Not necessarily better skills but better experience, hunger, toughness and believe it or not, better stamina.
Back in the day guys were having over 200 fights and fights could go over 20 rounds, after the fight they were not saying "thank you al Haymon" they were saying "WHO NEXT?" You beat me tonight, lets fight again next week.
To know boxing you really have to know the history. My username for instance was a guy that fought another guy 20 times. They fought 20 times coz they were the best.
Do people here even know who guys like Nonpareil Jack Dempsey or Joe Gans were? I hope so, that's how you show true respect to the sport. For instance Gans was the first black world champion and you can find footage of him, he used the shoulder roll, amazing counter puncher and fought like a beast, he would have competed with the best of today and would probably be champion.
Back in the day guys were having over 200 fights and fights could go over 20 rounds, after the fight they were not saying "thank you al Haymon" they were saying "WHO NEXT?" You beat me tonight, lets fight again next week.
To know boxing you really have to know the history. My username for instance was a guy that fought another guy 20 times. They fought 20 times coz they were the best.
Do people here even know who guys like Nonpareil Jack Dempsey or Joe Gans were? I hope so, that's how you show true respect to the sport. For instance Gans was the first black world champion and you can find footage of him, he used the shoulder roll, amazing counter puncher and fought like a beast, he would have competed with the best of today and would probably be champion.
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