Today’s Heavyweights are trash

[2fast2strong]

I remember in the 80’s people were saying that the heavyweights back then were garbage

This generation makes them look like all time greats

This era is literally the worst era ever without question

Boxing nowadays is almost unwatchable

[TMLT87]

The 80s HWs were legit very good.

[N/A]

I think the problem now is the lack of activity and the aim of the highest profit with the lowest risk, not their skills.

[Atypicalbrit]

The American heavyweights have been trash since the 1990s, outside of the US there are some phenomenal talents who would do very well in any era.

Klitschkos, Lewis, Fury, Usyk, AJ, these can stand with any of the ATG's and come away with some wins

Even guys like Povetkin, Parker and David Haye would do just fine in the 90s and be solid contenders.

In the 90s you had a 45 year old George foreman who could barely move as a heavyweight champion, and in the 80s it was crack heads, LITERALLY.

What you don't think Povetkin or Parker would have any chance against old man Foreman? Come on.

The US fans need to take their nostalgia goggles off, you lot have been crying and bleating about the heavyweight division since I started reading this board in 2008, thats SIXTEEN YEARS OF COMPLAINING.

The times you were running heavyweight boxing were no better than nowadays.

[lopetego]

Yes, they are

Fury is a fraud, Wilder and Joshua are overrated hypejobs, Usyk's very talented but too frail for HW

The rest aren't even worth mentioning

The Klitschkos were the last truly GREAT heavyweights

[N/A]

Yes, they are

Fury is a fraud, Wilder and Joshua are overrated hypejobs, Usyk's very talented but too frail for HW

The rest aren't even worth mentioning

The Klitschkos were the last truly GREAT heavyweights

Excluding the Greco-Roman wrestler Wlad.

[Citizen Koba]

Every generation has looked back with fond nostalgia on previous generations and called the current generation trash. Bit of a pointless argument to have though since you'd need a time machine to resolve it objectively.

[dan-b]

The Klitschkos were the last truly GREAT heavyweights

The Klitschkos were horrible to watch and feasted on a bunch of fat US hasbeens.

[2fast2strong]

The American heavyweights have been trash since the 1990s, outside of the US there are some phenomenal talents who would do very well in any era.

Klitschkos, Lewis, Fury, Usyk, AJ, these can stand with any of the ATG's and come away with some wins

Even guys like Povetkin, Parker and David Haye would do just fine in the 90s and be solid contenders.

In the 90s you had a 45 year old George foreman who could barely move as a heavyweight champion, and in the 80s it was crack heads, LITERALLY.

What you don't think Povetkin or Parker would have any chance against old man Foreman? Come on.

The US fans need to take their nostalgia goggles off, you lot have been crying and bleating about the heavyweight division since I started reading this board in 2008, thats SIXTEEN YEARS OF COMPLAINING.

The times you were running heavyweight boxing were no better than nowadays.

Sorry my man I don’t care where a fighter is from or what he looks like, I only care about watching skilled fighters in the ring

Todays heavyweights are just big, and far from skilled

They don’t pass the eye test

I don’t compare fighters from different eras because that is pointless

But I know I enjoyed watching heavyweight boxing in the past

Now I watch mostly the highlights on YouTube because I can’t sit through a live heavyweight fight nowadays

[pollywog]

Taking away the total fanboyism. I really like Parker's style under Lee and Lockhart.

He and Usyk are a boxer's boxer. I'd love to see the chess match as they try to figure out how to best employ their game plan and adjust on the fly when it gets negated by the other.

Most other heavies are fairly one dimensional, apart from Fury. He's in a one man herky-jerky bizarro alternate dimension all by himself.