Well #1 Joe Louis was a HELL of a boxer IMO the GREATEST OF ALL-TIME #2 It would be very difficult to throw fighters into a vaccume and decide the outcome of a fight considering neither Louis and Shavers or Lewis and Wlad fought opposition that equal each other.

Better nutrition, training, and healthcare has created bigger and stronger specimens in ALL of sport not just boxing. It doesn't neccesarily mean BETTER specimens just bigger and stronger.


And also Earnie Shavers really wasn't THAT great he was a hell of a puncher but that was it the modern day equivilent is David Tua which really ain't saying much. If David Tua had Audley Harrison's chin or if Hasim Rahman had more pop then they would be the equal of Earnie Shavers. Every decent boxer with a solid punch or a solid chin whipped Shavers' ass: Quarry, Lyle, Cobb, Ali, Holmes, and hell even Bob Stallings at 21-24 beat Shavers by decision.

Wlad would toy with Shavers and vs Lewis Earnie wouldn't stand much of a chance either. Joe Louis might be a different story only because he was a better boxer and IMO a very underrated puncher and he had a hell of a chin only getting KO'd 2 times in his career #1 vs Schmelling in a fight he didn't properly prepare for and he later avenged and #2 vs Rocky Marciano when he was way old and out of shape
I disagree that modern fighters would be stronger while Better nutrition, training, and healthcare can help in theory you only have to look through the heavyweight division at the moment to see they are hardly examples of prime nutrition and conditioning, (Haye and Wlad are probably the best examples) Life was harder 50 years ago this built in toughness and strenth was something you cant train someone who spends all there off time on playstation

Cant imagine Sonny Liston struggling to much in the strength department now can you !