Great boxers of yesteryear who would do f-all in the current era

Saddler was genius at fighting to the absolute limit of the rules and no more. Pep dropped more points in their series than he did. He was DQ'd once, late in his career, in the main for excessive holding I think, and it was seen as being a bad DQ caused by outside interference of some sort (I forget).

He wouldn't get dq'd I don't think.

 

I agree with you that Mayweather has the skill to compete in any era. However, I understand he has hand trouble which might be detrimental to him in the 1940's for example, where a top black lightweight or welter would box very, very often.


I'd look to some of the great fighters that boxed without gloves who hated the gloves, Jiimmy Carroll comes to mind, can't imagine what the likes of he and Jim Jeffries would make of the 10 oz "pillows".

 

I think Robinson would beat Maywather very handily.

I think Robinson would mop up.

 

No

Nobody.

All fighters who fought up to 200 fights over 25 yrs have/would.

Except LaMotta is far better than Alvarez.

You're completely wrong, and almost every fighter, trainer, writer and matchmaker that you could ever ask would agree with me :good

 

LaMotta is better; beyond all question.

Boxing 200 fights was, sure.

That fighters spar and box less in the modern era is a real problem for the era though, a bad one. Obviously enough.

 

It was bad for the fighters, generally good for the level they were boxing at. Doing something more often makes you better at it.

 

But they didn't just do it "against inferior opposition", they fought more ranked contenders, too. Actually, however, fighting against "inferior opposition" is exactly what is recommended as the #1 way to get better at fighting, it's called sparring, and they did that more, too.

They fought more great fighters.

They fought against a larger disparity of weights, often.

They fought over longer distances.