Is This the Worst Heavyweight Era Ever?

[Knicksman20]

at the American conspiracy.

The HW division sucks right now, American or non-American.

It ****** in the early 80s when it was mostly Americans. It's weak now when there's hardly any Americans in the mix.

Anytime you've got Sam Peter and Oleg Maskaev being considered top heavyweights, and recently had Shannon Briggs being considered a top HW, the division ain't good.

Totally agree TS. At least the heavies from the 80's went 15 rounds & actually threw more than one punch at a time. Today it seems fighters are more out of shape & can't fight more than 4 rounds.

[Jim_Davis]

America needs to make another great heavyweight to gain world interest in boxing again.

[beez721]

Totally agree TS. At least the heavies from the 80's went 15 rounds & actually threw more than one punch at a time. Today it seems fighters are more out of shape & can't fight more than 4 rounds.

you must mean the american heavies? name one european fighter that hasnt been able to fight 10-12 rounds regularly???

[STEELHEAD]

It's surely one of the worst ever when you've got guys as weak as Sam Peter, Oleg Maskaev, and Sultain Ibragimov being top contenders/titleholders.

Which era was worse?

Maybe the early 80s. That was pretty sucky too when you had Leon Spinks being considered a top contender.

the only era comprably ****ty was the tyson era.
but this is all we got at this time. and to think peoples still post idiot nuthugging threads about tyson. a lot of these duffusses are so simple and shallow they dont have a clue about the lower wt divisions which is where the actions at.

[THE MASTERKUSH]

the only era comprably ****ty was the tyson era.
but this is all we got at this time. and to think peoples still post idiot nuthugging threads about tyson. a lot of these duffusses are so simple and shallow they dont have a clue about the lower wt divisions which is where the actions at.

auhh no. now we're going to be plagued by the tyson childrens threads again.

[dmaclv]

I'll say this. Everyone is talkin about how limited the talent in the division is and how bad all the fights are but their also talkin bout how one particular race is dominating the division.

[Mike Tyson77]

50's was the worst hands down.

[The Troll]

When Chris Byrd vs Davaryl Williamson and Sergei Liachovich vs Shannon Briggs are top tier level fights, yes it's a bad as it's been since I've followed boxing by a wide wide margin.

Liachovich's fight against Brewster was great but you have guys like Golota who I love but is a fraction of the fighter he was a few years ago still as Contenders, Shannon Briggs as well.

[duffgun]

You're wrong about Povetkin, Duffgun. I remember you predicted Byrd would defeat him, but it turned out Povetkin won every round and made them throw in the towel in the 11th! For some reason you keep underestimating Povetkin.

yeah i thought byrd would win but i am still not convinced about him he is very flatfooted doesn't have much head movement has a leaky defence but i could very well be completely wrong as i was wrong about the byrd fight.

[duffgun]

yeah i thought byrd would win but i am still not convinced about him he is very flatfooted doesn't have much head movement has a leaky defence but i could very well be completely wrong as i was wrong about the byrd fight.

he has plenty of time though to prove me wrong and i would like to see him fight wlad at some point.