Would modern fighters do well in older eras?

Nope. Fighters back in the day were f@%king savages! You think any of these top guys could fight 15 fights a year against tough opposition? lol! Yeah ok.

 

There are thousands of boxers from Eastern Europe and developing countries, where we have no idea, what kind of conditions they grew up in. To claim that they "by in large" had a much easier life than than those born in 1940 is a bit of a stretch. We simply don't know that.

 

. I never excluded Americans from this criticism at all, as a matter of fact it was you that first tried introduce a weak as hell and baseless nationalistic angle into all of this. Secondly, remind me which country again was banned from competing in the Olympics in the last decade for a government sponsored steroid program ? Sure as hell wasn't the us or Mexico. Your so brainwashed you think you are presenting the unbiased view it's actually quite pathetic. Go on believing your heros are the only clean tough atheletes in the world even tho they have **** all to speak for it except the most forgettable title reigns in the history of the sport

 

It's not a stretch at all if you are saying your only objection is we don't know for sure unless we poll every individual person

 

So you're dismissing the possibility that many of these boxers could have had a tough childhood - on the grounds that we haven't polled every one of them?

 

No lol. I'm well aware that there are people in this world living in extreme poverty. That doesn't mean it's not reasonable to say Iife is easier for the average person now than it was 50 years ago. Especially when talking about a relatively small group of professional prize fighters who we actually know the back grounds of

 

hahah do you really think that i believe any of those russians are clean? Of course they are on juice but so is the rest. And none of this guys is my hero. And yeah i bring up the nationalistic aspect cause it is 99% people from the us or uk that come up with that idea that fighters today are somewhat weaker then back in the day and the only reason for that is cause they dont have a english sounding name.

 

Dude my parents grew up in eastern europa people were so fukin poor a glass of Nutella was something you got as present on Christmas. And the ssr of kazhakstan must have been on a another entire level.

 

This whole debate is rather funny!

As we all know, boxing today is very different from back in the "Golden Age" (20s and 30s). But to claim that old-timers were savages, and that modern boxers are a bunch of sissies, is ridiculous. Boxing is not tennis or golf - to take up this sport and attempt to make it your livelihood, takes a special kind of courage. Today as well as 100 years ago.