You're right, of course - we'll never be able to do that. We are also not able to match Louis with Ali, so we will never actually know the result...
And this is supposed to prove what exactly?
This whole debate is rather funny! As we all know, boxing today is very different from back in the "Golden Age" (20s and 30s). But to claim that...
So you're dismissing the possibility that many of these boxers could have had a tough childhood - on the grounds that we haven't polled every one...
There are thousands of boxers from Eastern Europe and developing countries, where we have no idea, what kind of conditions they grew up in. To...
Yes, I don't see, how it can be any different. The silly notion that today's boxers are cowards, that couldn't have made it in the old days is...
If today's boxers were born 80 years earlier, and they took up boxing in the 1940s - then some would make it big, while others would fall by the...
I'm not saying, that punching power can't be improved at all with training. However, in most cases the training component is second to the...
Is the opinion of the majority the truth? Not necessarily. The majority of Americans believe there is a God... which any sane person of course...
I'm talking about durability only. Whether boxers today are massively more skilled than 100 years ago is a matter of opinion. Some certainly are,...
It's dangerous to make sweeping statements like that! Especially where durability is concerned, I don't believe there's anything to suggest, that...
Walk down any street in The Philippines, and ask 10 people, if they know who Manny Pacquiao is. Do you think, you could find even ONE adult...
You're right, of course - older records are likely very incomplete. And the further back, the more incomplete. So there must almost certainly have...
I feel quite offended by this! I'll have you know, that I have spent many hours studying boxing history on BoxRec. So many in fact, that I can...
How many times do we need to go over this? Please see post #55!
