Most prolific active boxer of recent times?

[Dizaster]

Modern fighters are much less susceptible to wear tear and permanent damage than their past counterparts.
Past fighters fought TOO regularly and in the interests of safety, no elite fighter should fight more than three times a year.

True True.... Back 20, 30, 40 years ago, less was known about head trauma and things like that, and permanent damage to the brain... Which wouldn't immediately be apparant to the fighters until many years after their retirements..

Back then it would have surely been looked at differently.. More of a "working class" full time job.. You train for a few weeks, do a fight, get paid. Train another couple of weeks, do a fight, get paid.... Now it's an elite sport, for elite athletes, and the money allows them to commit a good 4 to 6 months of training between fights, without actually needing to fight in between just to make ends meet..

You have to have a lot of respect for those guys back then who really carved out good pro careers.. And fought that often..

I'd would not be surprised if the guy with 95 ko losses didn't know his name..

To be fair though, there were some pretty horrible jobs back in those days.. I remember seeing a video of a guy in the back of a truck, shovelling huge mounts of straight asbestos into a seperate pile, without any protective clothing or breathing aparatus... The guys lungs and body would have litereally been falling to peices in old age, and probably would have had a brain of mush that would rival any boxer....

"Grandpa, what did you used to do for a job?"
"duhi do dlu da daii doww"

Tough lives back then, we have things easy these days.... I respect the fighters of today who don't neccessarily take a tonne of fights every year, but they sure as hell don't waste the 2 or 3 fights that they DO take!

It's a throwback to the heart & toughness of the old days..