Boxers who started after 1980 are ineligible for GOAT status

[ShaneMosleySr]

Any real boxing historian knows this and 1980 is an extremely generous cutoff date.

You can't compare fighters in a 17 division, 3/4 belt, promoter protected era to guys who fought 250 times, basically every other week at a time where there was one champion per weight class and eight weight classes.

In this era, guys like Sam Langford, Henry Armstrong and Ray Robinson would have been something like 12 division champions. Joe Louis would have made something like 45 consecutive heavyweight title defenses. And all of them probably would have retired undefeated.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Any real boxing historian knows this and 1980 is an extremely generous cutoff date.

You can't compare fighters in a 17 division, 3/4 belt, promoter protected era to guys who fought 250 times, basically every other week at a time where there was one champion per weight class and eight weight classes.

In this era, guys like Sam Langford, Henry Armstrong and Ray Robinson would have been something like 12 division champions. Joe Louis would have made something like 45 consecutive heavyweight title defenses. And all of them probably would have retired undefeated.

I have never been really that impressed with the fighters in the light divisions moving up in weight and winning world titles 'The game is tailor made for that kind of success' Big deal.

David Haye's jump to the heavyweight division, is an more impressive feat than anything Lomochenko has achieved etc