Comments Thread For: Heavyweight: Four Instead of Two Works Fine

[champion4ever]

The 90s….Holyfield, Tyson, Bowe, Lewis, Foreman, Holmes, Mercer, Moorer, Morrison, Tua, Bruno, even lesser guys like Maskaev, Rahman, Stewart, Botha, Schulz, the 90s era was a far better era than we have now. The 90s literally was the second best era of heavyweight boxing in history. So good that many boxing fans, not even mentioning the general sports fan, cannot remember what was happening at welterweight, lightweight, light heavyweight, etc during that era because we had such great matchups and fights with guys who were so talented because they had been boxing since their single number years. This era is more entertaining than the talentless klitschko era but nowhere near the 90s

Outside of the Golden era of Heavyweights during the 1960s and 1970s it was the best era of heavyweights in the history of the sport of boxing.

[champion4ever]

Aside from the four guys mentioned, but particularly Fury and Joshua, it's a very poor heavyweight division. The worst era was the Klitschko's, although Vitali was quite underrated.

There was a period there when Larry Holmes was champion when the contenders weren't top notch, but he was an excellent boxer with a great jab and skill.

The first half of the 1980s in which Larry Holmes reigned was considered by most boxing scholars and historians as one of the weakest eras in Heavyweight boxing history. Larry Holmes as great as he was; Was always underappreciated because he lacked the necessary charisma as he would always walk in Muhammad Ali's shadow.

Which is why Sugar Ray Leonard and the welterweight division emerged as the new Muhammad Ali and glamour division of boxing during that era. It wasn't until Mike Tyson emerged in the second half of the 1980s that put the Heavyweight division back on the map again.

[I have no ears]

Claiming he lost 1 fight is biased. He clearly lost the first one too. So he was defeated twice clearly, no need for a 3rd, only biased fans would say there is.

Officially only lost one fight, I've said many times that he should have lost the first, and in my post I claimed fury was the top heavyweight of this generation... So bias.