i think it should be rather divided.. post and pre 70s
if we take the golden days of hw boxing, the ali, foreman, frazier liston era.. from the 70s and on
i really dont think the sport has evolved that much, not since then.. ffs didnt an old george foreman make a comeback and beating the lineal champ moorer at an age close to 50..
take a look at the physique, the way their body was build, they were looked like athletes, the top of the hw division had tremendous physique back then, now take a look at top ten.. they look rather fat and bulked up, peter doesnt look trimmed, chagaev, toney and the list goes on .
fuck it, the hw div more often then not, they look sloppy.. so i find it stupid to claim, that its has evolved that much.. in that era it was 15 rounds of boxing, whilr today its 10 or 12.. how does that mean evolvment..
some mentioned hearns, leonard amd duran.. ill include whitaker in that bunch, just to make a point...
that must have been the most stupid and ignorant boxing fan ever..
hearns out of his prime, and out if ideal weight still fought for championship belts around the late 80s and early 90´s..
i guy like leonard, just look at the guy fighting, do you see such talent in todays boxing..
a guy like whitaker, what a talent, people today claim pbf is p4p, rewind the tape and time, here is a pbf-version just this is a punching versiion of a defensive wizard... with a punch put put of around 800-1000 punches a fight..
and whitaker, out of prime and out of his ideal weight class, fought tha golden boy and lost a very very controversial decision.. the golden boy, who would be the product of the evolved era.. i might add, that whitaker even landed more punches..
and whitaker isnt even the brightest stars of those in the 80s..
leonard is considered greater, as is duran, who fought for titles in aprox 20 years.. that should put things into a little perspective
thsoe claiming the sport has evovled that much, are fucking retards..
as said earlier, we have a foreman at age close to 50, competing for the lineal title and won it..
hearns way out of prime and his original weight, started at 147 i believe and finishe at lhw, and stil copmpeting for titles..
we have a whitaker loosing a fight he should have won, to the product of the "evolved" generation..
the most evolved physical specimen in hw boxing history is tyson, far from today, his peak was also in the 80s..
someone mentioned rjj, well how oftern have we seen such talent..?? not that many times, but guess what, in the 80s there is a couple.. watch hearns and his technique, watch leonard.. watch whitaker, and youll se, that the 80s generation was filled with fighters, better then the ones today..