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the last time i picked against SRR i was told i DKSAB & i dont want that to happen again 
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it is a ridiculous argument
those guys fought 15(+) rounds... some fighters today gas after 6 rounds
I hear more and more fighters using old-school training methods
90% young fighters do not have dietitians and conditioning coaches... many try them, and then go back to what they know best
SNAC fighters... lose to non-SNAC fighters
the main difference is not so much diet and training, it is how boxing has evolvedComment
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like I was saying...
breadman Edwards, today...
Bread’s Response: Don’t listen to that garbage!
Here is the thing. Color and HD TV will make today’s fighter looked enhanced. Sports Science and Nutrition will make today’s fighter look bigger and more defined. Fighters today seem to have more physicality. They walk around bigger. I admit that.
But boxing is a sport of skill first. And skill and technique have not evolved. Ray Robinson and Joe Louis are still the best punchers I have seen as far as punch delivery, technique, accuracy and getting off their hardest shots in combination. They fought 80 years ago. You can only throw but so many punches. It’s not like fighters grew an extra arm over the years. A jab is still a jab. A rear hand power shot is still the same. Some are over hand, some are straight. A hook is still a hook. An uppercut is still an uppercut.
When one of these experts say this I always try to tell them that Ray Robinson’s body would look like Errol Spence’s body if he fought today. And Errol Spence’s body would look like Ray Robinson’s body if he fought in the 1940s. Their conditioning and diets would be of the era they fought in.
Obviously there are things that older fighters did that you don’t do today. Some of them ran 10 miles. We know now that you don’t need to run 10 miles to get ready for a fight. You can sprint and do speed endurance intervals and run 3 and 4 miles and keep more muscle mass. Not produce estrogen which comes on when you run too many miles. And you will stay more explosive. So of course fighters in the past didn’t carry the same muscle mass as they do now.
But the fighters of this era lose 30+ pounds to get ready for fights. And we know that also ruins the testosterone. We know that causes fatigue. We know that damages the punch resistance. So in every era fighters do things counter productive to sports science.
Here is what I know for a fact. Because boxing is skill first like baseball they are the two sports that haven’t advance as much with sports science. Boxing also has weight divisions. Errol Spence is 5’9 ½ with a 72inch reach. Ray Robinson is 5’11 with a 72inch each reach. It’s not like in football where as an offensive lineman was 250lbs, 6ft tall. And now they are 320lbs, 6ft 6 inches.
It’s not like that in boxing. In fact most of these welterweights today are 5’8 and under. Kid Gavilan was 5’10 also in Robinson’s era. Leonard and Hearns and Benitez all would be taller and longer than the welters of this era.
My point is it’s not like evolution has produced a whole era of 6’1, 77 inch welters who can punch, are laser fast and never get tired. They are the same height and size of the past eras they just walk around heavier.
In baseball the average top pitch speed has only went up incrementally and that could be from the balls being played with. After the Steroid era the number of homeruns went down just like they did in past eras. It’s not like in baseball we have players hitting .400 on the regular.
Skill sports are skill sports. Errol Spence is a great fighter and he could compete in any era. But he’s not murking Ray Robinson, Kid Gavlian, Ray Leonard, Emille Griffith, Tommy Hearns, Wilfred Benitez, Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Trindidad or Donald Curry. I’m not saying they all would beat him. But I am saying he would have a full night’s work out of everyone. Their skills and sizes are all comparable give or take...
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back in the day... every contender could fight off the back foot, and every contender could fight on the inside... guys were more well-rounded and their style/game developed better because they fought more often
the cool story that modern fighters automatically beat greats from the past... is nonsense... some could, but most could notComment
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senator pac vs srr would be a 50-50 fight imo.Comment
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They do it right now?
SRR- talent
PAC- techniqueComment
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And I thought I hated Pac..........Comment
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Easy win for pac.Comment
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