Favourite Heavyweight Era?

Agreed, I pretty much love late 50s all the way through 70s more than any other single era. I know it coul be considered 2,3, or even 4 eras, but I love the fighters from that stretch of time, I can't choose one individual point I like best.

 

I kind of preferred that 91--2002 era. The biggest drawback being so many terrific potential matches never being made. We were lucky to get 1 out of 3 fights that weren't pretty much a mismatch going in.

And we we had instead was top name guys fighting lots of #10-15 ranked guys instead. Beatable guy that was easy to hit got the fights a lot more than the who needs this guy for that amount of money type fighter.

But there was a ton of interesting fighters and included southpaws with pedigree and that was something never seen.

 

not saying it was the best era....just my favourite....the marciano/walcott/charles/old louis era

 

problem.is the main star, Tyson, wasn't what he was in the 80s, and he spent 4 years out of the game and Bowe didn't do much apart from th fight with Holyfield. The second tier were great too largely because they were inconsistent and unable to seem to put 2 good performances together.

 

Right. But what that does is to level the playing field. And me, I thought those long in the tooth guys never were a match for Tyson. Some folks did. Not me. I saw it as similar matchmaking as to what Holmes did earlier in the decade. Optimal selection process. The difference being the talent pool was shallower and Mike cleaned up that division in about a year and a half.

But the division at that time was susceptible to being diominated buy a guy.

 

For me,it'll always be the early/middle seventies. Ali,Frazier,Foreman,Norton etc.

This was the time I got seriously into boxing and feel glad to recall those times.

 

1982-1989 prime Tyson , a very good Larry Holmes, Whitherspoon, spinks
Bruno , Holyfield starting at hw , Pinklon Thomas, Tucker , etc

 

the 1970s were the best IMO

 

late 80s- late 90s.

 

70's was good, but I'll take the 90's. In the 90's I watched some good fights or at least some fights I'll never forget for various reasons... maybe it was a a competitive slug fest, maybe a one-sided beat down, maybe somebody did something crazy?

Some of the better fights I remember, or some that were at least entertaining-

Holyfield vs.

Douglas
Foreman
Cooper
Bowe I, II, III
Moorer II
Mercer
Tyson I
Lewis II

Tyson vs.

Douglas
Ruddock I, II
McNeeley
Mathis
Bruno
Seldon
Botha

Lewis vs.

Biggs
Ruddock
Bruno
McCall I
Morrison
Mercer
Golota
Briggs

Bowe vs.

Tillery I
Seldon
Cooper
Biggs
Tubbs
Coetzer
Hide
Gonzalez
Golota I, II

Foreman vs.

Cooney
Rodrigues
Coetzer
Stewart
Morrison
Moorer
Schulz
Savarese
Briggs

Holmes vs.

Mercer
McCall

Tua vs.

Ruiz
Wilson
Izon
Maskaev
Ibeabuchi
Rahman I

Morrison vs.

Tillis
Thomas
Mercer
Hipp
Williams
Ruddock

 

Late eighties early nineties.
Depth of talent...Tyson Holmes Holyfield Lewis Bowe Tucker Bruno Biggs Mason Williams Bonecrusher Tubbs Spinks Mercer Thomas Witherspoon Damiani Berbick Page Cooper Ruddock Morrison Foreman Moorer...etc etc

 

1966-1975, with the very peak of that era being the FOTC.

I doubt if we see that kind of era again.

 

2008-2013