why do people automatically think fighters from old would beat modern day fighters?

[JDezi4]

Because of the variables.

For example, fighters back then didn't make as much money, which resulted in them not being baby'd like Berto, and that meant they had to win in order to make the money, so they trained like animals to be able to win their fights.

Also back than they weren't promoted as easily as they r today, which resulted in us getting less pretenderslike Jeff Lacy. This also made it so that guys like Jermaine Taylor and Kelly Pavlick, who r potentially one-hit-wonders, will be out of the picture quicker. Once they became big names, all they fought were the elite, and people trying to become elite. Rarely, if ever, would there be any "warm-up" fights against journeymen.

That's how u know the great fighters of that time were legit. Ray Robinson was a Legit p4p great, which is why he is the greatest pound for pound.

[Spray_resistant]

fair enough, theres exceptions to this, but theres this consensus that "oh well so 'n so from the 60's would wipe the floor with the bums these days" its utter crap, the sport has developed over the years and so has the level of fighter. people only chose the old timers for nostalgic reasons and it pisses me right off.

Old nostalgic ppl

[Dempsey-Roll]

Old vs New

See this is one of the reasons why I want time travelling to be possible.
I want to see how old school boxers can do against the modern day boxer.
No one would really know the outcome... but maybe a couple decades from now, they can make a boxing simulator that puts a boxer from the 70s and a boxer from the 2000s against one another and see the results.

Al though I agree that boxers of today are spoiled, having to fight only 12 rounds, but that's because of an incident that changed it.

[deuce_drop]

Well, this is IMO.

Fighters nowadays are spoiled. They fight only 12 rounds, they have technoglogy and advanced gym equipment. Most dont have much heart or desire cause the world they live in is now spoiled. The only ones who have that true fire are ones who are born and raised in hard times aka ******s. Fighters back then fought 15 tough rounds. They literally trained in blood and sweat cause in order to make money they had to win. they didnt have the advance in technology as we do or the gy equipments or even the medicines we have today. its like there were a tough sculpted rock compared to the "just rocks" of fighters today. why you think the heavyweight division is **** nowadays? people are spoiled into easier things now to make money.

uumm??? did someone just hit the nail on the head????? i think so.

that is exactly the point, things were a lot tougher in those days verses what we have today in our sports, i.e. technology, equipment, medicine, dietitians, etc. things were at a minimum in those days and they were still figuring it out.

boxers today are tough but it was a different degree of toughness back in those days. having to fight the same day as the weigh in should be proof enough of just one level of how much tougher it was back then. and not to forget the corruption was more prevalent back then because it was easier to get away with, unlike today, where it's a lot harder and more of a covert operation in corruption, unlike back in the day where it was just part of the game.

all i have to say is they fought more often, fought whoever they could when they could, and had a lot less preconditions prior to fighting, so that fights actually got made, unlike today..........