Sandy Saddler vs. Floyd Mayweather @ 130

[The Old LefHook]

- -The poor dear blessed with girlie hands can't really pop a soap bubble.

In 6oz horse hairs he'd melt against any great LW.

I see you are plagiarizing my imagery again. I have often used the soap bubble comparison. You need to find your own images and language and stop stealing mine. Billy had to chastise you once before for lifting my material. I think the guy who called you boi was onto something, boi.

[GhostofDempsey]

Lol.



Well, I compare it to every other sport and refuse to see boxing and its athletes as the only sport that haven’t made any progression. (I recall I’ve been in this discussion before, and people says boxing ain’t comparable. But I think it is.)

QueensburyRules mentions names such as Thorpe, Babe and Wilt. I follow hockey a lot and QR could also have mentioned its #1 Wayne Gretzky. But hockey has changed a lot since the 1980s, and today the 1980s version of Wayne hadn’t been allowed to dominate the way he once did. Though, he should still be ranked #1 amongst hockey players (some Soviet players are worthy arguing).

About Saddler vs Mayweather – if Saddler had been born in 1977, like Floyd, their encounter had been a different story.

Boxing fundamentals haven't changed for the better since the late 1920s/early 1930s. If anything, modern fighters have a disadvantage because they fight so infrequently. Timing, reflexes, pacing are all affected by inactivity. Are we going to say that Joe Louis and Ray Robinson were not as conditioned as today's boxers? Or weren't as smart as today's boxers? Wilder, AJ, Ruiz wouldn't last four rounds against smaller HW's who could actually box.

Robinson seen in it all in the ring. There is nothing these modern fighters could have shown him that he didn't already see. Saddler was a large FW, with exceptional power. He could handle the speed and defense of Pep, considered one of the greatest P4p fighters of all time--I can't see what Floyd shows him that he could not overcome.

Saddler had too many tricks and subtleties and could make adjustments on the fly.

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[Ben Bolt]

If anything, modern fighters have a disadvantage because they fight so infrequently. Timing, reflexes, pacing are all affected by inactivity. Are we going to say that Joe Louis and Ray Robinson were not as conditioned as today's boxers? Or weren't as smart as today's boxers?

Smart they were. Better conditioned, it’s a question mark.
Having time to rest and heal, and having enough time to practise a special tool or movement doesn’t mean inactivity.
Larry Holmes’s jab for ex. He broke his right hand in a 1976 bout, and could only train his left hand for several months. He wasn’t inactive, he trained with his left hand. Which developed into his main weapon and which brought him to the top.

I do like the Saddler vid.