Quote Originally Posted by IamInuit View Post
Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
floyd very well could be the best, he looks pretty untouchable at the minute

and as sport progresses it is hard to see anyone in the past beating him, just as the manchester united of today would beat the best of the united teams of yesteryear the best boxers today would beat the best boxers of the past

A problem you will have in this thread is people look at the past with rose tinted glasses, try and tell anyone that any HW since Ali had a chance of beating him, yet there are several before who would have given him a fight

Its not hard to see at all and it does not mean I'm wearing rose coloured glasses.I'm not getting into another debate on the past vs the now as it goes nowhere. There is pro and con on both sides and you cant compare a team sport like soccer to an individual sport such as boxing. Floyd is w/o a doubt the best and most complete fighter of his generation.
whats soccer?

also boxing progresses more than team sports

the gulf in boxing would be more apparent because of the the emphasis on fitness in boxing and the advances in sports science (not to discount boxing technique advances)

Wladimir Klitchko would KO Ali within a few rounds, if ali was around today and had the benefit of the advances that today offers the fight would be different

so relatively to their generaltion floyd might not be that far ahead but if he was to actually share the ring with fighters of the past only as good / fit / athletic as they were in the past there would be little contest