Mate we can see the modern guys training on YouTube for Christ sake! It's you who live in a fantasy land.

Oh right so all other sportsmen and athletes train harder than ever but pro boxers can't be bothered training anymore and just eat cheeseburgers instead. Do you really believe what you are saying? That's one of the things you have been brainwashed to say by the old time nutbags with a vested interest in rubbishing the present and glorifying the past.

Today they really are "professional boxers". In the past they sometimes worked a days work and then hit the gym. Today, their job, from the time they get up to the time they go to bed it to train and prepare to fight. They have camps that completely systematise their training, sleep and diet to maximize their performance. If you think a bit of sparring after work, a few dozen rounds on the heavy bag, a skip and a jog and a dozen sets of push ups and situps are better than that you are crazy!

Yesterdays athletes were professional boxers in the sense that they received payment for their fights and at top level they may not have worked (depending on how far back you go). But they were not "professional athletes" as we would describe them today.

Look at a football player from 1970, skinny, a bit of a pot belly, maybe even smoking a cigarette at half time instead of eating an orange. It's the same analogy with boxing. It's a joke!

There's no comparison between the skills of today and those of yesterday. Wladimir and Floyd show dominance the world has never seen before, like Lewis and Oscar before them.

And the best is yet to come I'm sure of it!