Absolute Truths of Boxing

Yeah, fair enough. I think most of these should bear the disclaimer, "As the evidence currently stands."

 

Absolute truths:
1. Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest pound for pound fighter of all time
2.Muhammed Ali is the greatest heavyweight of all time
3. Roberto Duran is the greatest lightweight and best fighter of the last 50 years
4. George Foreman would annihilate Rocky Marciano
5. Todays heavyweight division is a load of horse dump.

 

I remember that guy.
The 20th century technically did start in 1901.
But this guy was trying to tell me the 1990s started in 1991. I explain to him that the year NINETEEN-NINETY (1990) is the 'nineties, and he said it's the 'eighties .....

 

Yep, that was it.

 

Boxing technique / knowledge is a cyclical process massively dependant on equipment and ruleset, not a linear evolution of bad to better.

Brain damage and overall trauma from Boxing is overstated.

Boxing is the most beautiful sport of all, with technique, emotion, historical lineage and story all combining, like an epic or a tragedy.

Marciano was actually good.

 

I've had a few disagreements with boxrec. More for the earlier records.

 

id like to add to that Michael Gerard Tyson

 

Four out of five ain't bad!

 

He was a nutcase.He said Artur Grigorian and Laszlo Papp were p4p ATG's!

 

1 agree
2 agree
3 agree
4 agree
5 agree x 2 lol.

 

Agree but with 1 caveat.
I do believe brain damage and truma is overstated. But after a certain age is when the real damage seemed to occur.
When one looks at the history of boxing its the fighters more times than not that stayed in the game when clearly they were over the hill, and some down in the valley that seemed to end up with truma most of the time.