Which division was the strongest in the history of boxing?

**pacmanis1** · 03-10-2013, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by Szef99

What do you think? Which division was the strongest. I'll go with 90's Heavyweight divison

How is 90's better than 70's? I think a good case could be made for 80's middleweight.

**Russian Crushin** · 03-10-2013, 06:36 PM

70s HW era > 90s HW era

**Sweet Pea 50** · 03-10-2013, 06:41 PM

Look at who was fighting at 160 in the 80's.

Hagler
SRL
Hearns
Duran

Not optimum for some, but that is a pretty killer list, in the modern era.

**Weebler I** · 03-10-2013, 06:42 PM

JWW 2000s

Jose Luis Castillo, Kostya Tszyu, Floyd Mayweather, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Zab Judah, Arturo Gatti, Manny Pacquiao...

Talk about star names.

**edgarg** · 03-10-2013, 08:55 PM

Originally posted by Szef99

What do you think? Which division was the strongest. I'll go with 90's Heavyweight divison

Traditionally the middleweight division has always been regarded as the strongest. Look at the welterweight-middleweight division when Robinson was fighting. It was far stronger than the 90s heavyweight div. They used to write about this very thing, and what emerged was that in the older days, a good middleweight could even fight well against a good light-heavy, or occasionally heavyweight. They used as examples Stanley Ketchell, Bob Fitzsimmons, the Gibbons brothers, Ted :Kid" Lewis, Mickey Walker and a few others. I think Young Stribling was one, before he became a true light-heavy.

**Scarcaztic** · 03-10-2013, 09:02 PM

Ali's HW years. Golden era of HW boxing.

**BafanaBafana** · 03-10-2013, 09:38 PM

1990-95 middleweights was a great era in terms of quality:

Roy Jones Jr, Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, Julian Jackson, Michael Nunn, McCallum, Benn, Eubank.

However, they didn't fight each other much (at middleweight).

Jones>Hopkins
Toney>Nunn
Toney>McCallum
Eubank>Benn

**Ryn0** · 03-11-2013, 12:06 AM

90's HW is very very good, you probably had more strength in depth than the 70's but individually the boxers might not have been AS good.

But Lennox, Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Vitali (late 90's) is a very good group of elite Heavyweights

Then the fringe guys like Grant, Tua, Ruddock, Rahman, McCall, Mercer, Moorer, old Foreman, Morrison, old Holmes, Bruno and Ibeabuchi.

Then a step below are guys like Akinwande, Golata, Seldon, Botha, Norris, Tucker and Hide.

Thats a very very very deep and strong group of heavyweights.

Which division was the strongest in the history of boxing?