If I was been born 100 years earlier, and had been a young man in the 1920s, I would never have been able to discuss boxing with anyone - as not a...
Now there is of course no way any of us can claim to know, how the average fan looks at the sport. Suffice it to say, that I would be very...
Man, you guys really have no idea how lucky you are, being around in this era? Instead of appreciating what a great time this is to be a boxing...
I doubt, that the average fan will start thinking about giving up on boxing, because Fury and Wilder fought each other 3 times (or Fury vs...
Do we hate, that today we have 18 divisions with 4 (at least) "world" champions in each? Yes, of course. Do we hate, that the best rarely face...
Those who think, that fighters were tougher and fought harder back during the depression years - what exactly do they base this belief on? Yes,...
No doubt everyday life was harder, say, 100 years ago, during the depression. But can we from this (and what you say above) deduce, that IN THE...
Agree! Intestinal fortitude (or whatever we want to call it) is something everybody has - to a greater or lesser degree. In a boxing ring, some...
How about a 37-fight pro card?: BoxRec: Event
I think, he may be slightly overrated, in a forum like this. He was obviously a fine fighter, but just a couple of weeks ago, I saw someone claim...
Probably the only one who welcomes this fight is... Piers Morgan!
Nothing you say here proves that the fights were, generally, more brutal than today. You just wish it to be so - but the truth is, that we don't...
Take the 1920s - more than 300,000 fights (that we know of!) took place during the decade. How many of those are we able to check out on YouTube?...
How do we know, Greb's era was much more brutal than the precent - boxing-wise, of course? We know that everyday life was tougher during the...
Seems like a lot of youngsters take up the sport in the rest of the world (outside the US). A lot more countries stage pro boxing today than 100...
