Boxing Has Evolved, Fighters Are Better Today

[Richard Wadd]

fighters of the past can't hang with today. it's evolution baby!

Fighters before can't compete with the great technical skills of today, brought upon by the continous growth of great teaching handed down through generations of the squared circle.

We see not only a continued improvement in stamina, but in subtle skills like in-fighting and ring cutting.

A lumbering slow-poke plodder like JCC or a wild brawler like Duran could not compete with the technical genius and marvelous footwork of someone like Amir Khan. A midget like qawi couldn't compete with the marvelous physical and technical skills of a Jean Pascal

Look at this improvement! You guys are just nostalgic, xenaphobic, and biased!

1981 Light Heavyweights

Dwight Braxton, Champion

1.Michael Spinks
2.Matthew Saad Muhammad
3.Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
4.Jerry Martin
5.Carlos DeLeon
6.Marvin Camel
7.Murray Sutherland
8.Jerry Celestine
9.James Scott
10.Marvin Johnson

Today:

Champion: Adonis Stevenson

1 Bernard Hopkins
2 Sergey Kovalev
3 Jean Pascal
4 Beibut Shumenov
5 Juergen Braehmer
6 Chad Dawson
7 Tavoris Cloud
8 Nathan Cleverly
9 Isaac Chilemba
10 Eleider Alvarez

1991 Heavyweights
1.Evander Holyfield
2.Mike Tyson
3.Rid**** Bowe
4.Razor Ruddock
5.Ray Mercer
6.George Foreman
7.Tim Witherspoon
8.Tony Tucker
9.Lennox Lewis
10.Michael Moorer

Today:

Champion: Wladimir Klitschko

1. Kubrat Pulev
2. Alexander Povetkin
3. Bermane Stiverne
4 Tyson Fury
5 Robert Helenius
6 Chris Arreola
7 Vyacheslav Glazkov
8 Tomasz Adamek
9 Deontay Wilder
10 Bryant Jennings

1992 Middleweights

1.Julian Jackson
2.James Toney
3.Reggie Johnson
4.Roy Jones Jr.
5.Mike McCallum
6.Sumbu Kalambay
7.Gerald McClellan
8.Lamar Parks
9.Bernard Hopkins
10.Thomas Tate

Today

Champion: Sergio Martinez

1 Gennady Golovkin
2 Felix Sturm
3 Daniel Geale
4 Peter Quillin
5 Matthew Macklin
6 Martin Murray
7 Marco Antonio Rubio
8 Curtis Stevens
9 Hassan N'Dam
10 Billy Joe Saunders

1993 P4P
1.Pernell Whitaker
2.Julio Cesar Chavez
3.James Toney
4.Michael Carbajal
5.Orlando Canizales
6.Evander Holyfield
7.Ricardo Lopez
8.Roy Jones Jr.
9.Kennedy McKinney
10.Yuri Arbachakov



2001 P4P

1.Shane Mosley
2.Bernard Hopkins
3.Roy Jones Jr.
4.Marco Antonio Barrera
5.Floyd Mayweather Jr.
6.Felix Trinidad
7.Oscar De La Hoya
8.Ricardo Lopez
9.Kostya Tszyu
10.Erik Morales

Today:

1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Andre Ward
3. Tim Bradley
4. Wald Klitschko
5. Sergio Martinez
6. Juan Manuel Marquez
7. Manny Pacquiao
8. Guillermo Rigondeaux
9. Saul Alvarez
10 Carl Froch

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

fighters of the past can't hang with today. it's evolution baby!

Fighters before can't compete with the great technical skills of today, brought upon by the continous growth of great teaching handed down through generations of the squared circle.

We see not only a continued improvement in stamina, but in subtle skills like in-fighting and ring cutting.

A lumbering slow-poke plodder like JCC or a wild brawler like Duran could not compete with the technical genius and marvelous footwork of someone like Amir Khan. A midget like qawi couldn't compete with the marvelous physical and technical skills of a Jean Pascal

Look at this improvement! You guys are just nostalgic and biased!

This is a joke thread, yes?

[Richard Wadd]

This is a joke thread, yes?

Nique was nasty. I love his dunks on the celtics. hakeem was sick too.

[Public_Enemy]

I'm taking the '91 heavys and the '92 middleweights easily over the current fighters in those divisions.

[toshmurph]

I'm getting pretty sick of the trolling and idiocy on NSB these days!! There's only a handful of good posters left!

[dan_cov]

Whilst he is taking the p1ss I thought it was a good post.

It certainly shows that boxing hasn't evolved at all and todays fighters are inferior overall.

I'd actually like to see this but with more/all the divisions.

I mean look at the HWs outside of Wlad I don't think any of the current fighters are beating any of the 91 top 10
In fact I think the Middleweights are even weaker in comparison.

[Luilun]

Name One welter weight today including Mayweather that can beat Tommy Hearns, Ray Leonard or Roberto Duran, Name one Jr Welter who can beat Aron Pryor. You don't know crap every ERA has good and bad fighter ask your self this question why did fighters of the past never had any problems going 15 rounds but fighters of today use conditioning coaches steroids and they still have trouble doing 12 rounds. There are only a few who can fight 15 rounds today

[Loque-san]

Whilst he is taking the p1ss I thought it was a good post.

It certainly shows that boxing hasn't evolved at all and todays fighters are inferior overall.

I'd actually like to see this but with more/all the divisions.

I mean look at the HWs outside of Wlad I don't think any of the current fighters are beating any of the 91 top 10
In fact I think the Middleweights are even weaker in comparison.

The difference between the 1992 middleweight division and today's division is epic. Sergio and GGG would barely be Top 10.
And you can add Michael Nunn who moved up to 168 in 1992.

[ßringer]

The fact that you label Duran a wild brawler and Chavez a slow plodder suggests that your brain is devolving.

[phatcatboxing]

hilarious joke thread. as soon as you mentioned amir "the bolton ****er" khan it became all too clear that this was a not-so elaborate ruse.

having said that it does bring to light how far the standards have dropped today, with each division comparison more depressing than the last.