If you could choose one year...

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  1. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    If you could choose one year in the history of the boxing to bring to the modern weight divisions, which year would it be?

    So lets say someone gave you a time machine, that lets you transport all the boxers from a specific ear in history to our times. Every boxer would be just as developed as he was that very year.


    I think I might pick: 1950

    Veteran Ray Robinson
    Veteran Jake Lamotta
    Veteran Willie Pep
    Young Liston
    Developed Marciano
    Prime Charles
    Veteran Joe walcott
    Prime Moore
    Saddler
    La Starza

    and many more.


    What about you guys?
     
  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    That's a good one, but i'd maybe go back a bit further to 1944

    Prime Charley Burley
    Prime Holman Williams
    Prime Lloyd Marshall
    Prime Joe Louis
    Prime Sugar Ray
    Prime Willie Pep

    Cocoa Kid, Jack Chase, Eddie Booker, Ike Williams, Beau Jack, Chalky Wright, Fritzie Zivic, Jackie Patterson, Manuel Ortiz, Ezzard Charles
     
  3. MAG1965

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  4. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    I don't know..
    The 50s have Liston, Robinson, and others, but the 60s-70s have other great fighters like Ali, Foreman, Frazier, and others.
    I would've loved to watch Ali nowadays..
     
  5. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    1925 or abouts
    Jack Dempsey
    Gene Tunney
    Harry Greb
    Mickey Walker
    Benny Leonard
    Johnny Dundee
    Pete Herman
    Jimmy Wilde
    They didn't call this the "Golden Age "of boxing for nothing..And what contenders ?