Here is BoxRec's latest decade update (as of Jan. 2nd this year): bouts decade total 1850 2 1860 16 1870 340 1880 4617 1890 16694 1900 43732 1910...
I'm curious... how do you see Mills doing in this era? Say against the best SMWs/LHWs from the past 10 years... like Calzaghe, Hopkins, Ward,...
So boxing peaked in the 60's, 70's and 80's... and from there it somehow all went wrong? That's a slump that has lasted 25 years now! And it has...
No, I'm not looking to argue with you! I'm just trying to get you to understand, that the downward trend in the US over the past several decades...
No Burt, we are not! My whole point is, that just because the number of fights and active boxers have been going down in the US - that can not...
Why on earth are you trying so hard to convince me, that there used to be lots and lots of small fight clubs - but that they are now a thing of...
Burt, once again you see boxing solely from an American perspective! You have of course been lucky enough to grow up in New York, at a time when...
I couldn't agree more! How many times haven't we heard about "the lost art of feinting"? I don't get, why people say that! It's pretty obvious...
Has boxing evolved? If we're talking skill-wise, then from the dawn of gloved boxing until today, certainly. Over the past 60-70 years... not so much!
And Schmeling watched how many of Dempsey's fights?
No, I'm afraid not. But if not already up on YouTube, I guess it will be soon.
I thought he looked pretty bad, actually! Some very awkward, amateurish moves... like throwing both arms high up in the air when jumping backwards...
:bbb Yes, a Johnson fight would LOOK different, if filmed in perfect quality. The boxers would move more fluidly, subtle details that were...
So if we had perfect quality film of Johnson, he would look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the Johnson we see in the old black & white footage? The...
I'm not sure, I understand the "Charlie Chaplin argument"! Each of the oldtimers we watch in silent black & white of course boxed a certain...
