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Let's face it, the older boxers simply didn't have the training skills, nor the nutritional information, to compete in today's sport.
Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Foster, Duran, Joe Louis, Archie Moore, and their ilk came from a society that started smoking at age 12 and wouldn't know a nutritional supplement from a caffiene pill. They didn't have a team of corporate personal trainers, they had Mickey and a bucket boy. We're talking about 50 situps, 15 minutes of jump rope, and a couple of shots of whiskey to get the blood boiling before a fight. This was an era where "women were bad for legs," ok?? It's not even the same sport.
So get over it old timers. We all love your old warriors. They had heart and "grit". They were common folk taken to arms, salt of the earth, people of the land....You know?....morons. And, I mean that in the sense that they had absolutely no knowledge of muscle twitch, heart quiver, electrolytes, and all the substances and technicalities that go into a full damn six pack of ABS (you don't see pictures of one damn fighter in the 60s or before with a six pack).
When the premier articulate spokesman of our boxing age and era, the poet laureat of boxing himself, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., says he was greater than Ali, it's the truth. Consider THAT for one moment.
There is no way that old timers could compete with the greats of the modern age. We can go to Mars. You felt good to be able to cross the county line without spending the night at a motel.
So, we have to consider the greats of the modern age as the absolute greatest of all times. Clearly, one of the greats of OUR age is the GOAT. Sugar Ray Robinson is long gone............now overrated and consigned to history as possibly the greatest of a bygone age, but definitely of a bygone age. An age where the age 30 was a death sentence.
That brings us to Calzaghe, Lennox, Klitschko, and Floyd. Make your choice for GOAT and WELCOME TO THE MODERN AGE.
Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Foster, Duran, Joe Louis, Archie Moore, and their ilk came from a society that started smoking at age 12 and wouldn't know a nutritional supplement from a caffiene pill. They didn't have a team of corporate personal trainers, they had Mickey and a bucket boy. We're talking about 50 situps, 15 minutes of jump rope, and a couple of shots of whiskey to get the blood boiling before a fight. This was an era where "women were bad for legs," ok?? It's not even the same sport.
So get over it old timers. We all love your old warriors. They had heart and "grit". They were common folk taken to arms, salt of the earth, people of the land....You know?....morons. And, I mean that in the sense that they had absolutely no knowledge of muscle twitch, heart quiver, electrolytes, and all the substances and technicalities that go into a full damn six pack of ABS (you don't see pictures of one damn fighter in the 60s or before with a six pack).
When the premier articulate spokesman of our boxing age and era, the poet laureat of boxing himself, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., says he was greater than Ali, it's the truth. Consider THAT for one moment.
There is no way that old timers could compete with the greats of the modern age. We can go to Mars. You felt good to be able to cross the county line without spending the night at a motel.
So, we have to consider the greats of the modern age as the absolute greatest of all times. Clearly, one of the greats of OUR age is the GOAT. Sugar Ray Robinson is long gone............now overrated and consigned to history as possibly the greatest of a bygone age, but definitely of a bygone age. An age where the age 30 was a death sentence.
That brings us to Calzaghe, Lennox, Klitschko, and Floyd. Make your choice for GOAT and WELCOME TO THE MODERN AGE.
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