Poll Position: How the Fans Voted
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| Are TSS readers smarter than readers on other sites? |
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| Yes |
 39% (92 votes) |
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| No |
45% (107 votes) |
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| What other sites? |
16% (38 votes) |
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What Counts Intelligence is a hard thing to measure. The race-slanted IQ tests notwithstanding, some people are book smart, some people are street smart, and some people aren’t smart enough or are too smart for their own good. Still, in trying to create, hold and give to an audience something that they cannot find elsewhere on the ‘net, while seeking to avoid the pitfalls of dumbing things down, we’ve concluded that there’s a demand for smart material for a cadre of smart fight fans. Since who’s who, like what’s what, is usually easier to guess at from the outside looking in, in your opinion, does The Sweet Science generally attract a smarter reader than the other boxing websites? |
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No Love For The Modern Glove
Fight fans who are of the opinion that modern boxers could have held their own against guys from earlier eras always seem to ignore the fact that boxers back in the day were more durable than modern ones and had to be because of the different conditions under which they fought. For one thing, the lighter, non-water-resistant, horsehair gloves used in earlier eras required one to have stronger hand bones than the heavier, foam-padded, water resistant gloves used today, so any modern fighter who suffers chronic hand injuries would never have lasted very long in bouts fought in earlier eras (unless, of course, they took a little off of every punch that they threw, which, of course, would have made them much less effective fighters). ---TSS reader Feed The Cat offers some perspective on the Old vs. New debate
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