"You said the champions have gotten bigger and I showed you otherwise"
No you haven't. You mentioned a few smaller/lighter champions, that doesn't negate an established general trend (Louis-Liston-Ali-Holmes-Bowe-Lewis-K2-Fury). Especially as the smaller champs generally lost to the best big men they fought. All of these fighters were bigger than average in their day among the best, if not the very biggest.
Heavyweights have got bigger, more athletic, more skilled and more stylistically diverse but less black/American. Which is the problem for many. As well as the fact that people generally have nostalgia for their younger days, when they were more vigorous.
You made no argument about southpaws, you merely asserted than ye old timey HW's like Joe Louis or Ali or whoever could beat elite modern southpaws with their super skills, when there is much evidence against that claim and little to no for. Tell me which facts are wrong in this piece and explain why:
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