Todays era is weak and watered down

[Beercules]

Sucks how dudes are so inactive today.

[Madison Boxing]

it depends what you mean. if you lined up all the fighters, there is quality in the sport, some real good fighters and some great matches could be made. Unfortunately matches between the world level fighters are all too rare, however looking pretty promising this year so far.

[Joe Beamish]

This isn't a great era, but it's not bad either.

Not great: Look at the HW division. Many eras were better than this one by miles. The greatest athletes in the world at that size no longer aspire to be boxers. Are there a few exceptions? Not really.

Not great:the profusion of belts, titles, promoters, and catch weight fights stop too many great match ups from happening soon enough and often enough.

Not bad: There are some exciting fighters and match ups at the lighter weights particularly. The WW division is stacked, really interesting. Though we SHOULD be seeing more match ups within this division without waiting forever.

MMA has shown itself to be a real competitor to boxing, and I think that the super-prominence of other sports (basketball and american football) have stolen away the greatest larger athletes, maybe for good.

[The D3vil]

Well yeah, there used to be so many more boxers licensed in New York City than there is in the ENTIRE WORLD today. Just think about that

Mike Silver wrote a good book about the decline of boxing

http://www.doghouseboxing.com/DHB/Tyler012010.htm

[SN!PER]

I would love to see a live fight of Dempsey, Armstrong, or Robinson.

[The Smash]

No doubt about it.

Last weekend a 4 division world champion fought. Who had this guy beaten to become a champion at 4 different weights? DeMarco? Malignaggi? Gavin Rees? Seriously who is his best win?

And this weekend the WBC heavyweight champion is defending his title in a fight he openly admits that his opponent is shit.

It's a weak era. It's what happens when boxers refuse to fight each other and dare to be great.

[iamboxing]

The fights between two feather-fisted average guys like Frampton and Santa Cruz were also mega-fights to some.

one of the most overrated fights ever, this era in boxing if you throw more than 20 punches a round it's a slug fest

this is the ***giest era in boxing without a doubt....weights *you go up" "no you go down", ppv numbers, posturing on social media...****ty fights with commentators screaming, "we;ve got a ward/gatti on our hands!"..."theyre fighting in a phone booth" when theres really **** all going on...no honour to wage wars and stick it out till the end..."his trainer was right to pull him out, his eye was getting bruised.." ...I hate this era of boxing....it stiiiiinks!!!

[iamboxing]

It's what happens when boxers refuse to fight each other and dare to be great.

amen brother....remember when the best fought the best and we had classic fights? fights that i watch still to this day. it's depressing

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Yes it is. You've got too many divisions, too many belts and too many cold wars between promoters, preventing quality match-ups. There's too much obsession about fighters staying unbeaten, sacrificing a lot of good match-ups for BS showcase fights with fighters who have been showcased to death. Beyond all of this, you have trainers who don't know what they're doing. No one teaches inside fighting any more. There are some excellent fighters out there, but they'd be much more challenged and shine their greatness through a lot more in a tougher era. No doubt.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Sucks how dudes are so inactive today.

This right here is killing it as much an any other factor.