Most of you are going to throw Bananas and cups of piss at me but I believe that the top fighters fighting today operate at a much higher level than the fighters of yesteryear ( 60's and 70s )

With todays conditioning and all the advantages we enjoy today in terms of preperation the fighters entering the ring now have the explosive power and stamina that fighters from the byegone era couldnt dream of .

In terms of compition postwar boxing was immense , there were 100,000 amatuer and professional boxers in the UK alone and only a a handful of weights and a fraction of the titles so undoubted the best made it to the top and it was much harder to manage an average fighter without him getting exposed before British title level .

Stylewise British fighters had an old victorian stand up macho style where you'd meet in centre ring and have an old fashioned scrap !
Could the fighters today have really been able to physically withstand that kind of punishment ?
Could Rocky Grazino really have fought Carlos Monzon the way he fought Tony Zale ?

With each passing generation fighters get much stronger hit harder and do damage todays careers are alot shorter (making weight is an issue ) and people have grown disinterested in the finer skills of boxing elusive fighters are seen as cowrds and the term 'THROWBACK' banded around .

Sugar Ray Robinson would never have got to 128-1 today would he ?