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Weight Classes Enable True Era Comparisons
- Boxing uniquely allows fair era-to-era comparisons because strict weight classes keep opponents physically similar across decades.
- This makes experience, technique, and psychology more decisive than raw size or modern training gains.
Ali–Wilt Press Conference Moment
- Dan Carlin recounts the aborted Ali vs. Wilt Chamberlain press conference where Chamberlain said "Timber" and walked out.
- The moment showed even huge athletes feared boxing's unique threats despite size advantages.
Experience Multiplies Skill
- Early-era boxers accumulated vastly more ring experience, sometimes hundreds of professional fights.
- That volume of competition produced practical skills and instincts modern fighters rarely develop.