Answer might change if it's a combat sport athlete, though.
Anyway, to elaborate: Top boxers like Spinks are the product of ruthless winnowing. They're the best trained, but also naturally athletic,...
It's not a bad thread for absolute beginners to learn about this issue, so I'm fine with answering. No. If it was that easy, average Joes would...
At the risk of sounding morbid, I think it's a generational thing, so it'll run the same course as Dempsey and Marciano and some others did. We...
The reasons usually given by the Klitschko supporters at the time -- I believe derived from what the Klitschkos themselves said -- is that the...
But you must understand, they were very heavy pounds.
In that case, Carnera lived in the era of early electrification. It's possible that his home wasn't even hooked up to the grid. Klitschko, on the...
Carnera had friends in the Mafia, but Wlad is a multimillionaire who is related to the mayor of Kiev. I'd say Wlad has more power.
I was going to point out that boxing matches aren't scored by the length of post-fight hospital stays. And they're not. ...But it's interesting...
That said, since this thread is about greatness rather than whether Ali could step out of a time machine and beat the modern guys, it's either Ali...
Or Ali-adjacent people. There aren't that many great ways to compare across eras. But I don't think the ones we have favor the Ali era over today.
Or Leon Spinks.
Why do you keep making these threads you disagree with?
I don't think he's made to beat Klitschko stylistically. After Sanders, Wlad fought a lot of southpaws, and generally beat them pretty badly.
Ali was the cream of what was probably a better group of large athletes, for whatever it's worth. Though both were extreme outliers even by elite...
