Soviet/Eastern European heavyweights dominating 60s/70s era? Myth Busted!

[LacedUp]

Great thread.

American HW's were in shape back then.

Right now I think only Deontay Wilder and Seth Mitchell are in great shape.

The 90s batch of American HWs were the last one's to consistently be in shape.

Bryant Jennings is also in great shape.

[Welsh Jon]

The great American heavyweights of the 60's-70's were greater than their eastern bloc counterparts that much is clear.

Also it was the Cubans that would have rewritten professional boxing history more so than the Soviets.

[Weltschmerz]

It stills boils down to speculation/ fantasy fight stuff.

[Elroy1]

One great?

And yes that is the point because you amongst others have said that those boxers would have dominated had they been allowed to turn pro. Which is obviously utter nonsense.


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But this is obviously true overall (refer to my list), for all weight classes over all Olympics since 1960 (your golden era), the Eastern Bloc DID outclass the Americans..

The only speculation boils down to the specific examples you highlighted where the Americans DID beat the Soviets...

It stands to reason, if the Russians did so well without even having pro boxing and the associated developed boxing industry to rear their fighters, that had that been in place and growing since the banning od professional sport in Russia, it is VERY likely that your heroes who did win, would never have existed either.

It's really not difficult to understand.

Pretty much, for you, the Soviets would have had to win every medal at every Olympics and never once let Americans ever beat them the whole time for you to declare they were good, a ridiculous standard to hold. And THEN you would still claim they were playing basketball anyway!

Your pathetic mate!

It's unbelievable what Russia achieved over the US with only a rudimentary boxing industry, and you try to take that away with such a flimsy argument as this? GTFOOH!

How long did it take Russia to undermine you guys once restrictions were lifted? Half a century of development was superceded in about 10 years!

So much for your theory.

[LacedUp]

But this is obviously true overall (refer to my list), for all weight classes over all Olympics since 1960 (your golden era), the Eastern Bloc DID outclass the Americans..

The only speculation boils down to the specific examples you highlighted where the Americans DID beat the Soviets...

It stands to reason, if the Russians did so well without even having pro boxing and the associated developed boxing industry to rear their fighters, that had that been in place and growing since the banning od professional sport in Russia, it is VERY likely that your heroes who did win, would never have existed either.

It's really not difficult to understand.

Pretty much, for you, the Soviets would have had to win every medal at every Olympics and never once let Americans ever beat them the whole time for you to declare they were good, a ridiculous standard to hold. And THEN you would still claim they were playing basketball anyway!

Your pathetic mate!

It's unbelievable what Russia achieved over the US with only a rudimentary boxing industry, and you try to take that away with such a flimsy argument as this? GTFOOH!

How long did it take Russia to undermine you guys once restrictions were lifted? Half a century of development was superceded in about 10 years!

So much for your theory.

Dude you are clueless.

I'm not American and I've never used that theory with basketball for anything other than that guy in this thread who mentioned hockey.

You are so far entangled with race and blindness that you're still trying divert the thread topic.

[LacedUp]

It stills boils down to speculation/ fantasy fight stuff.

Not really. They did fight in the amateurs and the results were in resounding favour of the americans.