For me the 2010s due to the high quality of the video in almost all nations. 2020s are going really terribly despite having some of the greatest ever talents and great quality.
It was an incredible era. Every month getting the magazines was so exciting. Today things are not 10 percent of what it was then.
I think I miss really two things: the magazines and the original ESPN with Al Bernstein where you could get behind prospects and watch them progress.
everything was more exciting, although I was young, so that always adds to what we are excited about. If i were 57 years old then like I am now. I doubt I would think the same about that era. I would probably say the 50s was the best decade or the 40s. Top rank boxing was great, and Al Bernstein is one of the best, as was Gil Clancy and Alex Wallua . It was just a good time and a more simplistic time in boxing. I think Leonard complicated it with that Lalonde weight thing and 2 titles, but generally he and the 4 kings were what made it great. Their personalities and excitement in their fights made it so nice.
Agree 100%. But I used to be able to follow fighters as they climed the ranks say towards being a contender and you really can't do that too much anymore. Greg Haugen became a world champion and I used to watch him fight on ESPN all the time when he was coming up. Then eventually he made HBO/Showtime which was cool to watch. Now you gotta by the pay per view to follow some of these fighters making thier PRO DEBUT.
it is a totally different time and not as exciting. That Spence/Crawford fight would have been made and should have been for themselves and boxing.. Whoever wins comes out ahead, and so does the loser who is still remembered for fighting the best. I remember Haugen on ESPN. That night he beat Paul was shocking to me... Seems so long ago now..I even seem to forget the name of the guy he beat, and I knew him so well then. A Kronk fight. Jimmy Paul was it? And the 80s as well as guys like Hagler, Hearns, Duran and Leonard, had Benitez and Cuevas, Holmes, Tyson at the end.. Holyfield. how stacked it all was. Spinks.. What fighters. Sanchez,,, Chavez.. the list goes on and on...
1920's. Easily. Dempsey Greb Wills Walker Leonard Pancho Villa Loughran Tunney Berlenbach Kid Norfolk Tiger Flowers Jimmy Wilde Canzoneri Braddock Battling Siki Ted Kid Lewis Jack Berg Etc.
70's: Duran.. Foreman Ali Arguello Bob Foster Norton Frazier Bentitez Napoles Cuevas Zarate Palamino Gomez Olivares Monzon Saad Muhammed Cervantes E. Pedroza and at the end of the 70's you had Ray Leonard and Larry Holmes coming in.
it probably haze to be around 10s or 20s, you had a never ending stream of talent who fought constantly and you couldn't shake a stick with out hitting someone who boxed. I don't even need to go into some of the great names from the time because we'll be here for days.
80s for me. I grew up with it so maybe a bit of nolstalgia but when you look back at the talent it was absolutely loaded and on free tv as well! The 90s were pretty good too, a close second for me. I was too young for the 70s.
I think the 80's is a good call. The main objection would be how lackluster the HW division, which is the marquee one after all, was for the first half. But the lower divisions were on fire with stars like Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Holy, Spinks, JCC, Sanchez, Gomez, Benitez, Pryor, Arguello, Camacho etc with the best generally facing each other, giving us some classic fights. And let's not forget those that perhaps never catched the imagination of the public but was very good to great fighters: McCallum, Kalambay, Nunn, Curry, Whitaker and probably others I forget right now.