Why are boxing fans so obsessed with fighters from the past?

[junior gong]

Yeah. But guys like jack johnson, sonny liston ... Were not half as good as people claim they were

How do you know this? You have just assumed this and its nonsense.

[Luilun]

Most of the fighter from the 30's to the 70's are way overrated by boxing fans. I recently watched allot of footage of past fighters and those guys are mediocare at best compared to fighters of todays era.

Does every sport have so many grumpy old fans who cant appreciate the present?

Because it was the days of the best fighting the best not 5 year ducks or steroid accusations or crying over glove use

[f15bone]

We as human beings have an inherent soft spot for nostalgia...

We love are first cars, girlfriend, house ect...ect...

[SharpShooter3.0]

you guys are such scrubs

this video actually proves Liston was just average

[HanzGruber]

I agree. Robert Duran beat srl but he didn't do much else besides fight 70 times until he was 50. Srl is overrated too

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Boils down to two types:

1. Supercasuals. Like the guy who saw my boxing bag in college and started telling me how Ali was his idol and a huge inspiration in his life and had Ali quotes on his phone but had never actually watched an entire Ali fight. He just loved '60s/'70s culture and that foot shuffling move and the way Ali trashtalked. Same guys who make threads asking how Bruce Lee would fair against Manny Pacquaio and think "Rocky" was the true story of Marciano. They don't mean harm they just generally have no interest in combat.

2. Agenda ****s: The day a foreign fighter becomes champion they mutually agree to declare a division "dead and forgotten". This requires them to bow at the altar of great and questionable historical fighters alike in order to portray boxing as a line chart that fell off a cliff in 2000 because guys from their town stopped winning. Sometimes a saviour comes along (like Wilder) and thousands of them come out of the woodwork pretending they've been watching the division for the past 30 years and "See something special in this kid". When he loses they throw a verbal smoke grenade and go back to watching blotchy film reels of guys backhand jabbing in towel diapers.

Floyd would embarrass most historical guys around his weight and be back to talking to Lampley about the Patriots during rounds. Wlad would have podunk barroom brawlers like Frazier tripping over their own feet and quitting after 2 rounds.

[billeau2]

Most of the fighter from the 30's to the 70's are way overrated by boxing fans. I recently watched allot of footage of past fighters and those guys are mediocare at best compared to fighters of todays era.

Does every sport have so many grumpy old fans who cant appreciate the present?

I am going to be a bit of a hypocrite (regarding the spelling) and point out that the generalized statement you make, the ******ed spelling and the conclusions you draw, show that with Down's syndrome as Ive told Elroy, more chromesomes does not= better.

[billeau2]

Is he one of those old grumpy boxing fans?

he is my ******ed son. The ******** seemed to be a success and just as the tiolet was flushed there was a peep. Its cool though plenty of room in his mom's basement and replacing the Klitschko poster he dry humps constantly is a drag, but what can you do?

[MurkaMan]

Wow out of all the people to prove past fighters are overrated you choose Leonard, you sir are an idiot.

Notice I easily proved it. All u did was call me an idiot because u dont want me to say what it really is. When Floyd was a young fighter everyone said he was the next SRL, so they projected everything SRL did onto Floyd.

SRL used to retire to duck Hagler and used to fight everyone at the right time. Floyd can go and fight GGG right now and everyone will lie and say its a cherrypick. When he retired everyone lied and said he did it to duck a bunch of easy opponents. Came back and fought guys bigger, faster, and closer to their prime to guys like Margarita.

They got all that mess from SRL

[MurkaMan]

Exactly. We could ask him why is he so "obsessed" with the fighters of today??? Special fighters come few and far in between, nomatter the era in which they fight. These so called boxing ******s today think that Roy Jones and Floyd Mayweather are boxing gods. They think that GGG would beat Leonard, Toney, Nunn, Hagler, Monzon. Smh. What they do not realize is that fighters of yesteryear fought with a different type fire and passion of fighters today. They were simply tougher, etc. Fighters today are true divas and there is a handful who are really great fighters.

Yea and fighters of today, like Floyd, were pure perfection. 30 vs 15 do the math u lying dummy!