Quote Originally Posted by SlimTrae View Post
I undertand it in theory, but technically speaking, then a guy like Benny Leonard could he have been overated since he didnt fight many Mexicans- who dominate the smaller weight classes?
For sure, and he probably is overrated.

When you become a boxing fan who decides to go back and learn about boxing's yesteryears, we all get the same lines fed to us. Stories about how great this guy and that guy was, how much tougher everyone was, how everybody fought for the love of boxing and fought all the best opposition, ect ect. There's a lot of truth in there I'm sure, but there's also a lot of bullshit. The problem is most people are scared shitless in actually going against the grain, researching and actually forming their own opinions. And frankly, most don't want to, because their heads are full of dreamy nostalgic visions of a "better time", and to suggest that a guy might not have been all he was cracked up to be is like pissing on the bible or the quran.