Have boxing skills progressed, or have they regressed?

That's nonsense of course. Every imaginable sport (track & field, chess, tennis, swimming etc. etc.) has improved, just like boxing has over the last 100 years.

 

There's zero difference. Both are sports that work on athleticism, workouts, training, strategy. The only difference I give you is that one is a team sport and the other one isn't.

 

i have to say progressed. in the eighties guys like duran leonard chavez were around. nineties had holy, pea, and finito. now we got pbf, jmm, morales, pac and ward.

 

lots of basketball fans consider bill russell or wilt tha stilt that best ever, and they were around in the seventies. did the nba regress??

lots of soccer/football fans consider pele the best ever. did that sport regress?

babe ruth is still considered the best baseball player ever and he's older than suger ray!

 

It is important to understand that skills do get lost over time.

The lost wax casting process is an obvious example.

Cro Magnon man produced flint tools of such intricacy, that no modern craftsman has ever been able to replicate them.

The main reason why we will probably never have another Mike Tyson, is that there is no longer a Cus DaMatto to train him.

Even so, the greatest modern fighters such as Hopkins and Toney, will study old film if they have to, in order to learn the black arts.

 

The simple fact that 40 yr old boxers can compete successfully is proof that the current crop is worse than the old time fighters. How many 40-something hockey or football players are stars today?

 

How many fighters today do I see going to the body and throwing uppercuts? How do you expect me to answer that, with a number or what? I see plenty of fighters doing that. At the higher level, there are few who don't. Wlad doesn't throw many body punches but neither did Ali.

As for blocking and parrying, what are you saying - that boxers now just punch each other in the face without even trying to defend themselves? That's ridiculous and makes you look like a certifiable lunatic. You are suggesting that fighters today are literally ******ed or something.

You talk about Tyson studying old school techniques for hours on end but Tyson couldn't fight inside and couldn't fight his way out of a clinch - that's why he was so easy to tie up.

I told you that average fighters didn't live in the gym, they worked regular jobs (often more than one) just like they do today.

So post the film evidence then. Show us what you think is so special, all these wonderful techniques that have been lost. Let me tell you, you will fall flat on your face when forced to present REAL EVIDENCE.

 

More nonsense. Some technologies were lost when they were completely eclipsed by new ones. Even this is unlikely today, because the details of any major technology would be recorded somewhere, even if it became obsolete. However, relevant skills in a particular field such as boxing do not magically become lost - that's absurd.

 

Boxing is no longer a popular sport. Less people box and therefore the talent pool is smaller. Add to that the politics that allows guys like Floyd and Broner to handpick their way to the top, then you have a severly depleted level of boxing compared to the past.