How would you rate this HW era?

[Szef]

It's true, Old George would stop majority of the division.

No, he would not.

[Weltschmerz]

It's true, Old George would stop majority of the division.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Ring Ratings 2005

Chris Byrd
Hasim Rahman
James Toney
Lamon Brewster
John Ruiz
Monte Barrett
Calvin Brock
Wladimir Klitschko
Samuel Peter
Nicolay Valuev


Even that looks better than what we have now.

rahman, brewster, ruiz, barrett, brock, peter, and valuev, are not better than say fury, haye, arreola, stiverne, adamek, pulev, thompson,

chisora would have been giving hell in the mid 00s

[GRboxing]

rahman, brewster, ruiz, barrett, brock, peter, and valuev, are not better than say fury, haye, arreola, stiverne, adamek, pulev, thompson,

chisora would have been giving hell in the mid 00s

Rahman has wins over Tua, Lennox, and Sanders. Of course he is better than Fury, Arreola and Adamek.


Where are you from Adam?

[Weltschmerz]

rahman, brewster, ruiz, barrett, brock, peter, and valuev, are not better than say fury, haye, arreola, stiverne, adamek, pulev, thompson,

chisora would have been giving hell in the mid 00s

Exactly. At least we have some young guns today.

[bojangles1987]

Old Foreman gave prime Evander a fight and knocked out fighters multiple levels better than almost everyone at heavyweight today. James Toney beat better fighters than most the division today when he moved to heavyweight.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Rahman has wins over Tua, Lennox, and Sanders. Of course he is better than Fury, Arreola and Adamek.


Where are you from Adam?

Actually rahman has a tko loss and a draw to tua, both were very dubious though and many felt rahman was robbed in both,, and sanders and lewis were a prime rahman,,,

rahman was been done since 2002-03, and they were using the 2007 rankings,, that rahman was a shot fighter who couldnt even beat a fat out fo shape tubby james toney,,,,,

Compared to that era of 2003-10, i would take today's division,,,,
Old rahman, fat toney, ancient holyfield, lumbering mccline were like the top contenders then,,, I just hated that era,, sat thru so many horrible fights, like rahman-barrett, i was there live,, absolute worst,, any fres quendo or valuev fight,, anything that had larry donald or bryd in it,,, Golata was even given 3 straight title shots,,, that was a boring era,,,
Today's level of talent may have been similar to the mid 00s but at least todays guys bring some excitement,,,
Only dude then that brought any type of excitement was sam peter,,,

And to answer your question im from Illinois, USA,,, in between indy, chicago, and st. louis,,,, about 3 hours from each,,, Peoria il to be exact,, kinda of ****** city now but it used to be really cool....

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Old Foreman gave prime Evander a fight and knocked out fighters multiple levels better than almost everyone at heavyweight today. James Toney beat better fighters than most the division today when he moved to heavyweight.

agree with you about foreman,,, big george would ko chisora, wilder, mitchell, adamek, cunningham, fury, and probably haye,,,,

Toney was kinda a dud at heavy,, yes beat down an old holy,, but then draw with rahman, steroids vs ruiz, decisions over rydell booker and guinn,,,
None were great performances besides the holy fight,,,

toneys best performance was his first loss to sam peter,, i actually thought toney schooled peter, and got robbed,, the rematch was a clear peter victory,,, Toney had a chance but blew it with roids in the ruiz fight,,, if he was clean and won,, he would have probably landed a klit fight or byrd, etc...

toney 2003-08 would struggle vs guys and fury, wilder, klits -would be too big for his fat lil belly to even reach their chins,,,

He may beat an old adamek or cunningham, price, arreola

Toney would do in todays division exactly what he did 10 years ago,, get everyone excited and then ruin his big chances,,,,

[LoadedWraps]

How good or bad would you say this era of HWs is? I say it's pretty damn weak. The fact that a slow, clumsy plodder like Fury is a contender is proof of that.

Worst era in boxing history. /thread.

[Weltschmerz]

Old Foreman gave prime Evander a fight and knocked out fighters multiple levels better than almost everyone at heavyweight today. James Toney beat better fighters than most the division today when he moved to heavyweight.

Like who did they beat that were so much better than today's hw's?