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I mean wheres Ashton Kutcher? Am I getting punk'd or something? Joe Louis? Its a joke right? 18 year old Corrie Sanders would have been the THIRD FASTEST HUMAN when Joe Louis fought. Like I can totally understand if people want to talk about greatness and accomplishments etc...but in a head 2 head? Joe Louis lived at a time when people thought a healthy diet for a fighter was 3 meals of steak, a few cigs, and a pile of ash. I mean, I dont even know who I am trying to argue against, because I dont think anyone with an IQ...not even a boxing IQ, not even a specific number, but just an IQ would think Joe Louis would beat a Klitschko. Its like laughable, itd be like putting Lebron James out there on a basketball court in the 1930's, or having Michael Vick playing football...athletes are just different now, we understand a lot more about medicine and about recovery and about nutrition.
Want to talk about boxing becoming watered down because of the NBA/NFL...how about because of WWII, or cholera, or the plague or whatever the hell those people died of. Heck, straight up poverty. You think Wlad and Vitali were working on the docks waiting for there shot? Most fighters today get taken in by a trainer or a promoter who sees their skill, pays for everything and then rips them of the rest of their career. Think of the poorest person you know whose not homeless...they probably live better than the top 1% did back then. Decent meals with fresh food, air conditioning and heat, doctors who dont think leaches are the cure for every ailment.
Hell, just look at microfracture surgery, which just became popular 20 years ago. Every athlete with major cartilidge gaps and damage would be done or fade into oblivion at a young age back then, now they go in for a safe surgery and can come back. How many athletes back then had to quit sports because of injuries that can be fixed in a few weeks today. Or how many athletes had to take months and years off for injuries that can be done overnight now. Its such a joke of an argument that any of these old timers could hang with a Klitschko. It would be a freaking massacre.
Athletes in, I dont know, every quantifiable sport have improved to the level that some middleschoolers are beating world record holders of the 30's in sports like track and field and swimming, but no...no, boxing is the one sport insulated by the effects of modern technology and improvements. Also, who would know better about nutrition than the Klitschko's who have thier doctorates in sports sciences.
So again im left completely confused how anyone could actually think Joe Louis would beat a Klitschko...I mean the guys he was fighting also were by todays standards, malnourished, improperly trained, usually cruiser or lhw's, who eithe rby the grace of god never had an injury that required serious surgery or fought through the pain or encumberant of living with that injury etc...
Look, Vitali probably wouldnt have had a boxing career if he was born in Louis's time. He had wayyy too many injuries early in his career and he probably would be lucky to be walking without a cane. So I dont see how one could say the division was harder back when Louis fought...it wasnt. It wouldnt even be a fight. I just read several people post this recently and it blew my mind.
Want to talk about boxing becoming watered down because of the NBA/NFL...how about because of WWII, or cholera, or the plague or whatever the hell those people died of. Heck, straight up poverty. You think Wlad and Vitali were working on the docks waiting for there shot? Most fighters today get taken in by a trainer or a promoter who sees their skill, pays for everything and then rips them of the rest of their career. Think of the poorest person you know whose not homeless...they probably live better than the top 1% did back then. Decent meals with fresh food, air conditioning and heat, doctors who dont think leaches are the cure for every ailment.
Hell, just look at microfracture surgery, which just became popular 20 years ago. Every athlete with major cartilidge gaps and damage would be done or fade into oblivion at a young age back then, now they go in for a safe surgery and can come back. How many athletes back then had to quit sports because of injuries that can be fixed in a few weeks today. Or how many athletes had to take months and years off for injuries that can be done overnight now. Its such a joke of an argument that any of these old timers could hang with a Klitschko. It would be a freaking massacre.
Athletes in, I dont know, every quantifiable sport have improved to the level that some middleschoolers are beating world record holders of the 30's in sports like track and field and swimming, but no...no, boxing is the one sport insulated by the effects of modern technology and improvements. Also, who would know better about nutrition than the Klitschko's who have thier doctorates in sports sciences.
So again im left completely confused how anyone could actually think Joe Louis would beat a Klitschko...I mean the guys he was fighting also were by todays standards, malnourished, improperly trained, usually cruiser or lhw's, who eithe rby the grace of god never had an injury that required serious surgery or fought through the pain or encumberant of living with that injury etc...
Look, Vitali probably wouldnt have had a boxing career if he was born in Louis's time. He had wayyy too many injuries early in his career and he probably would be lucky to be walking without a cane. So I dont see how one could say the division was harder back when Louis fought...it wasnt. It wouldnt even be a fight. I just read several people post this recently and it blew my mind.
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