I won't say they were better....If you took the same fighters from those eras and put them in today with all the same benefits..Training etc they would stilll be the same fighters...but again they would follow the same routines today's guys do...fight less, train the same etc,,,

Fighters then also needed to fight more to eat and feed their families...they did not get the monstor pay days they do now a days....you will be surprised what the need to feed your family will make you do....

Fighters were also more or less slaves to their promoters then...they had to fight when they were told...and the promoters took a lot more of the purse.....


Today's top guys would have fared just as well in the older eras...but this is a brutal sport and if there is no need to put yourself through those things why bother?