Boxing, the Evolution?

1890 - 1930
talent pool, better
infrastucture, better
technique(for gloved, limit round fights), better
physical conditioning, better
trainers(for gloved, limit round fights), better
£ in sport, better

i referneced a couple of 'xtreme' sports stars as having a comparable impact on their sport to sullivan on boxing, and i think that is a good place to look at how sports develop in general, because those sports are far newer most the development has been filmed in decent quality and most of the pioneers are still around. bmx was a sport i did for 8-10 years and within that time tricks that were only done by a select few riders became common place in local skateparks. perhaps skateboarding would be a better example as there is less impact from equipment improvement, but i know less about it, tho improvements since skateboards became what they are now are undeniable even to my untraind eye.

increases in ££ and popularity of newer sports inevitably lead to vast improvements, i don't see how it could be otherwise.

edit; calling gloved boxing a new sport at that time is fair, there are vast differences between it and bareknuckle boxing. If someone thought otherwise i wouldn't put up a huge argument but they couldn't convince me otherwise, but then i think mens and womens tennis are different enough to call different sports.