Strongest HW era of the 21st century

2010 the Ring rankings were terrible not the division because they felt the need to reaffirm the WBCs insane title matchups. Thats the thing with the Ring rankings if an alphabet body makes questionable choices they are going to help enable that by ranking their contenders high.

2005 I agree. Division had some nice lower depth though.

 

Not an elite fighter in his prime, certainly ain't at 41

 

2010 had both Kiltschko's and then Haye and Povetkin as top 4 IIRC.

 

I went 2000s but the era cutoffs aren't ideal.

Should be 04 - 2014 which is the Klitschko era

Then 14 - 2024 which was the AJ/Fury/Wilder era

Now 24- which is the Usyk era

 

2020s and it isnt particularly close. There is a reason Vlad and Wilder had loooong title reigns. They didn't have any worthy challengers.

 

I'm more complaining about the lower rankings. The 1,2,3 stuff is the easy part of making rankings where Ring messes up a lot is the lower picks where they have to pick a few guys out of many options. But they had guys like Adamek and Stiverne at number 4 at one point I think?

 

Tyson Fury saved the HW division in 2015 from a big stiff idiot and Usyk saved Tyson Fury from himself.

 

Usyk is the most skilled HW of the last 20 years.

 

Less defense, not able to react to shot she would've