Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
Quote Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
What ?? he would have to completey change his style because i've seen his fights and style he had you actually think he would get away with that in modern boxing ?? he would get beaten to a pulp and now your saying he would be 3 inches taller ?? no lets say he was born with same parents in same era as modern greats with his old style which is dated yes very dated just say he was taught different way how can you know for sure that he would be more affective im not saying im completey right either but what im saying how can you know for sure ??



I'll say it again, if Gallieleo had been born in 1940 he wouldn't need to put away his 16 th century telescope he would never have had a 16 th century telescope! He would have spent his entire career dealing with modern telescopes!


Your comparing this to boxing ?? thats completey different and you know it.
Aww man you are so exasperating! I know his style is old that's because he fought in 1900!!!

If he was born in 1950 he wouldn't fight like that would he?

How can you not understand the analogy? It's not different it's exactly the same principal.


When it comes to Gallileo you know full well that the telescopes they had back then were just the best tools that he had available to him at that point in history. If he lived in the present he would have a different set of tools.

It's the same in boxing. In 1900 Jack Johnson was drawing on (and inspiring) all of the accumulated boxing knowledge of his time and putting it to better use than any other heavyweight.

This is because he had an innate understanding of pugilism and that ability can be translated to any era.

If he was born in 1950 he would have used his innate understanding of pugilism to master the accumluated boxing knowledge of that current era and built upon that. He wouldn't be fighting like he did in 1900, because he wouldn't have been from the 1900's! How is that so hard to understand?

Leonardo Da Vinci is famous for many things but one of his most curious achievements were his drawings and designs of helicopters several hundred years before they were invented.

Now modern scientists have attempted to build some of Da Vinci's designs and they don't work. His helicopter wouldn't have flown.

Does that mean that if he would have lived today he would have been incapable of bulding a helicopter that flew? Of course not, he was several hundred years ahead of his time and it's fair to assume that if he lived today he would be designing things way beyond our current understanding of technology.

How can you not see how this relates to Johnson? Or for that matter any sporting athlete?
I have just read through this thread with a lot of interest.

Nice arguments, Bilbo