What would happen if Klitschko called out Ali's opponents?

[Max Power]

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!

[ruthless rocco]

Smoke some more crack with your buddy Rob Ford @Max Power

P4P the old fighters would wipe the floor with the fat assed steroid using new ones!

[Max Power]

You keep going on about P4P. What are you saying? Are you implying that Ray Robinson could solve the Mayweather puzzle or something? Please don't get me started there! That is a complete proof of how much better today's champs are. Mayweather would make Robinson look "completely" stupid! And everybody knows it!

So much for your P4P argument!

[ruthless rocco]

You keep going on about P4P. What are you saying? Are you implying that Ray Robinson could solve the Mayweather puzzle or something? Please don't get me started there! That is a complete proof of how much better today's champs are. Mayweather would make Robinson look "completely" stupid! And everybody knows it!

So much for your P4P argument!

your whole argument is based on now versus then... now they're bigger stronger and better. if we equal the playing field by giving the fighters of yesteryear the same advantages that today's fighters have ie: nutrition, scientific training and steroids the old ones would destroy the new ones. pretty much everyone agrees with this but you.

you are a moron who just needs attention. i think you need either a girlfriend or boyfriend to pay you some attention.

[smashup]

Maxpower is a troll people...a wind up merchant who I 100% Guarantee is an existing member under a different name (I got a rough idea who )
I've already blown his bullshit theory out of the water by mentioning what the 'tiny' Jack Dempsey achieved time and time against bigger fighters.
Something he has no answer for/to and conveniently chose to ignore lt , strange for someone with an answer to every other post ;-)
Much like Ross he's a wanker.
Stop taking the bait and wise up people

[Violent Demise]

Maxpower is a troll people...a wind up merchant who I 100% Guarantee is an existing member under a different name (I got a rough idea who )
I've already blown his bullshit theory out of the water by mentioning what the 'tiny' Jack Dempsey achieved time and time against bigger fighters.
Something he has no answer for/to and conveniently chose to ignore lt , strange for someone with an answer to every other post ;-)
Much like Ross he's a wanker.
Stop taking the bait and wise up people

Who you think it is? I say it's that fag Preme

[Max Power]

@smashup

Stand down nutbag!

I'll did not overlook your post and you must know I would not be the first guy to claim that Dempsey's career was all smoke and mirrors. Sometimes even this "no-lifer" has to do other things you know!! lol

I'm no more of a troll you guys are when you post rubbish contrary to the ideas I'm putting forward. You might call me a "counter-troll" even!

[Silkeyjoe]

Are people retarded? Anyone can make the arguments max makes. All you have to do is watchthe fighters and make up your own mind. I think the Klits are great in any era. Outside that no one would beat a prime foreman, Fraizer, Ali etc. I don't believe Fury, Haye, Chisora, Arreola, Stiverne, Poverkin, Pulev, are the all time greats max believes them to be

[bradlee180]

Dempsey stood 6'¾" (185 cm). In his era, the average man stood 5'7" (170 cm) in the 19-teens and 1920s.

[Max Power]

Kind of implying Bradlee, that size did in fact matter even for Dempsey... But I do not wish to focus on size as an argument for anything as guys here to jump on that p4p thing immediately and nullify that argument. From the pic you provided you can see instantly that Dempsey has strong arms and shoulders but at his core he looks nothing like a modern boxer and you can tell that training regimes were way different back then.

Dempsey was one of those fighters who was not a "professional" athlete as we view them today. He worked a hard days work before hitting the gym.