Would this Site Be More Exciting in Another Era?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

We don't live in the best boxing era, but of course, what is the best boxing era? That is up for debate.

However, I wonder how posters would love to time travel to another era.

Even more interesting, what would those from previous generations be posting on here?

I think those from the 1940s and before would be mainly praising Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Jack Johnson with little regard for the lighter weights.

In the 1950s, they'd be talking up Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and then onto Floyd Patterson.

In the 1960s, I think a lot would be going on. Although the focus would still be on heavyweights, I think the legacies of Willie Pep and Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta would definitely be getting more attention, along with Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier.

In the 1970s, definitely the heavyweights would get plenty of attention, but the featherweights would get their share as would a lightweight Roberto Duran and a welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns.

But if you could go back to any era, what do you think you would be commenting about? Given the current situation, where heavyweights don't get a lot of noise, do you think you would be more focused on them or the lighter weights?

[Pigeons]

Ali fought 29 times in the '60s and 30 times in the '70s.

[FlatLine]

There's lots of reasons but one of them is maybe because of the over-saturation through the internet, so now we have instant fights viewable online, we have the ability to stream fight live, we have regular interviews with fighters, there's so much accessible material

Back in the 80s, I'd have to order fights on video tapes (some of the kids here might not even know what they are). You'd wait 3 weeks until they arrived, and then watch a really poor copy of the fight but you never really complained - it was the expectation. We're talking 240p quality, picture jumping up and down at times.

A lot of fights you didn't even watch, you just heard them on radio.

It was a different time, the excitement was partly due to the fact that boxing (and all sports) weren't easily accessible as it is now. Sometimes you didn't know the result of a fight until days later when you caught a radio show that mentioned it. Times have seriously changed and we're now able to have instant info about everything, which sort of takes away from the anticipation and excitement that you had back then.

FYI this is a video cassette, it's like the old school storage medium for video:

[Tony Trick-Pony]

There's lots of reasons but one of them is maybe because of the over-saturation through the internet, so now we have instant fights viewable online, we have the ability to stream fight live, we have regular interviews with fighters, there's so much accessible material

Back in the 80s, I'd have to order fights on video tapes (some of the kids here might not even know what they are). You'd wait 3 weeks until they arrived, and then watch a really poor copy of the fight but you never really complained - it was the expectation. We're talking 240p quality, picture jumping up and down at times.

A lot of fights you didn't even watch, you just heard them on radio.

It was a different time, the excitement was partly due to the fact that boxing (and all sports) weren't easily accessible as it is now. Sometimes you didn't know the result of a fight until days later when you caught a radio show that mentioned it. Times have seriously changed and we're now able to have instant info about everything, which sort of takes away from the anticipation and excitement that you had back then.

FYI this is a video cassette, it's like the old school storage medium for video:

Yes, the medium has definitely changed. Nowadays, you still have the knowledge that if you don't see a big fight, it will be up on youtube shortly and highlights will be out there the same night.

The anticipation in the old days must have been insane.