Why are the fighters from the first half othe 1900s looked as Gods

[Steak]

old time fighters like Henry Armstrong? damn, they look good. I can see tons of skill there.

guys like Jimmy Wilde? hmm. no. not that impressed.

[Reggie Miller]

Henry Armstrong :thumbup:.

[Verstyle]

I hate how ppl jump on the Sugar Ray Robinson and some other ol' timers bandwagon and not have seen ever 20 of their fights.haha.

[Kelly Robinson]

we all know back then fighters use to fight 3-5 times a month (because of the need of money) and how the gloves were smaller than the ones today, but people need to stop overrating boxers from the early 1900's or older like jim jeffries and jim corbett.

in ESB, people pick those old-timers over modern day boxers .

Let's see today's boxers fight 3-5 times a month and with smaller gloves and find out how well they'll do. Pick one! But that's never going to happen. They're not going to do it like back in the day when boxing was a more dangerous sport. They have new rules now.

[MANGLER]

Fighters are always treated better over time.

[yeykax]

if you look at the names of the fighters records back in the days you will see that all or most of the top fighters faced each others and it didnt matter if it was recorded or not they really faced the best of the best and the pay was ****ty!!fighters today cherry pick their oponents and claim they are the best!!!!

[STILL DETOX]

yea they basically fought with mitts back then

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[talip bin osman]

an argument over there at "boxing history" regarding an hypothetical fight against PBF & battling nelson prompted me to do a bit of studying...

old skool fighters like BN are HOF inductees for a reason... the era they fought at were quite demanding... they were dealing not only with the high level of opposition, but the rules of the sport of boxing @ the time...

imagine BN fighting fellow HOF joe gans for 42 brutal rounds! this with 5 oz gloves and no mouthpieces! WTF?! the fight lasted for over 2 hours & was held outdoors were the temperature were a little over 100 degrees! damn it...

it was like watching the israel vasquez vs rafael marquez trilogy in just one sitting...

u cant help but be awed by these old fighters man...

but as great as they were, i enjoy watching our fighters of today more...

i can relate with them better...