Quote Originally Posted by IamInuit View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post

Good post. It's amazing how modern fans can't understand the difference between watching and reading about fights.
And its amazing to me how modern fans discount history holding onto the belief that boxing started in 1990.
Really? There can't be many fans like that around, surely?

In this day and age we see every aspect of a fighters career - beginning to end, through the good, bad and ugly. We can form our own opinion without relying on the tales of others. It's arguable that old fighters put under the same scrutiny wouldn't look so great... Or maybe look greater.

There are dozens and dozens of modern fans that rubbish the best fighters of this era, yet wax lyrical about men they've never seen. If the fighters from the past were viewed from a blank slate, would these fans be so quick to label them "great?" I highly doubt it.

It's a valid point.