I am certain you will catch plenty of flak for this, but I think you have a solid point. Would the 205 lb Frazier or the 197 lb Spinks be...
"Any era were the best men were the lightest men is weak by default." Your argument in a nutshell--if era A has 33% of the top fighters in the...
"if all the best MW fighters today were natural WW men it would be perceived as weak." You mean like Sugar Ray Robinson? Mickey Walker? Sugar...
Lufcrazy You clearly and strongly state your case. I just disagree with the basic premise. I can't see utterly dismissing the past on the basis...
And in fairness, Marciano, Walcott, Charles, and Patterson were heavyweight champions, which by definition means they could defeat any man walking...
Just on the WWII and heavyweight boxing, the carnage was greatest in Europe, but Carnera aside, were the European champions smaller in the 1950's....
Your argument is the same as I guy who called up a radio talk show I was listening to a few years back and argued that the Oakland Raiders...
Not only WWI, but the Spanish flu, which killed more people than the two world wars combined. Nor were they mainly a bunch of old and feeble...
Cruiserweight just didn't exist in that era so I don't see the point other than the obvious one that the human race has gotten bigger so the...
The champions weren't particularly old 1950--29 1951--30, 37 1952--38, 29 1953--30 1954--31 1955--32 1956--21 1957--22 1958--23 1959--24, 26 My...
I would consider it weak prior to the emergence of Louis. Carnera being huge and somehow winning the title hardly proves this a strong decade? I...
I don't agree with the logic. Was it easier for Gene Fullmer to win the middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson who was past 35 than it...
"No he wouldn't have had huge weight pulls on the 190 lbs. Dempsey and Tunney or the 192 lbs Schmeling." Well, 220 or so is a lot bigger than 190...
There are some weaknesses in your argument. Corbett and Choynski--hard to compare them with Marciano and Dempsey. Off the ringside descriptions,...
I like Marciano to sweep. I think it very dubious to claim that Sharkey was a bigger puncher than Moore, for example. Fitz impresses me as by...
