How would you rate this HW era?

Come on, what's great about it??? There are no contenders in this era that would be titlists in other era's. It's getting old, let it go man.

It's starting to improve although we still don't see enough fights between the top guys. t least the 80s had some solid match ups. Where's Pulev v Pov v Wilder v Jennings a bunch of other guys, they just wait around for the Wlad payday.

This makes me wonder that if all the top welterweights were European and all the top cruiserweights were American if Cruiserweight would be considered the best division in boxing. I think it might... Not complaining, US media should promote their own fighters. Just saying. Nonsense! There's no american champ or prospect in the light heavy but it is considered a very good division.

In reality I think it's in-between, like a 6 or 7 out of 10. However, the perception is that it's a 3/10, so for that reason it's heavily underrated. I think a lot of the narrative being written by the pundits and "hardcore" fans has sort of seeped into the general boxing consciousness in a toxic way. A lot of them think Holyfield and Lewis were fighting top 10 killers every fight. A premier fighter prob has 3-4 really big fights in their career. The rest are against also-rans. The wlads and Mayweathers are the exception not the rule. There's a bunch of exciting fighters at HW

What's wrong with this era? Come on, what's great about it??? There are no contenders in this era that would be titlists in other era's.

Its definitely not the strongest. But its made even worse by the top fighters (excluding WK) not fighting each other regularly enough. The top contenders are more content sitting and waiting for a title shot rather than testing themselves. How are we supposed to know if Fury/Wilder/Jennings/Pulev are actually top contenders if they arent fighting each other? (I left Povetkin off because he has been taking on some better opp recently, even so he hasnt fought any of the other top 5 guys)

It was very bad until recently. Last three years or so have been a step in the right direction. It's not that all of these suck it's more like up until recently a lot of these top guys weren't fighting each other or they would maybe have one decent match-up all the while padding their record in hopes of getting a shot at Vitali or Wlad

Like every other heavyweight of this era. What's wrong with this era?

Like Tyson Fury. Like every other heavyweight of this era.

Heavyweight is in the middle of a transition period between the previous era and the new, and the new has some promise. Heavyweight has also gotten better in the last few years. But the era currently ending is definitely one of the worst historically.

The worst in history by far. Still waiting for the champion of this era to actually beat someone of any note. Like Tyson Fury.

The worst in history by far. Still waiting for the champion of this era to actually beat someone of any note.

One of the worst in history

Klitschko-dominant HW division-weak Rate of this HW era-boring

Most of the current heavies would beat most of the heavies from any other era. It's an obvious and undeniable fact in reality. What nationality are all the detractors? I bet nearly every single one of you is American! No it isn't because they've never fought. It is merely an opinion.

It's garbage, those that say otherwise are simply doing it to hype up the Klitschkos' dominance which is commendable, but call a fuckin' spade a spade.

Its a 2 On a scale of 1 to 10 Theae guys cant fight for squat. Its sad they dont teach them the basics

Its a 2 On a scale of 1 to 10 Theae guys cant fight for squat. Its sad they dont teach them the basics

At lot of it undoubtedly has to do with exposure in the US. Wilder is hyped at the moment but has yet to have a real test. Wîlder is hyped? Everybody acknowledges he can't box for shyt and all he's got going or him is his power. He is nothing in the US, nobody has ever heard of him, now if he were a Euro like Sturm, Bute, Abraham, etc. fighting bums he'd be a celebrity making millions.

its obvious in this thread that alot of posters have no idea about boxing except for a few years,,, the 50's was dreadful,,, or how about the era of jack dempesy when dempsey would never defend vs a negro... or how about the jack johnson era,,,, those were horrible eras for different reasons,, mainly racism,,, At least today everyone has a fair shake,, Some of you should do some reading before you spout off that this is the worst era ever,,, boxing has a deep history,, learn it