This is the best heavyweight era ever

[GRboxing]

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[SN!PER]

Prime Ali would whoop them all

[torosboxing75]

Prime Ali would whoop them all

Non of these guys are even as tough as prime foreman.

[Tommo1]

Agreed. This is the strongest era and it's really just a no brainer to anyone employing that thing America lost long ago along with it's champs...

COMMON SENSE!

I for one am so glad I don't live in the eras like the so called golden age.

Feather fistedness, fighters so weak they couldn't knock out an average school kid with one punch.

Rudimentary skills, guys born too early to learn how to keep opponents at the end of a jab, brawling inside taking shot after shot until they're exhausted and punch drunk. That's not great boxing!

Today there's skills, athleticism and power like never before and all in the same fighters too. Now everyone is s slugger, everyone is a technical boxer, and the ones that aren't have to be ****ing tanks to keep up and compete with that!

Tyson would definitely be able to **** with today he was very special and meets the above criteria well. But what opponents did Tyson KO in 1 round? Tyson never KO'd an opponent at all who was as decent as one of todays opponents and he struggled with opponents 6'4" plus who weren't absolute bums. Facts are facts!

Excellent thread, someone had to shine a light through the fog of delusion. Well done Shady!!

[GRboxing]

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[Tommo1]

I take my hat off to Tyson, that's where the fun started, to the 90's greats as well who brought me up, they were all competive with what's around today, the first generation of boxers when boxing had become a completed sport and completed art.

I find pre 85 boxing virtually unwatchable unless I'm forced to for educational purposes. How it can be said to be better is beyond me completely!

It's amateur boxing without the headgear!

[FerFal'sStepDad]

I honestly think all the Heavyweights today would get KO'd in the first round by prime Mike Tyson.

Love Tyson and I agree that we seem to get caught up in the nonsense that he was overrated. Tyson in his prime would have served all of these so called giants.

[BTL]

i tend to agree, people act there wasnt always some out of shape heavywieghts.

[FerFal'sStepDad]

Agreed. This is the strongest era and it's really just a no brainer to anyone employing that thing America lost long ago along with it's champs...

COMMON SENSE!

I for one am so glad I don't live in the eras like the so called golden age.

Feather fistedness, fighters so weak they couldn't knock out an average school kid with one punch.

Rudimentary skills, guys born too early to learn how to keep opponents at the end of a jab, brawling inside taking shot after shot until they're exhausted and punch drunk. That's not great boxing!

Today there's skills, athleticism and power like never before and all in the same fighters too. Now everyone is s slugger, everyone is a technical boxer, and the ones that aren't have to be ****ing tanks to keep up and compete with that!

Tyson would definitely be able to **** with today he was very special and meets the above criteria well. But what opponents did Tyson KO in 1 round? Tyson never KO'd an opponent at all who was as decent as one of todays opponents and he struggled with opponents 6'4" plus who weren't absolute bums. Facts are facts!

Excellent thread, someone had to shine a light through the fog of delusion. Well done Shady!!

I personally think the Klits are on PEDs. Not a fan of this Era.

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i tend to agree, people act there wasnt always some out of shape heavywieghts.

and the skill level? It's pretty clear that today's heavyweights aren't nearly as skilled, fast, intelligent, or well rounded as any era of the division in the past. Sorry, but it's a very poor division and it has little to do with Americas struggles. No one really complains about the middleweight division that isn't dominated by Americans. Heavyweights are just pathetic right now. You know your division is poor when a fighter like Tony Thompson is a top 5 fighter.