all this research and for sharing it with us. The number of fights by the rated fighters is interesting, and the decline...
I have been watching some of Usyk's fights. Not all yet. My guess is he would have done very well against the classic, orthodox boxers of the...
Thank you. I think a fine premise to investigate and a great bit of research. I would notice that the rest of the world promotions have...
Fair point that Usyk is a finished fighter. The main point I was trying to make about the old fighters is that they reached the same total of...
"So is the 'quality' of today's talent pool worse or better than 50-60 years ago?" Who really knows, but I looked up the world champions from the...
"dismiss the idea, that there are great fighters today" Not me. I think it almost impossible to judge fighters across time except on record in...
"Today's top youth aren't screwing around in sandboxes or empty lots or getting pointers from random guys who played on local bush league...
Well, here are the Kentucky Derby winners' times for 1964 to 1973 and for 2009 to 2018 1964--2:00 1965--2:01.2 1966--2:02 1967--2:00.6...
"I don't think you qualify yourself as a MW contender by beating WWs." Fair enough position, but the people at the time apparently did not think...
"today's baseball players are better trained from childhood" How can anyone say that. Just look at the ages of most of the games big stars...
"The simple fact is that Graziano hadn't fought one MW contender and only one middleweight in all when he got the fight with Zale." This begs the...
