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EP23 Boxing with Ghosts

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Lost Martial Art of Sword Fighting

There's nobody to teach the young boxers today, the conditioning and the art itself. They have literally gone the way of the dodo. Even if you wanted to try to recreate this being from 50, 75 years ago, you know, that if you could take the DNA and bring them back to life, you couldn't recreate this person because we wouldn't have anybody to impart the skills in their formative years. Muhammad Ali had one of the fastest jabs you ever saw. You can't fix that with weights, right? And sugar Ray Robinson had the same sort of punch power or speed over all these great old punchers who were absolute murderers then says none of them touched a

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