At what point did modern boxers surpass old ones?

Flexb · Mar 13, 2018

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I’ve always assumed the opposite was true- that modern fighters pale in comparison to the older classic guys; say from 1940 thru 1980s. The only weight class where’s there’s any noticeable difference is in the heavyweights, who are much bigger but lack the skills and athleticism (Lennox Lewis being a notable exception). A couple of reasons for this might be that back in the day boxing really only competed with baseball as being the preeminent sport (in America) and people were just harder then. Also, money has increased greatly in boxing thereby allowing new fighters to fight much less for more. Guys like Robinson, Walcott, Charles and Moore had to fight more often. I seriously doubt if they could make 7 or 8figures for a hyped up ppv (think Floyd vs Ortiz) that they would’ve fought so often. Also, the old boys had 15 round fights and same day day weigh ins.
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100%. Also A lot of would be boxers are doing MMA. I think its pretty rationale to believe the roster of up and coming boxers are probably a small % compared to what it was back in the 80s etc. When the HW title of the world meant something really special. Now it's like the heavyweight chumpion of the world and barely any of them worthy of selling PPV even. And a look at all the classes? Man there was Tyson, Evander, Lewis, Barerra, Morales, De La Hoya, Tua, Roy Jones jr, Hopkins, Trinidad, Vargas around the same time all hightlighting PPVs. Now who is there? GGG, Canelo, .....Anthony Joshua, I don't even think Lomancheko or Crawford have had PPVs yet lol correct me if I'm wrong.

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