Do you think Anthony Joshua would be a top 10 heavyweight boxer if he competed in the 1970s?

Yes.

 

I don't think AJ doesn't have the skill or experience to be any wear near the op of that list

 

I stopped reading at "AJ beats that version of Ali". 1978 Ali was visibly showing the first signs of Parkinson's (or whatever he had). The thread is 1970's boxers. 1971-2-3 Ali toys with AJ, literally toys with him before ko'ing him. Frazier, Quarry, Foreman, Shavers, Lyle, Norton, Coetzee ( underrated here), Holmes beat him. That puts him at 10 AT BEST.

 

What the **** did you put in the translator?

 

Why not? With AJ, anything is possible. Overcoming adversity is the destiny of the brave and the birthright of champions. The soil of Africa is the flesh of his blood. His headphones whisper the poetry of ancestral warriors who overcame the crocodile spirits.

 

When you say "70's" this is an entire decade so there was a good amount of flux regarding competition.

Top 10 yes, top 5 or champion, depends on which year. There's certainly some years where I think he'd beat some type 5 guys, there's other years where I don't think he'd beat anyone in the top 5. The champs during the 70s I believe were Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Spinks and Holmes? He'd definitely beat Spinks and would have a good chance vs. Norton.

 

He would just another opponent.

 

The original post asks if Ali would be Top 10 in any particular year in the 1970s, not if he would establish himself as one of the Top 10 of the entire decade as a whole. So the fact that the Ali from the first three years of the decade would toy with AJ isn't exactly relevant when I'm arguing that AJ would have beat him in 1978.

While its pretty obvious that AJ would never have been the best fighter on the planet if we brought him back at any point in the 70s, I think its also pretty obvious that he would have beaten guys like Joe Roman, Randy Neuwman, Chuck Wepner, etc. so I don't really think its controversial to say that he would have been a top 10 contender if you brought him back to any particular year in the decade, since there was no single year where Ali, Frazier, Quarry, Foreman, Shavers, Lyle, Norton, Holmes, and Coetzee were all in or near their prime at the same time.

 

I see the 1975 and 1978 top ten lists. Ken Norton is number one, then number two on these lists.
I do not see how Joshua does anything but steam roll Ken Norton if they both fought.

Yeah Ken Norton is a better boxer than Joshua, but the size and strength of Joshua is something Ken Norton would never of dealt with before, and we all know who KO’ed Ken Norton.

The best of any era I would argue would be a top fighter in any other era.

 

Joshua has zero fight in his heart. If you can't see that I'd assume you don't either because it's as plain as day. Earnie Shavers would leave him sleeping in the ring with his trunks shat in

 

Got to remember Joshua would have been 2 inches taller and 15 pounds heavier than Foreman. He would have been a bohemeith for a 70s heavyweight and probably ices the lot of them, Ali, Frazier and Foreman included. People would have been saying the same thing about the 50s heavies Marciano, Walcott, Charles and Moore giving Ali and the 70s punks an ass whoopin. Old haters are fools who love nostalgia. Sports develop. Advances in boxing have come a long in 50 years. Joshua, Fury, hell, probably even Wilder beats every name mentioned.

 

You don't become a HW world champ with zero heart. You don't beat Klit after being knocked down and almost out with zero heart and you don't come back and beat and opponent who knocked you out 6 months before with zero heart.

 

Was roid usage prevalent in the 70s? If so then probably.