Was the 20s the golden era of boxing talent?

It is time for me to be that guy but I feel skeptical saying its the most talented when we can't actually view most of that talent. Certainly it is a very accomplished era but those are two different things.

 

I get your point, but the footage available of the best talent look excellent though like Tunney, Leonard, Wolgast, Canzoneri, Kid Chocolate, Loughran, Dundee, Gibbons, Norfolk, Walker, Sharkey, McLarnin. A lot of fighters who peaked around the 20s appear to have a lot of film of them in the 30s though

 

I'm pretty staggered boxing fans, and it does seem exclusive to boxing fans, never seem to ever ground the era they're speaking about in the overall theme of the era.

I mean, even your detractors will play this game with you and speak in terms of wins and losses exclusively. No one's going to come in here and simply say the 20's is an era when men loved nothing more than sniffing their own farts. It was exaggerated, it is exaggerated.

The 30s is a melancholy era, and that's why no one's favorite HW is a 30s HW champion until the end. The signal of the end of the melancholy era is beloved, nothing else. That last sentence isn't about Louis exclusively, it is about the 30s.

I'm not saying right or wrong, it's just amazing that voice seems lacking in boxing discussions. Where as, join a forum about storytelling, or weapons, or anything it seems, and talk to their history section. The times themselves matters.

The only time I sees youse jamooks talking about the atmosphere of an era is when dealing with race and it is forced on you.

Anywhere else, the propaganda of the 40s and 50s is a large part of the discussion of the figures in the 40s and 50s.
In boxing, Marciano gets more criticism for being a suspected mafia champion than he does a suspected government champion.


Like I said, I don't mean this as a criticism, I can't say if it's right or wrong, all I can say is it is impressive how differently boxing fans handle history. In a vacuum. Doesn't really matter that America has just juxtaposed the BE into a secondary position and was poised to take over as hegemony. Doesn't matter the decade prior featured a Canadian champion during the same time Canada was poised to be the economic powerhouse of the planet, while still in the BE of course. Does not matter than in that decade America had successfully usurped the most powerful empire ever seen, and it does not matter that the nation then went into a celebration kissing its own ass until it fell into a depression because it was too busy kissing its own ass to notice the house has burned down. None of that had any effect on the reporting of these men at all. Boxing history.

 

Holy… I’ve never realised... yes absolutely.