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Originally Posted by erickdamac
Calm down!!
When you look at the Hp power of a modern day guy and a Old timer take in mind that, Most modern day Boxers are way more athletic than the old guys, so they will be faster and hit harder.
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Well thats a very big statement Eric which much more knowledable boxing historians and commentators than you or I are very unsure about.
To all the plusses that a modern athlete has you could also very validly point to equally as many factors in the old timers favors such as a much deeper experiance and understanding of boxing as a craft both to fighting much more reguarly (100+ bout careers were very common) plus having a much better level of competition generally due to the much deeper talent pool due to boxing being so popular during its golden age of the teens to the forties.
Also many "trainers" these days are in fact conditioners who despite being experts on getting fighters fit are woefully short of the actual craft and knowledge many of the old time boxing trainers possessed.
There are in fact many boxing manuals and articles from boxing 's godlen age in which they discuss many techniques both offensive but particuarly defensive which have all but disappeared from modern boxing and are not practised by modern boxers.
Now i am not saying the old timers overall were better but I think we should be open minded that the two are much more evenly matched.
rgds
Dean