So you're basically saying, that most of those who don't see the old-timers in the same favourable light as you do, are either too stupid, or too...
Yes, they surely would! But to take 5 of the most outstanding HW champs over a period of more than 30 years, and compare them to the top-10...
How can you have any idea, how much (or little) the thousands of trainers around the world study old school fighters/techniques?
Well, they are obviously wrong!
He was world champion for the first 3 weeks of the 60s - until he lost his middleweight crown to Paul Pender on January 22nd, 1960.
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You're right, of course... being an outstanding amateur doesn't automatically mean, that you will reach the same hights in the pro ranks. Howard...
I'm not discounting experience at all. Of course you don't make it to the top, without experience. I just didn't think it was necessary to repeat...
So a fighter with 100 or 200 pro fights (not uncommon a century ago, during the ND era) would be a lot more skilled and cagey than a modern boxer...
Joyce is painfully slow - but he has a Bruno-like jab, a granit chin (at least that's how it seems so far) and great endurance. His controlled,...
Let me guess... you're American, right?
Sometime in the late 60s, I suppose Manuel Ramos would be seen as the lineal champion.
I don't really buy into this idea, that today's boxers are psychological weaklings - who give up at the first sight of adversity. Surely all eras...
Very surprising indeed! Another thing that strikes me, is that in the 1980 group there are 8 Americans, and not a single European! Whereas in...
Tragic love stories in boxing? Mike Tyson and Desiree Washington comes to mind!
