How can you not know, that fights were longer back in the day? I thought we all knew that. What we don't know (and obviously have no way of...
You don't know that - nobody does!
Wlad-Fury turned out to be much more exciting, than I had expected.
Neither do I. In fact, with all the fights many of them had back then, I would expect there to have been (at least in some cases) a mutual...
Yeah, I get what you mean! Every now and then you come across some weird person, who thinks that Robinson (and the other greats from his time)...
As you say, we can only hypothesize about these things, as we have seen so few of the old non-champion/HOF boxers. We will never be able to...
Me too. I think, all eras probably had great fighters, some that were not so great - and some who were downright awful! Some superbly trained...
Manuel Ortiz was the first boxer, whose record was entered into their database - hence the #1 global ID.
I believe he mastered "The Shift"... so he can't be all bad.
Pretty much the way I look at it.
Am I misunderstanding the term "deeper"? If one era has more active boxers than another era - does it not mean, that it has a deeper talent pool?...
Ocasio also challenged for the HW title (Holmes).
I've never said anything about which era had the best boxers. You asked me to provide evidence for my claim, that there are more active boxers...
A very useful source, when you want to track the development of number of fights/fighters over time, is this BoxRec thread:...
If there are more active boxers today than in the 80s - doesn't that mean, that the talent pool is deeper?
