Thread: Overrating the Past......? No way!

People in general today may be bigger and taller (thanks to GMO foods, hybrids, hormones in the meat and produce, etc.) but they sure as hell aint STRONGER than they were 60 years ago. I don't think it takes a genius on this one, mates.

Toughness? Lemm give ya an example. My great grandma, in 1953, fell down a flight of stairs and broke her leg so bad the bone was sticking out, visibly. At that time she was 83 years old, and had probably just made a tray of lasagne, and roasted some eels.

She was all alone that day, and somehow pushed the bone back into her leg, crawled up the basement stairs (of which there were 16), and called an ambulance. Now that's toughness.

These days, people are suing for mental/emotional damage if they happen to see something that psychologically disturbed them, or if they even see a speck of blood somewhere on TV or wherever, all the Soccer Mommy's Boys go whining to the principal that they couldn't sleep that night due to "terrifying" memories.

These days Solis throws a left hook and fucks up his knee and is hospitalized for 2 weeks. A young, big, huge, in-his-prime strapping man. These days Wladimir K gets too much "vaseline" (yeah, I bet) before the Brewster fight, and is crawling and panting like a little bitch by the 5th round. Etc...

Boxers used to lose several teeth in a fight and keep fghting, refs didnt stop the fights, boxers fought 15, 20, 25 rounds in the old days, bare-frikkin knuckled, etc.. Marciano's nose was hanging off in the Charles rematch. Imagine nowadays what Frank Cappuccino or Joe Cortez would do in that situation, let alone what the fighter or his cornermen would do, let alone what Flip Homansky or any other ring doctor would do.

And you're telling me that Rocky Marciano--who used to do sprints uphill and downhill, forwards and backwards, hit a 300 pound heavybag for hours, etc....---WOULD NOT UTTERLY WIPE UP in his toughness every single modern-day 185 pound fighter

Yeah, Holyfield's only chance would be to use his head-butting crap, and hope for a hematoma like Hasim Rahman got.