Dear lord...we really are three or four years off of having another 70s or 90s heavyweight era

With the additions of Majidov and Nistor, I started thinking about all of the guys out there who will be hypothetically at or near their primes. I leave out Povetkin, Chisora, Ortiz and Pulev, who I expect to be done. There are probably about 20 or so other guys that some put on the list as dark horse candidates to contend such as the Morrisons or Willis Meehan, but I think this represents a pretty good list of the heavyweight division in 3 years.

Andrey Afonin
Hemi Ahio
Efe Ajagba
Mario Briedis
Daniel Dubois
Ivan Dychko
Junior Fa
Hugh Fury
Tyson Fury
Murat Gassiev
Filip Hrgovic
Michal Hunter
Bakhodir Jalolov
Anthony Joshua
Joe Joyce
Agit Kabayel
Adam Kownaki
Arslanbek Makhmudov
Charles Martin
Demsey McKean
Megomedrusal Majidov
Jarell Miller
Mihai Nistor
Joe Parker
Rostislov Pletcko
Iegor Plevato
Evgeny Romanov
Andy Ruiz
Vladyslav Sirenko
Tyrone Spong
Christian Thun
Evgeny Tischenko
Oleksandr Usyk
Dillion Whyte
Deontay Wilder
Tony Yoko
Oleksandr Zakhozhyi
Zhilil Zhang

Good God. We almost had a great division in 2015 before things went south again, but I think we are finally on the cusp.

 

Uh, a number of these are international amateur stars, a number established contenders and champions, a few are cruiserweight champs, and a few are mixed martial arts stars who may or may not succeed at the highest levels or boxing, but are at least tough fighting men who will make things interesting.