The 90s are a true golden HW era; HW 70s are nostalgia...

Not really a golden era. You had great fighters but the only fight that you could say that 2 fighters at their best fought each other was the first Holyfield v Bowe fight

 

That's true. FOTC and The Rumble happened when the public demand and hype for them were at their peak, though.

Tyson-Holy did good numbers, but at least my feeling at the time was that it was 5 years late. Don't think I was alone in that.

Bowe-Holy, the prime for prime match-up, really became a phenom afterwards. It was seen as the best challenger he'd had, but I don't remember is as hyped as some super showdown beforehand. Lewis-Bowe was more anticipated I'd say.

 

By everything's that's holy, I hope you're not suggesting that Ali was the one who was at his best, not Foreman.

And this "dumbest fight" might be one of the if not dumbest at least most generic takes here. I mean, he could have stood back and jabbed with Ali and maybe made it to the final bell (but only maybe) and lost a lopsided decision, but then the line would be that he choked and didn't go for it.

No one who complains about how stupidly Foreman fought really gives a clear alternative to what he actually should have been doing.

He couldn't jabbed with Ali like Norton could, that much was clear, and he sure as hell couldn't bob and weave and come up with tight hooks from underneath like Frazier, so what exactly was the right gameplan for him?

 

today it is, then definitely not. After Lewis-Tucker there was no demand for Lennox fights.

 

When did I say the 70s was the golden era? I just said the 90s wasn’t

 

I actually think both the 70s and 90s are both a little overhyped.

 

One 70's fight that didn't really happen when it should was the Ali-Frazier rematch. That should have happened after Ali-Quarry 2, at least one year earlier than it did.

 

I fall asleep whenever I watch Foreman vs Lyle

 

Yes, regularly prescribed against insomnia here in Sweden.

 

Trivia: Walcott passed away in 1994, the same year his record was broken by Foreman.

 

I think the fights could have been equally interesting, the sports level was lower... The 5 best HWs from the 70s eat the 5 best fighters from the 90s for breakfast. Perhaps the background of the 1990s was a bit better, but the top 5 HW of the 1970s was really something big.