If boxing scene was around in the 1950's

[The Gambler1981]

The conspiracy theories would be crazy due to the presence of figures like Jim Norris, Frankie Carbo & Blinky Palermo.

Well it is not exactly a conspiracy theory when known crimnal/murderers are running the show.

That is pretty much an explanation as to why things were ****ed up.

It is funny when people bring up the good old days of boxing though.

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Well it is not exactly a conspiracy theory when known crimnal/murderers are running the show.

That is pretty much an explanation as to why things were ****ed up.

It is funny when people bring up the good old days of boxing though.

They'd probably be brought up in like every fight though.

People would probably say LaMotta was tanking it in the last 3 rounds of the 6th Robinson fight when he was getting treated as a human pinata.

"Oh, Fullmer was just faking that knockout when Ray hit him".

[The Gambler1981]

They'd probably be brought up in like every fight though.

People would probably say LaMotta was tanking it in the last 3 rounds of the 6th Robinson fight when he was getting treated as a human pinata.

"Oh, Fullmer was just faking that knockout when Ray hit him".

Still though to me a conspiracy theory involves some kind of craziness with those sort of men in charge what would you put past them doing.

It is like athletes in PEDs I expect some to try and cheat, I expect mobsters to be criminals.


People would say all kinds of crazy **** though, it would be just like now except more racist since that was more acceptable back then.

[-Kev-]

Fighters wouldn't get any credit.

When you give boxing fans as much right to express their opinions as they do now, there would have been no ATG's, or like very very few. Everyone has an opinion on certain fighters nowadays. Back then I wasn't around but I can only imagine boxing fans only read newspapers and listened to radios and just appreciated the boxers that the media was feeding them. Now we get all technical, we have Boxrec, we can study resumes, we can see a padded record when there is one, we see the fighters with losing records being fed to fighters to make them look better. We boxing fans just talk so much **** now because we have too much technology and we can't be fooled anymore. That's why ATG's will be very rare and will become more and more rare as the decades go by. Boxing fans will get more bitchy about who's the real deal and who's not. Back then you had no choice but to praise the fighters the media was giving you. Again, i'm young and I was not around in those years but I am using my common sense and knowledge of the sport now, so if i'm wrong then it's whatever but that's how I see it.

[Flomo Tard]

black posters would whine about how the whiteboys keep getting title shots in front of blacks who deserve it more

Back then, black people couldn't even sit at the front of the buses or eat at white only restaurants.

If poker forums were around back then, black people wouldn't even be allowed to start threads. They can respond but they can't start. Sad.

Also, back then, Sugar Ray Robinson would be treated like fellow Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao. Everyone would do a Mayweather by trying to tarnish his legacy out of sheer jealousy.

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People would hate Sugar Ray Robinson for his negotiating demands and prima donna attitude.

Sound familiar?

[The Gambler1981]

People would hate Sugar Ray Robinson for his negotiating demands and prima donna attitude.

Sound familiar?

Or for fighting the guys out there that made him the most money (LaMotta) as opposed to a tougher challenge that would not bring him much in return (Burley).

That sounds familar also~

[The Gambler1981]

Or Ali when he started calling himself the greatest~ I am sure the fans of boxingscene would have loved that also.

"Man Ali can't lace Louis or Dempsey's boots, he is just a mouth who has no toughness at all he has no right to call himself the greatest"

Random dude~