How so? How would you describe the skillset for fighting a bigger man who gives up his height and reach advantages, exactly?
So putting aside the outliers from each era, you don't think that today's NBA teams are on average significantly more athletically gifted than...
Big men "fighting small" and ceding much of their size advantages, and little guys doing whatever it is you're getting at.
No, not necessarily—I don't think these things are at all parallel. And big heavyweights learning how to "fight big" is probably as much about...
Just to be clear, you recognize the extraordinary change in athleticism and skills in the NBA over the past half-century (his broader point), right?
Yes.
What do you mean by "sucked at fighting small"? And just to be clear, I never claimed that it was a "skill-free environment."
No. I think that when big men don't use their size advantages properly, their much smaller opponents' advantages in speed, agility, aggression,...
Yeah, part of the argument is that a lot of big men probably back could have made better use of their size advantages with modern tactics and...
Well, yeah—that's a big part of it.
Completely agree. I always cringe when people talk about this fight as if it's heavyweight boxing at its finest.
Having Duran that high might be even more unpopular...
His feet kind of tell a different story though. Definitely wouldn't call him a "pure arm puncher" but for such a murderous puncher, Big George...
Just read that he first picked up boxing gloves when he was 20 (after coming home from 8 months of WWII service) and had won an amateur title 6...
The funniest part was George swearing that Tito was intimidated by those shoulders.
