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I’m not sure about all that though. The thing with Fury is that he is nearly Valuev’s height, and has the style of a lighter weight fighter instead of a sloth like Valuev.
HW’s back then weighed, what? 180-215lbs with same day weigh in? That’s a cruiserweight nowadays (fight night weight). Top height was like 6’3”. Eventually a HW era comes to end and starts a new era of bigger, taller, more athletic HW’s who can move around like Ali. You don’t see 5’10”- 6’1” boxers at HW too often anymore. And if they are, they are no match for these giants. Wladimir, Vitali, Lewis all ruled HW at one point and showed what a bigger man with skills can do. I think that Lewis moved a bit slow. But Vitali and Wlad, I feel were the first signs of boxing about to have bigger, more agile, taller, skilled HW’s.
Fans don’t seem realize that boxing weight classes always goes through an upgrade of fighters in size, height and skill level for their height.
I’ve seen you discuss NBA a lot so i’m gonna mention a topic that you are very familiar with: NBA players of the 80s-90s are better than NBA players of today. But how? You now have bigger, taller, more athletic players. Yes I know they are pssy now with the foul drawing by flopping and not even able to play tight D on eachother because then a whistle be blown. But they can not be compared to each other, it’s unfair. The same can be said about boxing. A lot of fans like talking about how boxers were better back then and they could beat HW’s from now. You’re a Laker fan if i’m not mistaken, so imagine someone making an argument to you that Jerry West would be too much for Kobe Bryant? That would be pretty silly. You’d think they’re high or drunk. That’s what I see when I read or hear someone talk about how fighters of several decades ago would beat today’s top fighters.
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