Best light heavyweight era

I practically worship that era of light heavies, watch the fights a lot.

 

I think it was the 70's. Holmes and Foreman were very competitive when they came back in the 90's. Foreman won the lineal title. You can also make a case that Holmes was better than Lewis against Mercer and McCall. I also gave Holmes five rounds against Holyfield

 

Good lineup

 

Light heavyweights Quinton.

 

The seventies was amazing. It was full of incredible fighters who fought eachother regularly, and had these fights were often always incredible. I wouldn't really distinguish the to, myself. I think having lots of fun, competitive fights is what makes an era memorable. Who wants to see an era of four mega titans but never fight eachother?!

From Galindez to Spinks, you had Saad, Eddie, Conteh, Lopez, Qawi, Pops, Scott, Rossman, Kates, Burnett, Ahumada, Fourie, Mwale, Parlov and the Davis brothers.

If there's a certain style you like, you'd find it in that era.

 

I think he'd do well. Foster was getting on by that era, and I think Jones has all the tools needed to beat a version of Foster who isn't gonna catch him with the left hook. Conteh is pretty much made for Jones, who devoured jabbers. Galindez and Eddie would be trying to out-do one of the best counter-punchers and quickest light-heavyweights ever. It wouldn't go well for them IMO.

Pops, as much as I love him, would take a beating of Jones IMO. Far too open, and made for Jones. Kates, Hutchins, Parlov, Rossman, Finnegan, Burnett, Cassidy, Scott, Rossman, Ahumada, Lopez and Cuello are all in a similar boat. Either nowhere near good enough, too easy to hit, or made to order.

Saad has a live chance simply because he hits like a truck. He likely wouldn't land, but he wouldn't stop trying so he does have a chance over the long haul, especially in a fifteen rounder. Wouldn't bet on him though.

 

From the mid 50s up until Foster, it was pretty terrible.

The mid 40s were when it was at its peak.

 

Well, the 50s was basically Archie Moore. Joey Maxim was just keeping the title warm for him. Harold Johnson was an excellent champion in the early 60s but the depth of talent wasn’t that great, for sure.

 

I don’t think mid fifties were bad. You had Archie Moore, Maxim, Patterson, Harold Johnson, Pastrano, Durrell. Although as the decade progressed it did lessen little by little the talent. Some of the better guys were moving up to heavy then dropping down.

 

Yeah, there were a couple decent guys but Moore was pretty much a part time champion who focused on heavyweights. Johnson was pretty old by the 60s.

 

Patterson was a kid, and had moved up by '55; Maxim was old and would win like 2 fights of 15 in that time; Durrelle was a journeyman; Pastrano wasn't even a LHW at this point, he spent more time at MW and HW, before moving down in the early sixties; Moore was a part time champ, fully focussed on heavyweight. It's actually an indictment on the division that Moore could get away with half arsing his title defences for so long, at such an old age. There was pretty much no other noteworthy contenders during this period, and the entire strip of the second half Moore's title reign serves as a transition period between two eras, with the former being far superior to the latter.

 

Excellent and fair points.