It has been maintained that the "nuances" of Jeff's defense are lost in the primitive films of his era. But if the films don't show these nuances...
Fair take I think. I did find the comparison to Fullmer to be out of joint. Fullmer carried his guard high and tended to bounce all over the...
This is true but what kind of criticism is it? Bigger? Fact of life in heavyweight boxing. Years younger? Guesswork if any version of Fitz...
"Jeffries, Lewis, Klitschko, Ali" All guys with terrific physical advantages over the majority (even vast majority) of their opposition. Jeff,...
"The advantage kicking a football from the side is not at all obvious a priori or from casual observation; the advantage of holding your hands up...
I don't think the idea in the ancient or medieval worlds was the same. It was not based on any real knowledge. Any modern use of bloodletting...
Replacing blood is different from just bleeding. They used to open a vein to let out large amounts of blood. Modern thinking would be that they...
I am not certain if you are joking or not. Leeches are used if a body part like a finger or ear is detached and reattached as the leeches get...
What was the purpose of bleeding and why don't modern physicians still bleed sick folk?
Okay. What exactly is the reason to carry your left hand below you waist plus off to the side and even slightly behind you? Also, just because...
It might have been difficult to get oranges and bananas, but the country was much more rural and your "everyone starving" take is not the world I...
The height of soldiers actually declined from the Civil War to WWI. Reasons? Where the immigrants came from and the heights of their genetic...
I wouldn't disagree with your points here, but mine was just that a sample of 100 is much less vulnerable to distortion from an aberration than a...
"nutrition" "putative advances" "simply do not exist." So your take is that the average person does not have better nutrition today, at least...
"Top 10 data" versus "top 100 data" Well, I don't know what was said or wasn't, but a top ten is so few fighters that the results can be...
