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Boxing. The greatest sport and most difficult in the world.
Were it not the case we wouldn't be on the forum.
Unfortunately it's fans are also unique.
Could you imagine the fans of basketball, grid iron, basketball or any world sport making claims that it's athletes from 40, 50, 70, 80, 100 years ago could not only compete but would even be better than the athletes of today or recent times?
What would happen to them. They would be laughed out of any forum so hard and publicly ridiculed for such outrageous opinions.
But not boxing fans. Only a decade ago the majority really did hold such views and even though today the tides are turning and the world is "waking up" to the truth, there is still an alarmingly large percentage of fans who really believe such rubbish against all evidence and common sense.
The reasons are varied. Nationalism? Money? Pride? Delusion? Brainwashing?
Imo there is far too much tolerance for the "old time nutbag" in professional boxing.
Thoughts?
Were it not the case we wouldn't be on the forum.
Unfortunately it's fans are also unique.
Could you imagine the fans of basketball, grid iron, basketball or any world sport making claims that it's athletes from 40, 50, 70, 80, 100 years ago could not only compete but would even be better than the athletes of today or recent times?
What would happen to them. They would be laughed out of any forum so hard and publicly ridiculed for such outrageous opinions.
But not boxing fans. Only a decade ago the majority really did hold such views and even though today the tides are turning and the world is "waking up" to the truth, there is still an alarmingly large percentage of fans who really believe such rubbish against all evidence and common sense.
The reasons are varied. Nationalism? Money? Pride? Delusion? Brainwashing?
Imo there is far too much tolerance for the "old time nutbag" in professional boxing.
Thoughts?
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