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Past vs. present champions, part 1

By Martin Mulcahey
MaxBoxing.com

Thursday, August 26, 2004

How does the current crop of world champions rank when compared with the champs of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago? Fans of every generation have heard it from the elder statesmen of boxing, "Back in my day we had real fighters! These kids today wouldn't last three rounds with the old-timers. Our champions came up the hard way." Well, it's time to put the words of old-time fight fans to an analytical test, and evaluate the champions of 1954, '64, '74, '84, '94 and 2004. I picked The Ring Mag ...

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