Boxing - The Newer Is Always Better

Boxing's interaction of athleticism, experience, technique and psychology is a far more complex activity than just running, jumping, lifting or throwing. To blithely state that today's top professional boxes are better than their predecessors would be like suggesting a singer is great only because he is capable of reaching a higher note than anyone else. The old-time trainers who lived this sport day in and day out, their whole lives, they understood that wasn't to be done. They trained better than Rocky Marciano, okay, or Joe Lewis. So modern methods don't necessarily mean better. And that's certainly the case in boxing, which has devolved, not evolved.