It’s just really difficult to compare the two in accomplishments. I do agree that you can’t hold modern fighters to the same standards of fighting 200 times in their careers. Old fighters obviously had a lot of padding on their record because of that. Although I do like it to an extent. I don’t want Canelo fighting someone with a record of 2-3-1, but I think that upsets would happen quite a bit if you were constantly fighting journeymen. You will eventually run into someone with a difficult style for you and you are having a bad day and you lose. I think it just makes it more interesting.

Weight classes are also something that is different from other sports. Many sports depend on size as an advantage. A welterweight is still a welterweight whether now or then.

The sport is just so different comparatively, but still basically the same when it comes to the in ring stuff. Maybe it’s time to start just saying who is the greatest per decade or at least generation rather than of all time because it’s so hard to compare a fighter from 1920 to a fighter now.