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Could Muhammad Ali have beaten fighters like Lennox Lewis, Usyk, the Klitschko brothers, Tyson Fury, Mike Tyson, or Holyfield? The honest answer is ?...We don’t know. Let’s take it further: could Ali have defeated the gatekeepers of any era? Fighters like Chisora, Brewster, Povetkin, Tua,...

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As I already said above, nostalgia is a seductive liar...but anyone with a shred of honesty must admit that it's easy to dismiss any boxing era. I don't think it's cliché to say that the most effective lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Knowing this, I see no rationale for exclusively dismissing...

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On the contrary, the HW division of the 1980s and 1990s is highly overrated—mainly because Americans held a near-monopoly on it, as much of the international competition was banned from participating. During the Cold War, boxers from the Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc, Cuba, and other communist-aligned...

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So what happened ? Where are american HWs at ? Well, they're still here. it's just that the talent pool is way more diverse today. Oh! and bigger sponsors!(way more money) Boxing sponsorships today are considerably bigger and more diverse than in the 1990s. But the argument, the excuse is that all...

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Is the era considered weak just because there are no dominant American heavyweights? What’s so inherently special about American heavyweights, anyway? And where have those legendary American HWs gone? MMA? The NBA? The NFL?

Take a look at the NBA. Who's currently the best player?...

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It's easy to dismiss today's talent pool, but we could just as easily do the same for every era.

George Foreman holds the record as the oldest heavyweight boxing champion in history. His comeback is one of the most remarkable in boxing, especially considering he had been retired for a decade...