Did we overlook a golden era ~2015-2025?

I am fairly young, so peak boxing to me was from 1990s to about 2017. Around 2017 is when the sport started going to ****, maybe a bit earlier.
Every year has had some excellent matchmaking and great fights, but overall the sport is worse than it was a decade ago.

 

Man wtf? The entire sport ran away from Crawford during this time. Golden period my ass.

 

Right before Mayweather - Pacquiao ending, we had the so called boxing cold war, with SHO and HBO in the US competing for ratings and putting on the best shows they possibly could. And a ton of other networks also showcased regular boxing, with the most famous being FNF on ESPN.

Wladimir Klitchko was not a fun heavyweight, most of the time, but he had a legitimate and active reign. Overall we had a lot more champions with long reigns in comparison to today.
The sport also picked up quite a bit in other countries, like Japan for instance. Yes, Japan had always produced world class boxers, but now more of the world had access to their fights as they happened.

The last decade this sport has gotten worse, same with MMA.

 

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He wasted his prime years fighting once a year IMO and also didn’t help he didn’t fight Wilder or Fury. But no, I agree he wasn’t a hype job.

 

This

 

Davis didn't draw with Pitbull. He won a clear points decision. And he didn't lose to Roach, it was a draw. (It helps to actually know the outcomes.)

Tank Davis also knocked out the then-undefeated and now reigning WBC Welterweight Champ Ryan Garcia.
Tank Davis also knocked out the then-undefeated and now reigning WBA Welterweight Champ Rolly Romero.
Tank Davis also knocked out the then-undefeated and recent WBC Welterweight Champ (who Garcia just won the title on points from) Mario Barrios.
Tank Davis, again, also beat the current reigning WBC Super Lightweight Champ Isaac "Pitbull" Cruz.

Basically, the top of the current welterweight division are all guys that posters here called bums back when Tank Davis was the first to beat them and knock them out.

His title run in a single division (lightweight), in hindsight, was one of the better runs in recent memory, in terms of quality of opposition.

So, time to change the "old" box you guys put Tank Davis in.

Davis, for all his problems, still has more wins over the current top guys than just about anyone mentioned in the first post.

 

A golden era of ducking and avoidance.

 

At this point I don't think the belts are even an issue themselves, or well, the fact that we have 4 major sanctioning bodies.

Judging has to move to AI, it simply has to happen. It likely wont be available for every card there is, but at least championship events would be covered.
Same day weigh-ins have to be brought back, and many of the filler divisions needs to be eradicated.

 

Except, officially, he did both. So saying he lost is pointless, because he didn't.

And the top of the junior welter and welterweight divisions are now positioned with guys he's already beaten or stopped.