Greatest decade in boxing?

You nailed it.
I do the same puttin myself in the same timezone haha.
Hell,where you can you can even pick up a fighter’s autobiography and see exactly where his mind was at that point in time.

 

95-05 without a doubt. Every weight classes had massive talent.

 

The 80s and quite easily. World champions fighting on free tv.
ESPN had a great boxing series running WEEKLY.
USA as well.
You could watch fights every week on TV.
MSG had thier own series.
Boxing was everywhere back then and people actually followed it.

 

Look at what the 80s had:

Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler
Thomas Hearns
Roberto Duran
Wilfredo Benitez
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Michael Spinks
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Salvador Sanchez
Wilfredo Gomez.

I mean I could go on and on.

 

I'd say 90s. Prime Mike Tyson.

 

90s for me.

 

Its gotta be the 80s overall.

 

Prime Tyson was the mid to late 80's.

For me the 80's were the best. At the time boxing was so much bigger, and free to watch.

 

From a World point of view, during my lifetime, probably the 70's. World Title fights were rare and often televised in the UK, even without a British Fighter involved. Of course, the Heavyweights were in their golden period but we also had Monzon who boxed mostly in Europe.
European Title fights were also a big deal and there were some terrific fights at that level.
Domestically, in the UK, the 80's were great. British Title fights and eliminators and even Area Title fights were plentiful in the small halls and many were televised. The Fight Night series made stars of lads with day jobs like Kostas Petrou and propelled them to British Title level. They would often show good, six round prelim tear ups too. You could walk into any pub and chat Boxing.

 

Ali. Simple. I'm not even sure Tyson was popular. People were in awe of him for sure but he certainly wasn't loved the way Ali was.

 

I was 7 at the time of the Rumble in the Jungle and believe me, the World was on the edge of its seat. We were all frightened for Ali. My Dad woke me up for school with the words, "Ali won. Knockout". Ali wasn't a fearful or frightening character like Tyson. We were joyous that Ali won. George Foreman was probably the Tyson of his age, without being a sexual predator of course.