Overrated by Casuals/Underrated by Hardcores

Good post.

 

bless you brother Erratic

 

So what is your standard for technique? More importantly, why should there even be one? Techniques have evolved out of necessity to suit the standards, rules, and regulations of their particular era. Not because they’re just continually finding more advanced ways of throwing an even straighter punch than before or otherwise improving on the basic fundamentals. Those haven’t changed in a long, long time.

So why do we hold a necessary difference of technique against any era? If the fighters were the cream of the crop by that standard, we shouldn’t (with exceptions made for depth of era/weight class, etc.).

As do I and so should everyone else. It’s straight up foolish. Especially when matching said fighters against those who fought in vastly different eras under different rulesets and conditions. It’s not even worth racking your brain over.