Re: The Good 'Ole days.
It's amazing the kind of guts that many of the old timers showed. Read about Joe Gans' second fight against Battling Nelson, how he fought on even though he was terribly ill with T.B. puking up pints of blood through the ropes and staying ahead even to the 15th round, or Gene Tunney's bloody first fight with Harry Greb. There are many more instances of toughness from those eras than you will hardly find in this day and age, but it comes down to what Scrap said, "Hard times breeds hard men."
They had it much much tougher, they were hungrier, fought much more, etc. etc. I honestly don't think that most guys of our time could even measure up to the old-timer's sparring partners.
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