>>14440944This isn't true at all, though.
The "tough guys" of the Greatest Generation are people like Audie Murphy, Joe Louis, and Jack Dempsey. There were a million REAL tough guys in that fucking era.
Do you know what the rules of boxing were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s? How much of a fucking pounding you had to take before a ref would call a fight off? It was an absolute CTE fest beyond your wildest imaginings and that's just a sport, not even talking about WW2.
pic related was like 5'0'' even and 100 times the hard-boiled killer of men than anyone who exists today
