Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
Just to play devil's advocate, you do realize that there were plenty of big boxers back in the day. For example, Jess Willard awas 6'6, Buddy Baer was 6'7, Primo Carnera was 6'5 and Luis Firpo was 6'3. I'm not going to argue those guys would have beat Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko. You know my point though.
That's true, I don't think it's necessarily the size, it's the quality of today's modern athlete. A lot of those big guys back then were just bumbling oafs.