Both Britton and Lewis sometimes weighed in below 140 for their title fights. So it would not be fair to match them with today's welters - who, as...
Have you never studied the old-timers' records - and wondered, why so many fights ended with both boxers being thrown out, because their fights...
Exactly! I think there's this misconception, that boxers from 100 or so years ago were these ultra-tough super-humans, who engaged in hard,...
So if we time-machine Leonard back to 1917, he'll end up being sodomized by a gay tennis player! What the **** is wrong with you?
You're right, of course - better quality film doesn't create worse quality of boxing! My initial post on this subject was simply a rebuttal to...
Take a fight like Ketchel-Papke, which we have all watched. In that old film we see two men who rush into a clinch, where they push and shove each...
Yes, we hear that all the time - but is it really a given, that old-timers who look awful in grainy black and white footage, would look much...
He actually does... look at post #176: Deontay Wilder versus Rocky Marciano | Page 12 | Boxing News 24 Forum (boxingforum24.com)
For someone who would favour Tommy Burns to beat Deontay Wilder... I wonder, what devine knowledge he can bless us with?
Yes, I get what you mean. I believe the Jeffries claim was 100 YARDS in 10 sconds - which, if true (most people doubt it), is still very fast!
I'm pretty sure, there's never been a world champ, in ANY division, who could run 100 meters in 10 seconds! Which really has nothing to do with...
But that's the tactic of these wannabe historians: making unsubstantiated claims about how boxing today sucks, compared to the "good old days" -...
I don't believe anyone is! It's obviously either an elaborate joke - or the work of a seriously deranged person.
Why haven't you done this thread over in "Classic"? Don't you think, they deserve a good laugh as well?
It's not about whether the scores are out of place or not - it's how you calculate them. I don't know, how many times I have to say this... but...
