Who are some Old Timers you think wouldn't have boxed if they were born in today's era?

Johnson.

 

Braddock would never come back to the ring.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson perhaps?

 

Gene Tunney maybe.

 

Why do you think that?

 

Jews don't really box anymore, so pehaps Benny Leonard would be a Wall Street wizard today, rather than a boxer?

 

Frank Moran.

Too much money to be made in dentistry nowadays

 

Very smart man who's also athletic, and would probably be even taller/larger today. Given how fringe a sport boxing is in general, he's unlikely to encounter it. Much more likely to go to college -- maybe on an athletic scholarship -- and go into a white collar profession.

 

JJ would probably have a porn empire, due to his stature he could be like a black Ron Jeremy

 

Most HW North Americans. I feel most of the avenues these people took into boxing no longer exist.

Part of why a Wilder emerged is that hitting crazy hard is the single most obvious boxing trait to identifty. One thats useful for just combat sports and nothing else.

 

Who knows maybe some would have gone into other sports with the opportunities today?

 

Good call.

He could have made money doing all kinds of things in a later era.

 

Fair point, there's not a gym around me in 100 miles.