Wladimir plans to box for 10 more years to break Joe louis' record

[Max Power]

Well I will apologise then. Yes that wide spread chant has several origins but at it's core, with only minimal thinking effort, is in fact ridiculous.

There has never been a harder hitting era for one, and this is also the heftiest era on record. Going back more than 30 years, the HW division was a combination of what we today call HW and CW and the average opponent weight was something like 200lbs, smaller than any HW boxer today and smaller even than Chris Byrd. The top end boxers were below the average weight of todays boxers with a few giant exceptions. So there are really only a few eras worth of boxers to even compare with.

Then there's the skills. There is a tendency to greatly blow out of proportion past boxers skills as if they were masters of defence and offense and smooth as whipped cream. In reality many of them were complete punch bags and would probably not be professional boxers today were they to be trained and experienced as they were.

Then there's the athleticism, in the old days training was ridiculous, it had no relevance to the sport quite often. Today the champions are lean and mega fit and only some opponents were fat. In the past, the champs were either weak string beans or chubby! There has never been a more athletic time in HW boxing.

Look at Wladimir's opponents non-Klitschko fights and you can see how much better they are when compared with the opponents of say Mike Tyson or Larry Holmes for instance.

I am actually a proponent of the 90's era and Lennox Lewis myself but I really find the running down of the current era absolutely disgraceful and idiotic.

I think only about 5% of the people who say that actually believe it, and they are all probably a hundred years old and recapping what they thought they saw ringside in 1965 or something lol. The rest are just jealous that it is not a black American holding the titles anymore and instead a pair of white, former commie, Slavic boxers replanted the flag of HW boxing on the other side of the world making them next to irrelevant at HW.