NSB Ignoring The Obvious: Everyone Has Overrated the Post-Klitschko Heavyweights

Klitschko was underrated for the incredibly successful part of his career for not having great rivals. Fury et al are underrated for having no obvious single dominant figure. Let's face it, no-one rates any current era. The past was always better. The reality is that the best are always pretty good. They have to be to get to this kind of status. History will deal with these guys. Their resumes are what will count. Number of defences, unifications, undisputed, wins in the big fights against their rivals. That's where the current crop falls short. They're not fighting each other. They're almost in two brackets - the Wilder/Fury side and the Joshua/Usyk side. No-one has yet crossed that boundary. It can still happen. The much heralded 90s crop had very few mega contests until they were all heading towards retirement. Not sure, I don’t think anybody in the 90’s was saying Tyson, Bowe or Lewis weren’t as good as Marciano, Liston or Patterson. There was a recognition times have moved on. Most people objectively look at this generation of HW‘s and can’t see in what way they are better. Fatter for sure but not better. Look at Fury, that disgusting fat belly, stick thin legs. No muscle definition at all. Which HW champs looked like that before him? There weren’t any or if there were they didn’t last too long.

Worst generation of HWs in history. The division is trash let’s face it. Ive been saying it in here for years the HWs today are big lumbering giants that cant box I rarely watch the HWs since the super size became a thing, what Ive learned over my many years here is that the majority of this forum have no clue what they are looking at, its all love hate and jumping on every wagon that goes bye.

Klitschko was underrated for the incredibly successful part of his career for not having great rivals. Fury et al are underrated for having no obvious single dominant figure. Let's face it, no-one rates any current era. The past was always better. The reality is that the best are always pretty good. They have to be to get to this kind of status. History will deal with these guys. Their resumes are what will count. Number of defences, unifications, undisputed, wins in the big fights against their rivals. That's where the current crop falls short. They're not fighting each other. They're almost in two brackets - the Wilder/Fury side and the Joshua/Usyk side. No-one has yet crossed that boundary. It can still happen. The much heralded 90s crop had very few mega contests until they were all heading towards retirement.

Since Klitschko fight , that was 8 years ago, Fury only beat Whyte and Wilder as legit guys. Man, that is very bad activity. We all shouldn`t be really surprised Ngannou embarrassed him. It is not like Fury is some proven top heavyweight with many wins against top 10 guys.

its hard to compare different era's, this ngannou could knock over lots of guys, u would need to see him in a 12 round fight v another good guy to assess him properly, hes made a damn good start to his boxing career tho lol but people now see what hes like, it could make a difference

Worst generation of HWs in history. The division is trash let’s face it.

fury last night literally looked like one of those black and white ancient dude pre dempsey, a complete amateur Completely. Master boxer my ass. He looked skilled against Wilder because Wilder has no fundamentals whatsoever. This crop of guys are just okay.

Yes that is true, although a young Fury is a tough nut too crack since he is not bothered and ashamed by evading you for twelve rounds and raking in rounds with jabs and movement. Now that he is getting older it looks like he has lost a step, since his style is very dependent on his reflexes . Ngannou showed better fundamentals with his poise.

None of these guys will look nearly as good as WK looked at 39+, fury last night literally looked like one of those black and white ancient dude pre dempsey, a complete amateur