Couldn't have said it better myself. "The Sweet Science" is such a joy to read - which I have done over and over again!
I think I've already answered that - in post #85. Yes, you could ask me, where I think you said that - so why don't you?
Yes, we all know, the records are very incomplete... but you used this to argue, that there may have been as many as 25,000 active boxers in 1891...
How can I possibly prove you wrong? You have your opinion, and nothing I can say, will change that. It's like when you made that ridiculous...
You can be condescending all you want - but that doesn't change the fact, that the qoute was from an 1883 book. Which is really all I said....
Yes it was! The fact that someone is so stuck in his own time, and fail to see that the world is moving forward - that makes such a statement silly.
Yes, it was silly - as are all such claims by people who can't imagine, that there will be a tomorrow, where a new generation of trainers will be...
All I'm saying, is that this silly idea of all the great trainers dying out, is nothing new.
For as long as there has been boxing, people have been talking about how the old trainers are dying out, with no one to take over from them -...
Exactly! To some people it seems, that what takes place outside the US doesn't really count.
With the fall of "The Wall", and the influx of talent from countries that previously had no pro boxing - surely the worldwide talent pool has...
There will always be ebbs and flows - but overall, I see no great improvement in boxing technique over the last 80 years (since the 1940s) or so.
I can't even imagine, what people who saw him 130 years ago, considered good boxing.
So if he doesn't agree with you, it's because he doesn't know, what he's talking about?
Of course there's the question of what kind of physique it would take to support a 12' body. Needless to say, these calculations only work, if the...
