Dempsey as a modern fighter-

That's for sure possible. It could be that a bit of a corner will be turned out of the pandemic. Personally I think the ppv model has some years left to it, probably in multiples of decades, for really big fights and that inflation will call some purses north of that. Will be interesting to see what the middle east will bid for Fury-Joshua, should it transpire.

The bottom line though, is that for a generation the idea of the biggest riches being at heavyweight is a headscratcher. It hasn't happened like that. If you remove Mayweather all together the biggest earner becomes Pacquiao is all, who is probably overhauled by Canelo.

 

Unoquevically he didn't cut. Of course he didn't cut. Why would he cut?

I believe the complete opposite, and this is absolutely apparent in my view, but, I've never used the argument. My point is this: even if you are completely right, Dempsey could STILL have cut 10lbs plus under modern conditions and recovered, completely, without ill effects, for most of his life. This is supported by science, and eyes. That is, fighters DO IT and then box absolutely brilliantly having completely recovered thirty hours later.

I don't want to offend you but reading your post I feel like you don't understand what a cut is. A cut is a fighter trained to a quill who undertakes weight drain before his weigh in to make weight. He then refuels. He doesn't "Rehydrate". That's not what happened. The science has changed.

Recovery from weight cut is the single biggest change in this sport for decades. Amazing it's so ill understood.

 

Well we can agree to disagree, that is true. But what i'm saying is: the big money isn't exclusively at heavy any more and fights don't have to go there to get it. This is irrefutably true. So i can't understand what we're disagreeing about? But ok.

 

Yeah, I've been sniffing around Dempsey's two fight series with Johnny Sudenberg and he probably was a super-middleweight around that time. He is repeatedly referred to as "a middleweight" around this time though I suspect he was not one in a literal sense around the time of the fights with Sudenberg. He may have been one shortly before that, I don't know.

The point is that it appears Dempsey probably weighed in around the 168lb weight limit during his 1900s career. I'm not prepared to state what that would mean for his imagined 2020s career because people just don't seem to want to cope with the reality of what a light-heayvweight JD would be in 2021, never mind a SMW JD.

But objections to his weighing in as a Super-Middle in the modern era can comfortably be dismissed now. He did something very like it in his real life.