As of march 5th 2008 i declare a new rule amongst those who speak about boxing....

Ha ha lolol.....it makes a bit of sense so if congress passes it I'll abide by the laws of the machine.

 

Jimmy Wilde KO Mayweather 3

 

Atilla the Hun TKO Lennox Lewis rd 12

 

Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy for Heavyweight World Title

 

Harry Greb fans aren't going to like this proposed rule.:-(

 

They would all KO Mayweather, a punch is much harder without gloves you know.

 

Ever heard of a resume, documentation's of boxing historian's and achievements?

 

Hit that nail right on the head.

 

Paper records don't mean ****.

Even in this day and age think about all the times that a score, decision, stoppage, point deduction, disqualification, or ANYTHING that happens during a fight - doesn't seem to reflect what actually happened in the ring. Or what you read about the fight doesn't seem to have anything to do with what happened in the fight itself when you look at the tape or think back to the fight.

The latter especially is VERY true. Every different journalist tends to have a completely different take on a fight.

I mean, imagine if all you have to tell you about Chavez-Taylor 1 is "Chavez TKO12 Taylor

THAT is how much we miss when we read about Old Timers. If there isn't video, how can we possibly say how good some of these guys are? And in MANY cases, the video quality is so unbelievably shitty that theres no WAY you can tell anything from watching them.

And if you claim you can, then you are lying and just trying to make yourself seem 'deep' (in the boxing way) as a boxing fan.

This is how those guys Top ATG P4P ist oes:

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. - 7. The old timers that are the most obscure and hopefully people will think I'm some kind of really big boxing fan and historian
8. Ray Leonard
9. Aaron Pryor
10. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

If you really love the old timers thats cool. I like reading stories about them, newspaper reports, anecdotes from guys like Bert Sugar. But its impossible to say they are better or worse than anyone today.

So pointless.

I'm so sick of that ****.

 

Put this is the classic forum and you will get raped

 

Alot of these people simply dont rate the new generations of boxers very highly.

 

So what you're saying is that it's just as valid to write off their old school achievements as it is to overrate them?

This is illogical Jim!