Comments Thread For: Today vs. 25 years ago: Which heavyweight division was superior?

[Haka]

Sincerely, Mama Usyk

Dubois > Bus Douglas

[Lomadeaux]

The fact you guys think any Heavy in the past 25 years is going to beat Usyk is laughable. Vitali is the only one go gives him major trouble.

[low blows]

Today's heavy weights will get slaughtered. Prime Mike Tyson sends Usyk to the moon

Prime Mike Tyson was literally around 88' the 99' version of Tyson would lose on points or get stopped by Usyk. Bothahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfefuQki1JI cuffed Tyson around in 99' when I saw that live at a sports bar I knew he was done as an elite fighter.

Honestly what would Usyk do to Botha?

[steeve steel]

Boxing is largely skills based, and current fighters seem to have regressed. Take a guy like Tank Davis, who only fights guys he knows he can beat. Does he beat Roberto Duran, who faced everybody with every possible style? I'm not seeing that in current fighters. They just don't fight often enough. There are a few who would be competitive in any era. Usyk, Inoue, Bam Rodriguez.

But if you look at training techniques, diet AND the fact today's boxers don't fight as often, then I would have to go with the idea that fighters today, evenly matched with those of the past, would have an edge.

[The D3vil]

Oh yeah, man.

Outside of Usyk & Fury, who'd be trouble for anybody ever due to their size & skill, there's just no way anybody else fighting today would have anything for prime-Lennox, Holyfield, Ike Ibeabuchi, David Tua, and even a past his prime Mike Tyson.

[BodyBagz]

This era is the shlttiest era of them all
Tyson's "youngest champ" era 2nd.

[champion4ever]

The 1990s; When boxing was still mainstream and popular. Had Hall of Fame fighters like: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis. Need I say more?

That heavyweight division was superior. I would also venture to say that the 1960s was perhaps the second greatest division in boxing’s heavyweight history.

Only second to the 1970s.

[TMLT87]

This era is the shlttiest era of them all
Tyson's "youngest champ" era 2nd.

You think they're worse than the 00s and first half of the 10s? for real?

I'm trying to think what the biggest HW fight was between like 2005 and 2014. It was such a dead era.

[TMLT87]

The fact you guys think any Heavy in the past 25 years is going to beat Usyk is laughable. Vitali is the only one go gives him major trouble.

Lennox?

[wrecksracer]

But if you look at training techniques, diet AND the fact today's boxers don't fight as often, then I would have to go with the idea that fighters today, evenly matched with those of the past, would have an edge.

I don't think any physical improvements would make up for the lack of skill. Most fighters today are one dimensional because they only fight people they know they can beat. If we were going by same day weigh in and 15 round fights, most of today's fighters wouldn't even be fighting at their current weight. Either we would be fighting under yesterday's rules, or the fighters of the past would have the advantages of today.