Old Time Fighters - Durability

Mike South · Mar 3, 2009

ChrisPontius said: ↑

One thing you have to take into account is that a lot of those fights the older timers had, were against very undeserving opponents, even when they had reached their prime. This is nothing against them; fighting often was simply the best way to get attention and people to see you before the TV era. And that couldn't always be a top level opponent, but that does screw up the "1409584 rounds, never KO'd" statistics.
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Good point.

Mike South · Mar 3, 2009

salsanchezfan said: ↑

.........People weren't superhuman back then. All the histrionics aside, what it boils down to is two factors in my opinion:

First, fighters were better schooled in the old days. By virtue of the fact they fought more often, they learned more, and were better capable of dealing with tough spots in tough fights.

Second is the offshoot of idea #1. Fighters fought more often then, but didn't fight real big-time talent all that more often than they do now. It's the in-between fights that are missing now. A fighter's network contract is big enough now to the point that they don't have to take a lot of non-title or "keep busy" fights in between televised fights, so why bother? I sure as hell wouldn't if I already had the check. These somewhat inflated career numbers of the old timers can be misleading in this way.

Let's put in this way; there were an awful lot of Buck Smiths in those days.
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There you go.

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