You can have your pick of the clowns at the top and get PAID. Big baby Miller and his tubby Polish buddy are going to be millionaires many times over. The sad thing is this could all have been avoided if Klitschko had finished a hurt Joshua, or Fury had not been robbed, or Wilder had actually KO'd Fury. ONE loss between the three big name heavyweights would force more hands. Welcome to the great heavyweight stalemate, folks.
Period between Marciano retiring and Ali starting. Dempsey's era perhaps? Maybe, Larry Holmes era when he was avoiding the top fighters, tv was still flooding boxing with money, and the belts had just started to multiply.
holmes rule might somewhat compare, but i dont seem to remember so many fat men and senior citizens back then.