Are Today’s Fighters Better Than The Great Fighters Of The Past?

[McGoorty]

Every era has truly great fighters, even now there has been a few.
But in general fighters now ain't **** compared to the old timers.

I mean lennox followed by klitchkos!!!!! Thats goin from ****in bad to ****in worse.
And Theres been a fair few recent multi weight champs who would have never achieved that when there wasn't a a million belts per weight and the top guys in each division were actually good fighters......

And the question I always ask is;
If these bums now are such modern marvels with their science and nutrition why they strugglin with 12 rounds???? pfffft!!!
A lot of these guys could NEVER go 15 rounds

AND they didn't use big soft pillow gloves either back then.

Mate the maiority of todays fighters are gassed by the 4th, especially the HW's...... you're right we haven't seen a great HW since the early 70's,..... and note my article just an hour ago.... say's it all.

[SBleeder]

Every era has truly great fighters, even now there has been a few.
But in general fighters now ain't **** compared to the old timers.

I mean lennox followed by klitchkos!!!!! Thats goin from ****in bad to ****in worse.
And Theres been a fair few recent multi weight champs who would have never achieved that when there wasn't a a million belts per weight and the top guys in each division were actually good fighters......

And the question I always ask is;
If these bums now are such modern marvels with their science and nutrition why they strugglin with 12 rounds???? pfffft!!!
A lot of these guys could NEVER go 15 rounds

AND they didn't use big soft pillow gloves either back then.

The supposed improvements caused by all of the "modern science" jazz are supposed to be that fighters are faster, more powerful, and more "explosive". As a result, you have boxers who can bench press 300 pounds, but can't parry a jab to save their life.

[McGoorty]

The supposed improvements caused by all of the "modern science" jazz are supposed to be that fighters are faster, more powerful, and more "explosive". As a result, you have boxers who can bench press 300 pounds, but can't parry a jab to save their life.

Yeah, and some of them are so unconditioned that parrying a jab is a "life and death situation"......... true story.

[-KPB-]

The passage about Vitali Klitskco is quite interesting to me....I would have loved to see either Klit bro up against someone who was as big as them but also had decent boxing fundementals and speed...........Whenever I watch Vitali he also seems ungainly to me........if I had watched all of Vitali's career fights except the Lennox lewis fight, the watched all of Lennox Lewis fights exccept the Vitali fight.......I would have bet my house on Lennox Lewis beat Vitali.......and as history showed, he did..........Vitali's defense , IMO, is good because of his advantages at that weight...it came as no surprise to me that a fighter of similar build/quality was able to rearrange his face the way Lennox did........

[StarshipTrooper]

BTW, a little b1tch who goes by the name Ugh! hit me with red for posting this article.....got to love the little fan-bois around here that can't tolerate anyone thinking their current favorite ain't the GOAT :hahahaha9:

Poet

[Canelo Phresh]

as a boxing fan wish i was born in 1930 lol. would have lived long enought to see most great fights.

[SBleeder]

Personally, my son(s) will not be allowed to watch a live boxing match on tv until they have watched at least 100 pre-1980 fights. Family rule. And at least half of those fights must be in black and white.

[Barry Halls]

Is there any info out there as to how many registered pro-fighters there was in past eras compared to now?

[RubenSonny]

Is there any info out there as to how many registered pro-fighters there was in past eras compared to now?

Theres about 18000 pros now, I can't find the figures for past eras, I'm sure I posted a link with some figures in a while back, I'll have a look for it now.

[RubenSonny]

Today there are less than half the numbers there was of professional fighters that there was in 1955. In the 1920's there were more professional fighters licensed in New York city than there are licensed in the entire world today.

-Mike Silver

More stuff from Silver just not direct quotes:
In 1927 there were 2,000 licensed professional boxers residing in the state of New York, and that over 900 boxing shows were promoted throughout the state. In 2006 the state licensed 50 pro boxers and staged just 38 shows. Or that during the 1920ís and 1930ís approximately 8,000 ñ 10,000 professional boxers were licensed annually in the U.S., while in 2006 that figure had dropped to 2,850. And how about the fact that in 1925 a fighter had engaged in an average of 84 professional contests before fighting for the title, while in 2007 a fighter had fought an average of only 27 times before receiving a shot at a title.