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Originally Posted by IceTea
* Boxers do not train better than today than in previous generations. Boxing training is on the decline due to the old-time trainers dying off. The ones that are left, with a few exceptions, are not nearly on the same level. Just look at the corner work in the Pavlik/Martinez bout...both were lousy. Many trainers today are moreless body shapers or halfass conditioners rather than actually teaching boxing.
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Bad cut men are hardly a new thing. Look at Tyson's corner in the Buster Douglas fight, applying rubber gloves filled with water to reduce his swelling. I don't know that the art of the cut man has drastically *improved* over the last few generations - it seems pretty archaic in there at times - but I don't buy that it's gotten worse, and one fight is certainly not proof of that (and I can cite any number of fights from the "good old days" that featured guys with faces that looked like they were in a 1970s horror movie).