Briggs calls the 90s the best HW era ever

The 90s era was great for Boxing.

 

Briggs is correct.

 

Isn't Shannon Briggs a power guy with 50 KOs who couldn't knock out George Foreman a few weeks shy of his 49th birthday?

That Shannon Briggs is going to tell us the 90s are superior to the 70s? Hell nah.

 

The 90s had better fighters no doubt… anyone really think Tyson, Holyfield and Lennox wouldn’t destroy Ali, Foreman and Frazier? Holyfield is the only beatable one for the 70s guys… Ali and Frazier could beat him but the other two wreck them - Briggs has a great point and the whole “Foreman competed in the 90s that’s proof!” Who’d he beat again? With a new adjusted style that was nothing like his original and an actual defence he managed to get MOORER lol oh but he survived Holyfield punching him in the face a lot and hit him back a couple times like everybody else…

 

Briggs wasn’t very good Foreman was a much more skilled boxer, it ain’t like GF beat Lewis, Bowe, Golota or anybody any good at the top in the 90s he “beat” Stewart and Moorer so it’s not really the argument you think it is.

 

Lewis got KO'd by Rahman and Mercer was all up in his grill there's no he destroys Foreman, Lewis would have to be a surgeon to win that. Didn't face a lot of slick movers like Ali either. Tyson would get destroyed by Foreman. Frazier could do a better job than Qawi and best Holyfield just off that

 

I think any of them has a very good chance against the other.

 

It was a great era, second only to the 70 s.

 

There was a lot of hype in the 1990s.
I think the 1980s heavyweight scene was just as good but the media was negative towards heavyweight when Muhammad Ali was no longer around. It took Mike Tyson to come along to get people looking at the heavyweights positively again. But that's because Ali was so popular towards the end of his career, there was no way the media were going to accept other heavyweights unless they brought something no one had seen for a while. The proliferation of titles didn't go down well so that added negativity. The 1978 to 1987 era was the first time there was so many splintered "world" titles. Two or three, which was considered terrible at the time. But nowadays the media actually glorifies the belt collections. The 1990s had splintered title from early 1993 to end of 1999. At one point, Botha (or Schulz), Seldon and Bruno were the "major" champions. Shannon Briggs himself was "lineal champion" allegedly and won it from 47 year old Foreman.
So I'm skeptical about 1990s heavyweight being better than 1970s or 1980s.

 

Losses / bad moments happen…Foreman almost died to Lyle and got outboxed by Jimmy Young, Ali lost to KEN NORTON debatably 3 times and Frazier is teeny tiny lol … Tyson wrecks Foreman don’t be silly Bonavena gave Ali a harder fight then that guy lol - Ali didn’t face anyone like Lennox it goes both ways, Frazier could indeed beat Holyfield I already said that NERD.

 

The idea that the guys who gave Foreman problems couldn't give Lewis issues to work with is goofy. Foreman wrecks Tyson, you clinch and force Tyson off to nullify him before tagging him while he's trying to reset. Tyson is also susceptible to uppercuts and comparing bad performances goes both ways. Ali has better pedigree and he probably poses more issues for Lewis than the reverse, but it's all hypothetical

Ken Norton is literally a better version of Tim Witherspoon lol

 

Fans were charged a lot more money to watch heavyweight boxing on television in the 1990s, so it made sense to hype it all up a bit above its true value. Most fan perceptions in boxing are based on marketing and presentation. The 1990s built off the popularity of Tyson in the late 1980s and the widespread introduction of pay per view. No one can actually list 10 top heavyweights of the 1990s without mentioning Tyson and Holyfield who already established themselves in the 1980s and were past their peaks long before 1996 (in Tyson's case his peak was arguably over by 1990).

 

Its because its the era when the people in power today were young adults. That and late 80s with Tyson.

Botha wasn't no bum. Seldon looks better every time I review his career and Brunos got one of the highest KO rates in history. If Shannon Briggs was such a fraud how'd he become a 2x champion?

The 80s I do think was better the 90s was more top heavy. For example Lennox, Bowe, Moorer, Holyfield and Foreman probably clean up shop in the 80s but the 80s had a better top 20 and 30.

 

Yeah well GGG hits harder then Young and could stop Norton hypothetically so get over it and accept the future of classic.