Why should Boxing be different from almost every other sport?

[D4thincarnation]

Throughout sport, the athlete are breaking new ground improving all the time playing at a higher standard but for some reason boxing is not.

Over the last 100 years the 100m sprint times have tumbled, people have lifted far more, jumped longer and higher, swam faster.

Physically man has improved, obviously this is down to advancements in modern training and nutrition.

But it seem like sacrilege to even thing along these lines in boxing. Why don't we think that today's boxers hit harder, faster and take better shot.

Why has the advancements that other sports have made are not happening in boxing. Perhaps they are happening but we just don't like to accept it.

It not only the physical advancements that we have witnessed, football has probably has it greatest player now in Lionel Messi with Ronaldo not too far behind, with Barcelona considered the greatest ever side. Snooker and darts are playing at a standard far above past generations. Men's tennis has 3 of the greatest players ever to pick up a racket playing now.

There are about 5 times as many people on the planet now that there was 100 years ago, more countries involved in boxing now, more boxing clubs, so why is it so hard to accept that are sport is at its top of its game.


If you don't believe this then explain what makes boxing different from almost every other major sport?

[SCtrojansbaby]

Fighters always sound better when being talked about by some dude from your barbershop rather than actually watching them.

[bojangles1987]

Boxing is the only sport where outside of heavyweight, fighters aren't getting bigger. Middleweights are the same size now that they were 50 years ago.

[istmeno]

Boxing cannot be compared to other sports simply by its nature. games like snooker and darts have improved because of superior technology in the fabrication of the tools. no more hickory sticks as pool cues. or crude feather tailed darts. tennis equipment has also improved greatly and the players today are bigger and stronger than before based on improvement in training techniques. boxing has fundamentally remained the same. a left hook is a left hook. and bigger stronger faster does not apply to boxing, because at the end of the day, 147 lbs in 1950s is 147 lbs today.

[rambov]

TS is right except in the case of the klits where they get dominated by every previous HW

[D4thincarnation]

Boxing is the only sport where outside of heavyweight, fighters aren't getting bigger. Middleweights are the same size now that they were 50 years ago.

They are getting bigger, down to the weigh in being 36 hours before the fight and, cutting methods and fluid and nutrients replacement after the weigh in.

But Messi is not exactly a giant.

[TR vs. GB]

Fighters always sound better when being talked about by some dude from your barbershop rather than actually watching them.

Boxing is hard to explain. All I have to say really is look at a fighter like Timothy Bradley he is literally one of the most ripped up men I have seen and I do not just choose him just bc how ripped he is but he is on a vegan diet and works on the most modern excersises and follows the strictest diet known to nutritionists. You can use Bernard Hopkins also for example and the longevity he is experiencing in the game because of proper diet and staying in the gym even when he does not have a fight coming up.

[Casual_Fan]

Throughout sport, the athlete are breaking new ground improving all the time playing at a higher standard but for some reason boxing is not.

Over the last 100 years the 100m sprint times have tumbled, people have lifted far more, jumped longer and higher, swam faster.

Physically man has improved, obviously this is down to advancements in modern training and nutrition.

But it seem like sacrilege to even thing along these lines in boxing. Why don't we think that today's boxers hit harder, faster and take better shot.

Why has the advancements that other sports have made are not happening in boxing. Perhaps they are happening but we just don't like to accept it.

It not only the physical advancements that we have witnessed, football has probably has it greatest player now in Lionel Messi with Ronaldo not too far behind, with Barcelona considered the greatest ever side. Snooker and darts are playing at a standard far above past generations. Men's tennis has 3 of the greatest players ever to pick up a racket playing now.

There are about 5 times as many people on the planet now that there was 100 years ago, more countries involved in boxing now, more boxing clubs, so why is it so hard to accept that are sport is at its top of its game.


If you don't believe this then explain what makes boxing different from almost every other major sport?

I agree with your assessment.

Science has made today's athletes superior in almost every athletic field. Boxers probably are not the exception.

However, when talking about fighters from different eras, that also has to be taken in consideration. So when someone compares fighters from different eras, I assume similar training, nutrition, and sport science knowledge.

So in my mind it's not as easy as saying: today's fighters are physically stronger, faster, etc. Since yesterdays fighters would also be stronger and faster, given similar knowledge and advancements.


My 2 cents.

[D4thincarnation]

Boxing cannot be compared to other sports simply by its nature. games like snooker and darts have improved because of superior technology in the fabrication of the tools. no more hickory sticks as pool cues. or crude feather tailed darts. tennis equipment has also improved greatly and the players today are bigger and stronger than before based on improvement in training techniques. boxing has fundamentally remained the same. a left hook is a left hook. and bigger stronger faster does not apply to boxing, because at the end of the day, 147 lbs in 1950s is 147 lbs today.

The Snooker cue has not change, and dart has had some changes with materials but so has the boxing glove.

Boxer fight less, today making room for improvements in tactics and preparations, getting fighters to peak on fight night.

[Box"K"ing]

80-90s BABY!!!


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