I'd say 1920 s followed by the 90 s.
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Originally posted by The D3vil View PostI've always heard about the '70s with Saad, Qawi, Spinks, Eddie Mustafa, Marvin, Galindez, and Lopez.
Talk about a stacked ass era.
Spinks is underrated as hell for coming out on top of that era.
even his run at heavyweight is underrated. Beating undefeated Holmes and dominating 6 ft 6 cooney after making 175 not too much earlier
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Originally posted by DeeMoney View Post
This was my initial thought. 20s, and some what into the 30s, had great depth. 40s had WWII to deal with, but was carried by a top heavy run by Charles and Moore, and Lesnevich to a lesser extent. The 70s had Foster at the start and Muhammad at the end, with lots of good guys in between
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Originally posted by QueensburyRules View Post
- Those 40s extended into the 50s with Moore holding the LH title with numerous great young guns and needless to say, that was a very hungry era.
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Originally posted by Ivich View Post
I think the 50's was a pretty average era,apart from Moore,Johnson ,and Maxim there were no standouts Patterson only very briefly paused there.The fact that ex middles Turpin and Lamotta made the top ten underlines the ordinariness of the decade imo.Competitive but not stellar,imo.
https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Th...yweight--1950s
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Originally posted by QueensburyRules View Post
- - Looks strong enough to take more than a few 70s era LH down.
https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Th...yweight--1950s
Saad Muhammad
Mustafa Muhammad
Conteh
Galindez
Foster
Hutchins
Kates
Cuello
Johnson
Scott
Rondon
Finnegan
Burnett
Parlov
Ahumada
Bogs
Cassidy
Lopez
Fourie
The 50's don't have that. I think you're just arguing for the sake of it,like a reflex action.
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...of course, no decade is devoid of praiseworthy stars. Like a scout troop sitting round the campfire, we are all of one accord in that.
Some noteworthy 1950s 175 pounders:
Archie Moore
Harold Johnson
Bob Satterfield
Joey Maxim
Doc Williams
Jimmy Slade
Yvon Durelle
Floyd Patterson
Oakland Billy Smith
Harry Kid Mathews
Nick Barone
Irish Bob Murphy
Paul Andrews
Danny Nardico
Wes Bascom
Yolande Pompey
Hans Stretz
Tony Anthony
Chick Calderwood
Gerhard Hecht
Chuck Spieser
This said, I'll stick with my choice of the 1920's, followed by the 1970's.
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One way to tell how strong the light heavy division is/was is from the heavyweight division. In a truly weak heavyweight era fighters like Tunney, Moore, Spinks, etc, etc would be heavyweights because they could be. Compare that to the 70's when Foster made an effort...
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Originally posted by Rosco3387 View PostOne way to tell how strong the light heavy division is/was is from the heavyweight division. In a truly weak heavyweight era fighters like Tunney, Moore, Spinks, etc, etc would be heavyweights because they could be. Compare that to the 70's when Foster made an effort...
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Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
Man Joe Frazier vs. Bob Foster was B-R-U-T-A-L."the sheriff" a mean, homicidal punching machine. Yet when fighting one of the marquee heavyweights at the time, he was outfostered so to speak, and it was not even close. Some say it was size... If you really pay attention to punch strength measurements, Diana Wolf, a female middle weight hits about as hard as any fellow middle weight in MMA (courtesy of the punch machine in Vegas). Middleweights that punch really hard, may do so, at least in some objective ways, independent of weight. So Foster's punch was still as dangerous as many to Smokin Joe.
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