This is the weakest era in boxing I've ever seen

LMAO.

 

No one said that in the 90s.

 

Hrgovic has a nobody wants to fight him problem. He’d fight anyone; they don’t want to fight him. His mediocre resume isn’t really his fault.

 

Then there needs to be some way to force guys to fight him. It's bad for the division if lots of talented guys can't land big fights

Kabayel is another guy who wasted most of his prime

 

Kabayel is the most worthy challenger to Usyk. He’s sitting around scratching his ass this weekend while Rico somehow gets a title shot. Ain’t Kabayel’s fault.

 

During the "heyday" of boxing—which historians define as the Golden Age of Television Boxing from 1948 to 1960—boxing wasn't just a popular sport; it was the most heavily broadcast content on television.

At its absolute peak in the early 1950s, major networks broadcast up to 5 or 6 prime-time network boxing cards every single week, resulting in roughly 250 to 300 major fight events televised nationally per year.

Today, boxing is much less popular.

Due to supply and demand, much less athletic talent ends up in boxing but instead goes to basketball, baseball, football etc.

That is why boxing is waning and generally speaking the boxers are nowhere near as good as the golden generations. Be thankful we still have had the opportunity to watch some great talent: Usyk, Inoue, Lomachenko, Crawford, Beterbiev, Bivol, etc

 

Agreed. But not with the 'nowhere near as good'. Fighters back then drank oxen blood and smoked cigarettes...
There was a point in time when the concept of the jab wasn't invented yet.
And generally the training attitude, support from specialists in nutrition and training science and so on was lacking.
It was the same with other sports. Soccer for example. Noone would think a team from the seventies could compete with a current one.

But from a societal standpoint and it's cultur impact, current boxing cannot compete with history.

 

Sports media coverage nowadays is so in-depth, that we know a lot about fighters, that in yesteryear would be relative unknowns. This is good and bad. Good, in that everyone eats, bad in that certain fighters have probably been elevated to levels that they're simply not at, because of media hyperbole.

Hard to judge an 'era'. When has boxing been legit great through all the divisions? I'd say the past 10 years have been fairly good across the board, the next 10 maybe not, who knows.

 

Yeah, a lot of responses on this thread are weird imo. Way too much attention is given to the top 10 P4P, the HW division and not much elsewhere.

Just because we have the occasional super fight, good HW match ups (I don't think the actual Heavies are that good for the most part, they're just big) and some actual elite P4P level fighters doesn't mean the era is strong. Every era had their Usyk, Inoue, Crawford, Bivol, Bam, Shakur and Benavidez. Most of the time there were a dozen other guys of that caliber, and if not, the divisions were filled with lots of very, very good fighters.

Imagine how the forum would react if we had the 60s-70s talent pool today. Ali, Duran, Monzon, Napoles, Griffith, Frazier, Ortiz, Saldivar, Arguello, Benvenuti, Rodriguez, Foster, Marcel, Olivares, Canto, Laguna, Harada, Jofre, Tiger, Cervantes, Zarate, Pintor. That's just the surface. Posters here would collectively cream their pants.

 

No way to intelligently argue otherwise,,boxing is on life support. Today's mommy's don't want their little boys boxing and since daddy's are primarily wusses these days the kid plays soccer or video games and when he's grown and gets in trouble he calls momma. There are still some fighters coming out of eastern Europe and Russia but American boxing is receiving CPR at this moment.

 

Boxing is on life support in the U.S. , available males ? These American males are playing soccer , basketball, and primarily video games. When I was a kid we all had boxing gloves ,sparred and fought often , played football , basketball and raced anything that would move.
I see kids today playing in the neighborhood today riding around on golf carts , playing video games. and you see a thin framed 5'10 inch teen ager who has a spare tire around his midsection eating candy and weighs 220 pounds. There has been a change in cultural philosophy, In the 60's + 70's if someone picked on you , you were told to punch them in the mouth, and you learned how to fight for just such an emergency. Now? I've heard women tell their kids to tell the teacher if someone is picking on you,,,Geez! Want further proof?
Some men pay to watch women fight,, it's sickening

 

What does this mean?

 

Protect your 0 and not fight outside your country..