The largest champ against the smallest, what happens here ? Can Burns flit around Valuev like a wasp around a sandwich and come out unscathed or is sugar Valuev too much man ?
limitless - Tommy 15 - 50/50 12 - Valuev Power is really overrated by modern fans while stamina remains severely under focused. Also, there seems to be some weird belief among fans the threshold for humanity has changed or skewed higher in some way. It's really just ignorance that has anyone ever argue that any modern super HW is going to use their size advantage to pick on the much smaller HW champions from earlier times. Most of the periods we cover historically while speaking to weight divisions or divisional champions is like short hand or even code. Most history buff fans seem to know all weight divisions and therefor any claim to weight divisions are informal to nonexistent for quite a large portion of history. It is sometimes a needed semantic to make a point to a broad and uninformed audience. All of this is to say, no, science, nutrition, medicine, do not support any theory or idea that modern men would somehow exceed the limitations of physics and/or biomechanics measured through all men if given an opportunity through time. Because, no matter what you're eating, it takes more energy for a large man to move, they produce more heat, it takes more time for them to recover, there is no such thing as a diet that will ever see any human being 100 pound heavier than another with equal metabolic rates. You silly billy logical fallacy wielding size queens should learn about the subjects you say prove your stance. The answer as to why huge men used to suck at boxing is super simple and it just happened once again right in front of your silly faces. Boxing didn't always have time limits, boxing did not have weight divisions, boxing was dominated this entire period by incredibly average sized men ranging from the 150s to the low 200s. The sweet spot for power vs stamina in the size of human beings is the average range, it is the average range because those are the genes that survive. Duh. So for all the people who say but give him five minutes with the smaller Burns or Dempsey or Marciano and see if they make it sorts, dude, 3k years, it did not pay off once. You're simply wrong and the probabilities heavily favor the 175-ish-er over the super heavy. So, yeah Tommy Burns in any limitless definitely just beats the **** out of Valuev who isn't even a special giant. Put his ass in the era of giant slaying and he gets slaughtered, for sure. Not so sure in the 15s, those 3 extra were breakers for a lot of men. Over 12 just isn't long enough for Burns to tire the homie out. As they brought in time limits, which made events more schedule-able, smaller men lost a favoritism in the rules so weight divisions were created to offset the relatively modern power favoritism.