Defining Greatness!

[rambov]

Football players did it, Baseball players did it
Runners did it
Why can't boxers?

[Poet682006]

Football players did it, Baseball players did it
Runners did it
Why can't boxers?

Steroids don't count. If you look at the non-juicing positions in the NFL, running backs, recievers, defensive backs, they aren't any bigger or faster than they were 20 or 30 years ago. As for the other positions, the ones who aren't on roids lift weights like crazy: Something that is taboo for fighters.

Poet

[Easton Assassin]

Football players did it, Baseball players did it
Runners did it
Why can't boxers?

I might be biased, but i put Boxing in a whole other catagory than any other sport. Boxing is the only sport that the object is to incapacitate the opponent as brutally as possible. No quarter asked for and none given. all other sports stop when somone gets hurt, whereas in boxing that is the point where the action intensifies.

As far as evolving goes. A middleweight is still a middleweight. The only weightclass that applies to would be heaveyweight where the limit has skyrocketed. Marciano fought mostly at 190, by todays standards that wouldn't even make the Heaveyweight division.

SRR would dominate all but a very few of any eras best at middleweight. His speed,style,chin, and power would wreaK havoc against anyone you could name! So no, evolution is not a factor. If anything, todays fighters are more pampered than at any other point in the history of the sport. Imagine a modern fighter tring to go 15 rounds at the pace the old guys set- it ***ing crazy!

[Wiley Hyena]

hear..hear

[southpawWiNKy]

Life is nothing more than a series of choices and consequences produced by those choices. If you have lived long enough to be posting on this board you should already know this well. When faced with a choice it is human nature to choose in a fashion that seems in our own best self interest, but there are times when doing so would cause great harm to others. This is when the irony of life begins to show itself for the ugly little bastard it really is. In those instances we define ourselves as...

...good **** man