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[Bundana]

I'm not comparing amateur bouts to pro fights... all I'm saying, is that those fighters learned enough during a long amateur career, to make quick progess in the pro ranks. Why is this so hard to understand?...

[Bundana]

Surely you will recognize, that the experience of fighters like Usyk, Loma, Bivol, Beterbiev, Golovkin, etc... isn't limited to their often only 20-25 pro fights. Yes, yes, I know... amateur boxing isn't the same as pro boxing. But how can we ignore the fact, that these boxers had very long amateur...

[Bundana]

So you want to continue focusing exclusively on SRR, Greb and Armstrong? I wonder, why that is... could it be because they just happen to be at the very top of most "greatest fighters of all time" lists?

Yes, those guys were undoubtedly brave, tough, strong, etc.! But were the...

[Bundana]

Why would the fact that some of the old-timers often fought a dozen (or more) times a year, in itself make them braver, tougher, etc.? Don't you think, that some of even the top fighters, sometimes just went through the motions against hapless journeymen... doing just enough to prevent them from being...

[Bundana]

Only a tiny, tiny group had this crazy schedule of a dozen (or more!) fights a year. 99% of the old-timers fought, on average, less than once every 3 months!

That fighters back in the day were (on average) braver, tougher and stronger than today... well, we don't really know that. It's...

[Bundana]

How do you think, the best fighters of the first quarter of the 20th century would do against the best from the first quarter of the 21st century? Would they "wipe the floor" with the modern sissies - or have today's boxers, over a 100 year period, evolved too much for the old-timers to keep...