Are people underrating the current HW era?

[Kezzer]

There has been talk of the current era being poor and not entertaining. Is this opinion beginning to change? The last few years have seen some absolute crackers. Here’s a reminder of some; I’ve rated in my personal opinion of order of entertainment:

Joshua vs klitschko
Fury vs Wilder
Whyte vs Chisora
Chisora vs Takam
Wilder vs Ortiz
Whyte vs Parker
Haye vs Bellew
Bellew vs Haye2
Joshua vs Parker
Joshua vs Povetkin
Klitschko vs Fury

Let someone go back to after that klitschko fight and top10 was probably:

1 Tyson Fury (England) 25-0
2 Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) 64-4
3 Deontay Wilder (USA) 37-0
4 Alexander Povetkin (Russia) 30-1
5 Anthony Joshua (England) 17-0
6 Luis Ortiz (Cuba) 25-0-0-1
7 Bermane Stiverne (Haiti) 25-2-1
8 David Haye (England) 28-2
9 Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) 23-1
10 Joseph Parker (New Zealand) 20-0

Now klitschko, Stiverne and Haye have dropped out with Dillian Whyte, Jarrell Miller and Takam; with Usyk likely to be knocking on the door of Pulev shortly.

For me that leaves a number of great match ups still to happen both at top end and across the top ten!

[Redd Foxx]

Prime Wlad or Vitali shyts all over any current HW.

[johnbook]

No greats since the era of Tyson, Holy and Lewis.

[JasonBoxing]

Not really. Joshua/Wilder/Fury will be the tier 2s in the 90's. Razer Ruddock/Mercer/ etc etc 90's Tyson
TIER 1'S
Bowe.Holyfield/Lewis will extinguish them

[Nash out]

Yes, definitely. Don't entirely agree with the order of your fights though. My view below

Joshua vs klitschko 5 a bit overrated on the whole, quite boring aside from R5,6 AND 12 which were great mind
Fury vs Wilder 1
Whyte vs Chisora 2
Chisora vs Takam 4
Wilder vs Ortiz 3
Whyte vs Parker 9
Haye vs Bellew 7
Bellew vs Haye2 8
Joshua vs Parker zzzzzzzzzzz 11
Joshua vs Povetkin 10
Klitschko vs Fury 6 on intrigue alone

[A.K]

Of coarse they are!! fury already proved years ago wlad ain’t shat and that’s even been proved a decade before that! The 90s were so overblown it’s not even funny all those dudes got exposed this era is much better. I agree that the 60s-70s era was the Mecca but not those bums in the 90s wilder, fury, Johnson, and even jarrell miller would have their way with those 90s bums.

[Earl-Hickey]

Prime Wlad or Vitali shyts all over any current HW.

Yeah and when prime Wlad and vitali were around it was Prime lennox easily ktfo both of them, TKO6

And when Lennox was around it was Prime Tyson and Holyfield woulda killed him

And when prime Tyson was around it was Ali would box his ears on

you get the point

[Earl-Hickey]

There's a tendency with the old school champions to only remember their greatest nights and moments and disregard the rest

every heavyweight champ in history has had some very hard nights against far worse fighters than AJ, Fury and Wilder.

They compete in any era.

[LoadedWraps]

Prime Wlad or Vitali shyts all over any current HW.

False.

1: The Wlad that lost to Fury was basically prime, if not prime then not far removed - let's remember prime in boxing doesn't correlate with age, it's about the damage you've taken and how you've taken care of yourself.

2: Even if you could argue it wasn't prime Wlad, we already know stylistically he fought the same throughout, and his style is one that ages well, so that point is MOOT.

Fury ethers all HW past, present, future. From Johnson, to LaMotta, to Marciano, to Ali, to Liston to Holyfield, from Foreman to Frazier.

[Earl-Hickey]

Of coarse they are!! fury already proved years ago wlad ain’t shat and that’s even been proved a decade before that! The 90s were so overblown it’s not even funny all those dudes got exposed this era is much better. I agree that the 60s-70s era was the Mecca but not those bums in the 90s wilder, fury, Johnson, and even jarrell miller would have their way with those 90s bums.

Most of the contenders in the 90s had crack addictions

I mean at lest with Fury it was "only" coke, and he wasn't actually on it in the ring.