Old School Boxers Physique's Compared To Current Fighters Physique's.

[DarkTerror88]

Imagine the great fighters from back whenever in todays ranks with proper diet and training ....that would be amazing

Guys like Joe Louis and SRR would be total monsters!

[SBleeder]

Imagine the great fighters from back whenever in todays ranks with proper diet and training ....that would be amazing

Fighters from the past generally trained a lot harder than modern fighters. And I doubt the old great fighters ate poorly.

[nomadman]

Whilst I agree that there are certainly more impressive physiques in boxing nowadays than in the past (outside of the heavies of course) I don't think it's fair to compare fighters simply posing for a photo with fighters who've had to boil down for a weigh-in and are most likely dehydrated and at a dangerously low bodyfat percentage. Of course those guys are going to look more ripped.

[nomadman]

Off topic, but I always get a chuckle out of the awkward looking poses those old-school fighters put on, like they've just been caught in the middle of a power walk.

[frankenfrank]

considering they didn't lift weights back then he must have been a strong SOB to have all that natural muscle.

Why do you think they didn't ? or lifted something else ? or did very similar training to lifting weights ?

Shit , I forgot , the human race devolved since then :hey:

[Suckmedry]

Off topic, but I always get a chuckle out of the awkward looking poses those old-school fighters put on, like they've just been caught in the middle of a power walk.

Lol, yeah.

[StarshipTrooper]

Off topic, but I always get a chuckle out of the awkward looking poses those old-school fighters put on, like they've just been caught in the middle of a power walk.

Football players back then used to pose in the huckabuck.

Poet

[StarshipTrooper]

Why do you think they didn't ? or lifted something else ? or did very similar training to lifting weights ?

Shit , I forgot , the human race devolved since then :hey:

Maybe because no boxing trainer worth his salt would have had his fighter lifting? Weights were still verboten for fighters well into the 1990s. Why? Because weights **** your reflexes and reflexes are far more important to a fighter than mere muscle mass.

Poet

[BennyST]

There are so many factors in play here. The type of fighter, genetics, photo's (ie. full HD colour vs old grainy black and white), weight and weigh in and exercises.

Weigh ins are a big one. Guys today come in trimmed down to the max to get to their smallest weight and so have next to no body fat while the other guys were at their natural fight weight. Their weigh in photos are the same physique they go to the ring in. Check out many guys at the weigh in compared to when they fight. They look very different. They don't pose also like in the Marg/Mosley photo. It's not as media driven.

It's impossible to know when those photos were taken. Was it during fight time or were they in between fights?

http://www.boxing-memorabilia.com/toney.htm

Here is Joe Gans posing properly. Looks as ripped as any other lightweight today. Actually more ripped than most.
http://www.harrygreb.com/allentownjoegans.html

It's completely dependent on who you're looking at too. You've picked a few boxers from different weight classes that look like that. I could just as easily go find more that were ripped as hell and find a bunch of top champs today that look the same as those guys.

One of the greatest champs of our era. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1335797.ece

Some others:

Ricky Hatton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxi...es/2943122.stm

Ivan Calderon
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...w=1346&bih=748

[BennyST]

More of today and some yesterday boxers:
Oscar De La Hoya
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...w=1346&bih=748

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...1t:429,r:4,s:0

Castillo
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...w=1346&bih=748

Morales
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...1t:429,r:7,s:0