Too many advances in modern sport training and nutrition have rocked athleticism. If you check the athletic olympic records at wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.27s_records ) all records, but one, have been set from 1980 onwards.
To think boxing as a sport, and boxers as athletes, have not improved with time would require some argument personally I have not considered.
Maybe if Ali was born today, with today's training methods and nutrition, he would be #1. Maybe not.
But comparing old timers to fighters from around the 80's till now is not fair to the athletes of old, nor to boxing. It would be as saying boxing has stood still while athletic ability in other sports flourished.
Feel free to disagree.
The fighters are just better athletes now thats it. They had more knowledge about fighting back in the day.
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