The way boxing is going, we might never see that type of skills again.
I am not adoring PBF here, I am just looking at the trend 10 years ago Jones, Toney and Hopkins, go back to the late 80s and you have Leonard, Hagler, Duran, Nunn, McCallum, Chavez, Pea, Nelson. And if you go farther in the past, you will find that even non elite fighters were tremendously skilled.
Most fighters nowadays have a great athletic background but they are boys in terms of the depth of their game. I mean look at the two best active fighters. Pac and JC, freaks of nature with a big heart, but... it's there to see, and we are talking about veterans of the ring here!
I am not adoring PBF here, I am just looking at the trend 10 years ago Jones, Toney and Hopkins, go back to the late 80s and you have Leonard, Hagler, Duran, Nunn, McCallum, Chavez, Pea, Nelson. And if you go farther in the past, you will find that even non elite fighters were tremendously skilled.
Most fighters nowadays have a great athletic background but they are boys in terms of the depth of their game. I mean look at the two best active fighters. Pac and JC, freaks of nature with a big heart, but... it's there to see, and we are talking about veterans of the ring here!
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