We've just had the third best heavyweight era in history

Thanks for not including Joseph Parker among the "champs"

Nice one.

 

I am Tyson Fury I can call anyone anything I like except the lord almighty.

 

A lot of B to C level guys.

 

Agreed:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...-decade-in-heavyweight-boxing-history.725731/

By the way, don't forget Dubois, Kabeyal, Hrgovic, Wallin, and Wardly.

 

Joe is one of the brightest spots. I don't care at this point if he fights Usyk or not...he's got a legacy of his own and is a couple of good wins off of being a minor great himself. If he does get his hand on another belt and establishes a second title run...sky is the limit.

 

It's not a slam dunk by any means, but it was a really good era. 1960s might be better?

You had Patterson becoming the first person to regain the title and rematching Johansson. Then Liston with his double first round ko of Patterson. After this Ali beating Liston twice and all of his pre-frazier work (Moore, Patterson, Cooper, Chuvalo). Finish it up with Frazier starting to ramp up his career by beating Quarry.

The 60's doesn't really have it's own heavyweight identity though. The first 5 years were the guys from the 50's finishing their career. The last 5 was the future stars of the 70's finishing theirs.

 

By the way, my top 15 of the post-Klit era...

Usyk
Fury
Joshua
Dubois
Parker
Wilder
Ruiz
Whyte
Povetkin (because his best was before)
Kabeyal
Hrgovic
Zhang
Joyce
Chisora
Hunter

That is a good line-up.

 

Klitschko era:

Wladimir Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko
Alexander Povetkin
Chris Byrd
Sultan Ibragimov
Corrie Sanders
Ruslan Chagaev
Oleg Maskaev
Samuel Peter
Eddie Chambers
David Haye
Tony Thompson
Nikolai Valuev.

This era bar Usyk does not have more talent than the Klitschko era, it's an illusion based on recency bias. Povetkin as an old man was outboxing aj before he gassed and KO'd Whyte. Chisora in his prime lost wide to an old Vitali with 1 arm, lost to Haye in 6

 

1980s is often rubbished as a Heavyweight era but I think the names in that era are better than the fighters you mentioned.

1980s had.....

Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Michael Spinks
Tony Tucker
Pinklon Thomas
Gerrie Coetzee
Gerry Cooney
Greg Page
Tony Tubbs
Michael Dokes
Mike Weaver
Tyrell Biggs
Frank Bruno
Trevor Berbick
Carl Williams
Buster Douglas
Bonecrusher Smith

If you pitted all these fighters at their best vs the fighters you mentioned 1980s comes out on top any day of the week.

 

AJ isn’t a bum. Come on. He was a fairly good big man. Got beat by whatever you’d categorize Ruiz as (massive wasted talent?). Got beat by the best of the era, and ran it close that second time. Got blasted out by who appears to be turning into a really good big man.

most eras, AJ grabs a belt. An athletic big man with decent skills and big power is always going to be an issue.

 

The eras with frequent title defenses and a single belt were comparable. 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.

Johnson/Jeffries era had the Color Line, and what those guys did was barely classifiable as boxing. Dempsey's era was still segregated. Also, Dempsey could choose to defend (or not defend) against whomever he wanted.

50s into early 60s were fun, but the division wasn't exactly swimming in competition.

Late 60s to mid-70s were genuinely a golden age. Modern heavyweights would probably beat the guys back then, but the sport itself had reached its zenith in cultural power. Free fights with globally recognized talents fighting each other regularly. One champion, too, after the unifications of Frazier's reign. At least in the States.

All that said:

Right now, we are living in one of the better eras. We have one champ. We have tons of money making the best matchups. Life is better than any time since the late 70s. Enjoy it, for crying out loud.

 

No.