oh this forum... if a Brit / foreignor beats a USA guy, a lot of threads will be comparing them to the past USA top fighters...it's purposely done to knock the foreign ( non USA champ ). perfect example's are the current bowe v klitchsko or chagaev v tucker threads propping up the board,it is done in a very subtle way( but it is transparent none the less) and in general reeks of an agenda on the part of the thread starter,we are all guilty of it at times but it is a trait i am seeing more n more by american fans due to the globalisation of the sport and the inability to allow for the fact that the american era of doiminance is at an end (hence the cliche's like eurobums,our athletes compete elsewhere etc etc) now trying to be-little chagaev (or current fighters) by comparring him to past fighters causes what the haters call " nutthugging " the haters always cast the first stone, then cry about nuthugging, which they themselves create... you can only be the best of your era,that is all.
well said. a lot of it going on at the moment. And its pretty obvious that there's an agenda in each of these threads
I personally think the fighters of past years were taught to have a more dimensional style. Today mostly in the heavyweight division, you are seeing a lot of one dimensional fighters, and that includes American fighters.
Disagree. First of all, many HW's from the past were small and would be cruisers of LHW's today. Smaller fighters need more movement to compete with the big guys. Recently someone lamented that Klitschko never bends at the waist. Why would a 6'6 fighter with Wlad's jab and reflexes ever need to do that? Marciano was one - dimensional. Frazier knew one way to fight, charge and take two to land one. Joe Louis had no footwork. Ali never used body punches. There were only a few technically complete fighters at HW who could fight different with different styles, the most complete was probably Lennox Lewis who could go ape**** and starch a guy in one round or carefully outbox him.
