Can 1982 be viewed as the apex of the sport of boxing?

Wasn't Chacon- Edwards fight of the year. & I'm going out on a limb- Mancini- Frias rd 1. Round of the year? Awesome.

 

yeah. Imagine, Pryor - Arguello, Gomez - Pintor weren't fight of the year!! That was an amazing year.

 

Not exactly sure. but Chacon- Edwards & Limon- Edwards were. but not sure of the years.

 

it was like a summit/ everest for boxing cos it was all down hill with the start of multiple sanctioning bodies, 12 rounders, network tv losing interest

 

I bet one year between 1932 and 1936 is at least up there. It´s too late and I drank too much already to dig deep there but that was a great time for boxing as well.

 

Boxing prostituted itself with the reduction of championship rounds to 12 from 15. This was done for the sake of fitting into television time slots...being a ***** for tv..and boxing always got ****ed without being kissed....than for any percieved reasons of safety...as in the death of Duk Koo Kim...The touchy-feely, do-gooder *******s like Jose Suliaman are responsible for this. Damn those powers that be that sold boxing's birthright for a mess of pottage. The 15 round championship distance was a part of modern boxing's DNA..I know you had some stars in the 80's, but the 70's eclipsed the 80's IMO..and still retained the vestiges of boxing's great past...15 round title limits...tv be damned...Wide World of Sports and CBS Sports Spectacular never had any problems televising complete 15 round title bouts back then on Saturday and Sunday afternoons...ahhh, those weekends of big name title defenses back in the 70's..it ensured that boxing was in the public's eye and attention span. If you had things today as they were in the 70's, you wouldn't have inferior, *******ized entertainment spectacles like UFC and MMA daring to compete with boxing.

 

1964.

Ali, Liston, Patterson, Williams, Machen, Folley, Terrell, Chuvalo

Pastrano, Johnson, Mina, Torres, Olson, Cotton

Giardello, Tiger, Papp, Benvenuti, Archer, Mazzinghi, Carter

Griffith, Rodriguez, Stable, Ortega, Gonzalez

Ortiz, Locche, Hernandez, Charnley, Lane, Urbina

Saldivar, Laguna, Ramos

Jofre, Harada, Medel, Pimentel

Kingpetch, Burruni, Accavallo

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****, this still doesn't cut it. Back soon.

 

Not a good year for Duran

 

I certainly consider 1982 to be boxing's final high water mark. Ali really helped revive the sport with his ascension back to the top in 1974. During 1976, the movie Rocky and the stunning success of the 1976 US Olympic Boxing Squad laid the groundwork for much of the popularity boxing enjoyed in 1982.

Red Cobra and Titan1, thanks fellas, for sparing me the need to get back on the soapbox about the demise of the championship distance. It's a pleasure and something of a lazy relief to be able to sit back and read as others do the work and carry the load expressing my views on the matter.

Our good friend and master wordsmith Stoney came up with an interesting case for 1949 early last year. He has yet to pop his head in here, and with three pages of replies already in the bank, time's a-wastin' so I trust he'll forgive me if I preemptively insert this contribution of his into this discussion. (Besides, he's always a quality read, and this might jog some memories):

http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/6627/1949-perfect-storm-pugilism

 

BY FAR the best year of my life in boxing. 50 years. And if you look in the almanac, the year 1982 is the same daywise on the same days (meaning the days fall on the same dates ex:Nov.12, 1982 was a Friday and the same for this year) as this year. So when Margarito fights Pac. on Nov. 13th, it will be exactly the same day in the same year as Mancini-Kim in 1982.

 

What about 98-00

HW - Lennox/Holyfield/Ibeabuchi/Tua/Tyson

LHW - Jones Jr, DM

SMW - Calzaghe

MW - BHOPs

LMW - Vargas/Winky

WW - DLH, Tito, Whitaker, Quartey

LWW - Tyszu

LW - Stevie J/Mosley

SFW - Mayweather

FW - Hamed

SBW - MAB/Morales/Jones/Mkkiney/Bungu

 

chacon limon dec11 82/ edwards may 83