Ok, fair enough... so lets hear about these ND fights from back in the day, that were "certainly more violent", than what we see these days....
Good, well-balanced post! I just want to say, that I do not think that, generally speaking, boxers today are better than those from previous...
No, of course not - but someone as smart as you should quickly be able to realize, that these are all matches where the referee sent both men...
So what do you think happened in the following fights, all from 1920?: 01-01, Harry Wills vs Jack Thompson 01-08, Mickey Nelson vs Joe Colletti...
The first several decades as a fan, I could not watch ANY fights on TV - and there was nowhere where I could talk boxing with fellow-enthusiasts,...
I became a fan in the early 60s - where I could only follow what was going on in the boxing world, through the various magazines I subscribed to....
The way we can easily follow boxing around the world. We are now able to watch all the big fights - if not live, then at least the following day...
The number of fights/fighters registered annually by BoxRec can be found here: Total Bouts in the BoxRec Database: By Decade - Page 4 - BoxRec As...
Now we all know, that it's very popular among "real" experts to put down the present. It has always been like that. No need to go through all the...
If a Fury-Wilder 4 is all it will take for you to drop boxing completely - then you are very lucky not to have experienced the 1920s first hand....
In 2001, Matt Green was ko'd in the 1st round by Oliver McCall. 10 years later, in 2011, he was ko'd in the 2nd round by Elijah McCall.
No one can disagree with all the points you list here. There are lots and lots of things wrong with boxing today. Things true fans would change,...
You're right, the best fought each other waaaaay more back in the 20's. But "waaaaay" is just what was wrong with the boxing scene back in the...
Now there may have been a few people, who had heard about a heavyweight champion named Jack Dempsey - but other prominent boxers, like for example...
It's the former! I'm from Denmark - and as such would have been completely in the dark back in the 1920s. As would most people outside the US at...
