Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
The difference was, generally, "old school" boxers who were the champ, were THE champ and had to fight all comers to stay champ. Not like today where you can hold one or two. Belts and in the process avoid fighting acouple ofother very good fighters whoarepotentially the best in the division.


Yeah? All comers you say? Wowsers!

There was nobody ducked back then I guess. And of course, no fighters ever got left in the cold because they didn't play ball with the mob or have the right mob connections.

And of course no fighter was ever denied a meaningful fight because of the colour of his skin. No promoter ever refused to take on a black fighter or put his kid in the ring with a black fighter because he wouldn't draw the same money a quality white fighter would.

And even if somehow a fighter WAS ducked or left in the cold for some reason, fear not! Because technology made access to information so easy! No doubt there would be tons of boxing websites writing articles about how fighter X is being ducked. The many internet boxing forums would be abuzz about how great this guy was and how he wasn't getting his shot. Oh and I bet his HL video and a couple of his fights would end up on Youtube and go viral, so the whole world knew about him and his incredible skill (as opposed to just the 50 drunk spectators at some smokey ball room who actually watched him fight).

What a magical time that was in boxing history. Nobody cared about money and everyone fought the toughest competition possible every time out because, gosh darn it, they owed it to the fans, to their country, and most importantly to god above!

I think I'm going to get cryogenically frozen. I'll leave a note to thaw me out when time travel is possible so I can go back and watch REAL MEN fight.