This is the best heavyweight era ever

[slimshandy69]

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

Tyson got schooled by Danny Williams whom Vitali beat to a pulp the next fight.

Tyson is no where near any of these guys, his best win are burbeck(who beat a zombie Ali) Spinks whom was a blown up Cruiser and Bruno(who would have been embarrassed by the Klitsckos)

Face it, the 60's and 70's were midgets compared to this era..and it was only Unathletic Americans, now the rest of the world fights...

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Mercer was just a contender in the 90's..

he would beat the hell out of every heavy today not named klitcko..

same goes for razor ruddock, and bruno

This isnt the worst heavy division, but most certainly with 100% accuracy this is not the best ever,,,

its the 70's and the 90's... then everything else,,,,

[GRboxing]

Mercer was just a contender in the 90's..

he would beat the hell out of every heavy today not named klitcko..

same goes for razor ruddock, and bruno

This isnt the worst heavy division, but most certainly with 100% accuracy this is not the best ever,,,

its the 70's and the 90's... then everything else,,,,

Good post Adam, now get me back into green I have too much knowledge to be red here.

[Tommo1]

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

Another MYTH BUSTED!

In the past the CHAMPIONS WERE FAT! Today the champions are lean and six packed, there opponents are athletic and only SOME of them are fat!

Tony Thompson is a quality HW. The best from America atm anyway! He is just past prime. I think Thompson would have beat up the version of Tyson that Holy and Lewis fought!

[BTL]

Tyson got schooled by Danny Williams whom Vitali beat to a pulp the next fight.

Tyson is no where near any of these guys, his best win are burbeck(who beat a zombie Ali) Spinks whom was a blown up Cruiser and Bruno(who would have been embarrassed by the Klitsckos)

Face it, the 60's and 70's were midgets compared to this era..and it was only Unathletic Americans, now the rest of the world fights...

i agree, i love tyson but he fought bums and looked great and flashy coming up... he had a cool story as well.

[Tommo1]

Well Bruno, Ruddock etc were decent boxers. But Bruno always struggled and Ruddock got knocked out by Morrison, Tyson and Lewis!

Today they would fare roughly the same!

I wonder what Haye, Fury, Pulev etc would think about KOing those boxers. Paycheck yes!

[BTL]

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.

your going to 5hit on tony?

he is a good fighter, ill put him in any era and he will shine... very underated fighter.

[Tommo1]

i agree, i love tyson but he fought bums and looked great and flashy coming up... he had a cool story as well.

I do think he's special and he is a great boxer. I reckon the prime version would **** out some comp today but he isn't dominating anybody.

Shady is right, my old hero did in fact KO bums, he never KO'd a decent guy much bigger than himself! Today he would find himself in a much tougher situation. As he did in the 90's!

[Tommo1]

I have even heard arguments from the Russians that most of Wladimir's opponents are better than what Lennox had and although I am also a Lewis fan there is substantial merit to that argument. It can't be denied, this era is pretty bloody strong!

[BTL]

thing is there could of been some great hw but wlad and vitali ruined fighters.

look at the cotto and vargas situation for example... to me they got ruined, never the same after those fights.

wlad and vitali takes something out of these hw.