Where Is The Disconnect Between the General & Classic Forum?

The last sentance BOILERMAKER typed was the best answer on this thread.Yes of course people our getting bigger and stronger,but this dont meen a blubber ass heavy,or half inshape,or mediocre skilled heavy could beat jeffries-or louis-or rocky -dempsey-jack johnson-ali -tunney the list goes on and on.Also if in the same era tunney would prob. be 210 instad of 185,190 and also mentiond half the reseon the oldtimers were better skilled and in shape is cause they didnt fight 2 times a year but 12 to30 times.

 

George Miken....Minn. Lakers...of the late 40's ...60 years ago.

 

Overall correct, but then you have guys like Nolan Ryan. He started in the major leagues in the 1960's and he would still dominate now. His speed routinely was over 100 mph!! All but a few if any of todays pitchers bring that kind of consistant heat.

 

the bigger, stronger, faster theory does not work in boxing, simply becase unlike other sports, boxing is broken down into weight classes, a ww fighter in 1950 or 2008 still only weighs 147 lb

 

The disconnect for me lies in the fact that here, we all know each other and can argue civilly. Disputes are settled in a peaceable, adult manner.
I'm not prepared to debate with someone who has more emoticons than common sense in his posts.

As far as boxing goes, many here are very clued up regarding modern boxing. It's fallacious to assume all we know is the old timers. I do think what Sal said really is the key difference though: to general forumites, the here and now is really all that counts. To us, the past is much more fun to talk about, although contemporary boxing is discussed as well sometimes.

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I don't think there is a right and wrong in this regard by the way. I know we tend to glorify the past too much, but then again the general guys are too fond of the newer=better argument, which is not always true.

 

Obviously i cant speak for every person on both forums, but its not difficult AT ALL to see that on the general you have people (nuthuggers) that talk absolute madness to stick up for a fighter, you have guys who are fans of fighters, here we have fans of BOXING, massive difference.

This nuthugging does happen here aswell, but all you have to do is read the posts to understand that it is nowhere near as severe, on here we dont mind picking someone over our fave boxer if we see it happening like that.

Like i said, i cant speak for everyone, but by large, this is right

 

I've noticed you can be quite patronising to some of them...it makes me laugh.

 

Hey folks,

Since this is a technical discussion, I thought I'd put my question here. Does this forum block hyperlinks? Or are posts with them just referred to a moderator? I made a few yesterday, but they have not appeared. I read the FAQ, which was vague on the subject - it implied that if there wasn't appropriate buttons, then HTML was disabled. Yet HTML buttons are right here on the panel...