A detailed and comprehensive break down of the horrendous heavyweight era we are in.

Did you actually read the post?

Bloody hell...

 

You say its a poor fight when someone hammers the **** out of the other. Again I said how should the fight happen? Stand and go toe to toe? Wladimir is not fighting any Foremans so no it is not a poor fight.

 

No I'm not, perhaps I should be more specific

good fighters + good fights = a good era

The post-Lewis era hasn't delivered in terms of quality, depth of talent/skill or excellent fights.

 

Seeing Wladimir stick a jab in your face for 12rounds and the other guy not even bother to attack because he doesn't have a clue or is too tired does not equate to a poor fight? You've just tried to mock DrMo's theory but it has backfired.

 

It does equate to a poor fight. The point being that it isn't relevant.

 

The point is relevant because if Ali vs Foreman was a poor fight,and you're prolly with the 1% that think so then what do you make of Wladimirs fight?? Being alone and poor in a third world country with no indoor plumbing??

 

I'm not sure more Mike Mollo's are what we need. Having said that, in terms of eras being memorable, exciting fights are needed. But there's a potential difference between a good era in terms of quality, and a memorable era.

I will always say that heavyweight landscape isn't bad now, and is getting better. But from Lewis' retirement to 2008, it wasn't very strong. 03-06 is where it really suffered.

 

1% that think so?! Oopsy daisy...

 

When a champion can go in the ring stand there with feet planted and the other guy stands there eating his jab with no reply is a sign the era is WEAK.

 

You say other?? Who else says

 

I disagree with that, Vitali was at his best plus there was Rahman, Brewster, Maskaev, Sanders, Byrd, Ruiz, Liakovich etc.

Its the last 5 years that has seen the division really look poor imo, which incidentally has also been the same time Wlad has looked untouchable.

 

When the biggest fight in Klit vs Haye ends up like that you know the era is **** weak

 

I blame it all on Bob Arum.





I blame EVERYTHING on Bob Arum.






Even the weather.

 

The fact you mentioned those names is proof that every era is automatically weaker than the one before in the eyes of boxing fans. It's not done on purpose, just a strange mirage that seems to cloud us.

I'm sorry, but Tony Thompson (and Haye) is better than every single one of those fighters with the exception of a prime Rahman, and perhaps a prime Byrd. I love Byrd, but he's got cult hero status amongst boxing fans, who these days think he was better than he actually was.

Sanders wasn't all that at all. But I can't even count that defeat as a one-off necessarily for Wlad. It was just so.....dominant. Without hint of a fluke. But he has dominant victories over better fighters than Sanders either side of the defeat. So I don't count it against him much.

 

Imagine what would happen to Wlad if he lay on the ropes against prime Foreman like Ali did?
One round of Ali/Frazier is more exciting than Wlad's whole career.

They burnt more energy in one round than he does in a whole 12 round fight.