Complete the gap in the following sentence: "If you don't like ______, you don't really appreciate classic boxing." I look forward to wildly diverging and unprovable statements from everyone! And if you want to write FACT! in caps after your subjective statement, don't let me stop you...
If you don't like arguing about size, inches, how far those inches go, what those inches mean, the reaction those extra inches get, the full realisation of those inches to fistic completion, you don't really appreciate classic boxing.
This is not my personal opinion, but of many posters on here. "If you don't like old school fighters more than modern fighters, you don't really appreciate classic boxing".
If you don't like putting the room to sleep, talking about how criminally underrated Alex Blanchard was, you don't really appreciate classic boxing. But seriously the answer is abstraction.
Well most would suggest modernism ran from the 1890s to the late 1970s, so I think the statement is simply not true. Postmodern, they may have a better point...
But on a serious note- If you do not appreciate Mayweather call him yellow, boring ect. you cannot appreciate classic boxing, all the subtle often missed things we love In fighters like Charles are the epitome of the old pugilist breed in which Floyd fits in with.
