Is today's Heavyweight era weak?

Just compare it with the **** eras from the 50's to the 90's when it started to be somewhat Good.

 

More entertaining than Welterweight.

 

No. I bet this era would be most competitive than any other since 60's

 

No, not at all.

It has atleast two ATG HW talents in Fury and Usyk.

AJ and Wilder are as good as you'll get for consistently top 3 rated HWs over a decade.

 

This has been a great HW era, better than the 1990s. You're going to get a full unification in a functional round robin among the top 4. Fury and Usyk each beat their top opponent twice, decisively. And everyone fought in their primes or very close to it. That's really what separates this era from the 90s.

I think the next wave looks dire. Hrgovich doesn't have it, Yoka obviously is a non-factor, and Jalolov is good not great. Joyce is too old, and Parker and Whyte have a lot of miles on them at this point. There are some good talents like Jared Anderson, but I was much more excited about the future of HW back in 2014 than I am now.

 

I think we should appreciate this era.

Fury, Usyk, Wilder & Joshua may not be the four horsemen of the 80's, but they're fighting each other. Fury vs Usyk is going to happen. Wilder vs Joshua will likely happen in the future. All 4 guys are ATG or on the verge of ATG.

Honestly, what more can you ask for? The top 4 guys of this era are fighting each other and they gave us some of the most exciting match-ups in the last few years.

 

No its a very strong era. We used to think there was a big 3, Wilder, Joshua and Fury and now we have a big 4 with Usyk. Great era.

 

Heavyweight boxing is good right now.

This era started with Fury, Joshua, Wilder, and Parker. Once there was the unknown of who of these four would be the last man standing.

Joshua beat Parker then there were 3 left.

Fury and Wilder had their epic war. After that Fury was the King of the division.

Meanwhile Joshua lost to Ruiz and appeared maybe not the be the best of class.

Usyk emerged and Joshua tried to redeem himself but lost twice to Usyk.

Now we are getting the final chapter between Usyk and Fury.

Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Usyk, and Parker all looked like potential Heavyweight rulers at some point and they have actually been fighting each other.

For all the hate Joshua is getting right now last fight was a very high level boxing match and both the winner and the loser showed great skill.

 

Besides Fury and Usyk who is left worth mentioning ?

Not the bodybuilder or the one trick pony.

 

Of course it is look how Joshua is rated on here. Look how many belts and title defenses he had. Fury is also a donkey, the guy ran away went on a bender in fear of Klitschko. Klitschko would have smashed him in the rematch

 

I believe so. The only way is find out is to compare and contrast with the level of Heavyweight boxers form another decade.

Most people consider the 1990s to be a weak era for Heavyweight boxing. A similar top 20 for that decade would look something like this:

Lennox Lewis
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson
Riddick Bowe
Buster Douglas
Vitali Klistchko
Oliver McCall
Michael Grant
Frank Bruno
Razor Ruddock
Carl Williams
Ray Mercer
Larry Donald
Henry Akinwande
Herbie Hyde
George Foreman
Željko Mavrović
Pierre Coetzer
Francesco Damiani
David Tua

Which decade do you think is stronger between the two?

I'd place David Tua ranked around 20th place on the 1990s list and I'd favour him to beat everyone form this decade except Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Usyk and Joyce.

 

The heavyweight champion is a cruiserweight. What do you think?

 

Heavyweights pre 80's were mostly cruiserweights.

 

Today's era begins with the departure of Wladimir Klitschko from the scene.
It could have been one of the best eras of heavyweights if a few things hadn't happened:
1. not happening the best fights (Tyson Fury - Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury - Anthony Joshua, Anthony Joshua - Deontay Wilder...).
2. Corona pausing.
3. Tyson Fury's retirements.

Thus, in one of the best Heavyweight eras, they had the opportunity to be champions: Bermane Stiverne, Joseph Parker, Charles Martin.

With that logic, the same can be concluded for the heavy category of the 90s and the case of Evander Holyfield.