Professionals weighing in on old timers' abilities?

What's the point of this thread? More disrespect to innovators of the sport? I have had my share of arguments with folks in hypothetical matchups between era's but these kind of threads serve no purpose. The classic forum should be about honoring fighter's not shitting on them. Enough already.

 

Fair enough. Just so sick of these threads turning into now against then threads as opposed to wow, that dude fought his balls off and died way early and broke but influenced hundreds if not thousands of fighter's to fight their way out of the gutter.

 

The fighters from the golden era were real fighters, they conducted themselves as true professionals. They fought often, no excuses not to. They fought for prestige and for a purpose. They had pride and dignity, they were humble and respectful to their opponents, not boastful. They did not depend on Modern (Steroids) Nutrition, but hard work to prepare for their bouts. Their hard work showed, roadwork, sparring, skipping rope, and work on the heavy bag. Today's fighter appear spoiled, they want everything to happen now, and they are overpaid.

 

I agree with everything up until the evaluation of today's guy's. No doubt some are on steroids but most are not. Some are over paid but most are not. All wraps have their faults and glory.

 

Agreed, but how can anybody grow to the size of the Empire State Building?, I know it is not Organic vegetables. People today want things now, life is not like that, they need old fashioned hard work to prepare for a bout.

 

I hear you to an extent. Times have certainly changed but it's all good with the bad. Back then, people of my race couldn't fight for a title because of the color of their skin. Now we have guys that fight once a year and alphabet titles. A dancer dances and a fighter fights. It is the same but different.

 

I hear you friend, I lived through that era you speak of, I experienced that too, I am 62 years old, we were told to speak only English. I also read, speak and write in Spanish. I think that Anthony Joshua fights more often than Tyson Fury, who is full of excuses and something else.

 

I think the exact opposite would happen: If we assemble a group of experienced boxing people (ex-boxers, trainers, managers or whatever), who have been involved in the sport for most of their lives... wouldn't they almost unanimously claim, that modern boxers suck compared to the great fighters from the sport's "Golden Age" 100 years ago?

 

Look man- Valuev, Rahman, Byrd and Ruiz were monsters I tell ya- Your paper champions couldn’t compete in my era.

 

Whether you have been in the game for 50, 60 or 70 years, the boxers who have impressed you the most, will almost always be the ones you grew up with, read about and (possibly) saw as a youngster.