 When shown a photo of a Basset Hound from 60 years ago, he was less than impressed.Countering Bulldog breeders' claims that the breed's extreme traits, such as a severe underbite and facial wrinkles, are for historical fighting purposes, historian David Hancock pointed out that "the way in which breeders try to justify the short face, the excessive wrinkling and the physique it now depicts as being traditional is just simply untrue.