How Would Modern Training Techniques Would Have Changed Past Fighters?

The biggest change would be the weights that they fought in. Rocky would have been at the highest a supermiddle, Robinson a jr welter or maybe even a lightweight, Lamotta a welter maybe even a jr welter. Those guys fought so often that they usually just fought at or around thier walk around weights. Today with the 6 to 8 week training camps and the advancments that have been made on cutting weight and staying strong would have forced those old school fighters to fight much smaller today.

 

biggest factor would have been diet from an early age.

it would have made them all heavier and bulkier than they were then if they were fighting today.

that is the reason there were so many flyweights and bantams in those days , simply because the poor nutrition and diet of the working classes meant there were so many smaller people than there are today.

jimmy wilde fought about 60 uk flyweights and they were the top ranked flyweights

i think there are about 2 uk flyweights out of a population of 60,000,000 today.

 

and that was wilde's walk around weight he used to weigh in in full clothes and still come in under the flyweight limit

 

They would be probably have more muscle, but worse stamina.

 

Their core strengths and weaknesses would not change much. Their strengths may be enhanced some, but essentially they'd still be the same sort of fighters. IE. Slow guys would still be slow, weak punchers would still be weak punchers. (Perhaps to a slightly lesser degree, but not by too much)

Two aspects I do see changing is:

1) They'd hold onto their primes longer, or at least extend the downside of their careers for longer periods.

2) They'd be able to jump up to higher weights than they actually did.

Robinson for example, would have challenged Maxim weighing an actual 170-175 pounds or so, instead of the approx. 160 he actually weighed.

These two factors could have made a big difference to their legacies, imo.

 

They would also have been making more money so more time for training and not having work a 9-5 on top of boxing.

 

I'm starting to think cuco is a subtle troll.

 

If by "modern training techniques", you mean steroids/supplements/chemicals/bull semen along with the healthy diet, you'd probably see more guys having won more titles in higher weight classes because they'd handle the extra weight better.

 

Very little change in the modern era. "Modern training methods" is the most overstated and ridiculous theory. You've got a tin of whey, so what.

 

one thing they might lose is their 'hunger' , what would Rocky and Lamotta have been without their burning hunger ?

 

more ****ing half weights....yep, Carmine Bascilo could have hung on to a Lt. Middle.....Robinson might well have been super Middle champ.

Half the guys today could not make the jump up a full weight to take on a One and Only Champ...instead of some 1/4th 1/2 weight champ.

He like the contenders gets to pick and chose which Champ he preferes to fight and not the one and only champ.
Back inthe old days if a Cahmp reached down to fight someone who was 6th or 7th single line contender he was having a easy tune up fight.

Most of the Champ's manditories today are, 6th or 7th best fighter in his HALF weight.

So I think many fighters today that you are so proud of would never have become the One and Only Champ at all, much less Champion of the world in two real weight classes.
Armstrong would have been 7 weight Champ at the same time.