Why does everyone say SRR was the best of all time

No, I am realistic on how the sport has evolved as such through time. I don't buy into the romanticism of older era's like some do and therefore do not watch the older video's with rose coloured sun glasses and oddly miss evident problems within them.

I don't even rate Floyd as top 50. We are talking head to head though and head to head straight up and not taking era's into consideration. Some people believe that the man in those video's with 0 changes would beat Floyd, this is as erroneus as it gets.

 

I cant for one minute believe that your calling Ray slow! Do you have a speed gun or something to somehow make this opinion anything other than that? old video is always decieving in the speed aspect, it always looks slow and sluggish, and unless you were there in person, which i very much doubt, I cant think for one reason why you could possibly say how SRR was slow? There just isnt anyway you can make such a point without sounding like a twat!

 

Robinson was physically incapable of Roy like speed. His genetics make it impossible.

 

Video from the 40's and 50's had less problems than video's from the 30's. It can showcase the speed very easily and it's ludicrous to say that I needed to be at the fight live to analyse his quickness, the video is crystal clear. Ray is reasonably quick, which was lightning for that era, but he's not near the speed of a Roy Jones level guy, not at all. Just watch the video and compare, his speed is not even comparable to Calzaghe for that matter, Calzaghe's hands and feet are 3x as quick and that's not a joking statement.

I'm only sounding like a twat to you because you don't want to believe what I am saying. I am here debating in a civil manner and citing what I have observed, what is the problem with that, other than me pointing out things that you don't want to hear?

 

I don't even think Robinson had two copies of the ACTN3 gene like Roy does.

 

If we're going off of straight ability and skill and not era/era resume, then Robinson is not even comparable to Jones. Rose coloured glasses prevent observation from taking this into universally agknowledged fact.

I always laugh when people claim that they are tired of modern fighters 'declining in skill'....

 

SRR may be the GOAT, but I think prime-for-prime Roy Jones beats him heads up.

Different types of athletes, and different training.

 

Whether you realise it or not.