Is this heavyweight division the best since the 90's?

It's simply the best division of all time.

 

HW devision got better once wlad got old, put 33 year old wlad back in the devision and all joshuas ,furys and wilders will be called bums

 

True. Imagine the unthinkable and Wlad beats Fury in rematch. The division will be the worst in history overnight :yep

 

It's the best ever. Anything before 90s doesn't really count because Eastern Europeans were not allowed to go into pro boxing.

 

Early 2000s was much better. Just because there's noone superior to the rest doesn't mean the talent pool is great.

 

I'll buy that, yes its getting interesting and enough good fights to keep it that way a good bit. I still see Wlad maybe winning a rematch and retiring after rubber match.

 

If competitive, equal-level fights mean a great fighters then are Ward & Gatti leading the ATG lists?

 

90's had atg's like Lewis, Holyfield, Bowe, Tyson, and a past his prime Foreman that beat a very talented, very dangerous undefeated southpaw in Moorer. The Bowe-Holyfield trilogy was one of the best trilogies at heavyweight or any weight, Bowe basically lost his prime in those fights he was never the same after. And with 2nd tier fighters like Mercer, Tua, Ibeabuchi, Rahman, Sanders, Morrison, Cooper, Briggs, McCall, Byrd, Maskaev, Golota, etc , if you think about it, 2 of those, Byrd and Sanders, have wins over prime Klitschko's. A faded Lewis has a close win over prime Vitali. So yea, this era has good talent, but 90's era is hard to beat. ALOT more talent than just Axel Schulz lmao

 

Ike was not second tier. Dude was legit.

 

its a wide open field. anybody can be champ. wilder and martin can lose their belts in their next bouts depending who they fight

 

The HWD will be better than this if the Klitschko brothers retire.

 

You bring that up as evidence that the 90s was a great era? It proves the opposite: The 90s was so weak that a fat 48 year old has-been could knock out a glass-jawed former LHW belt holder :deal

Imagine a 49 year old Mike Tyson made a come back today and knocked out unbeaten Deontay Wilder. What does that say about today's division?

 

You really can't compare the talent without getting a time machine and bringing someone back from the past and trying them out - I know the eye test is one thing, but a lot of people would probably say Wlad was ****e if they somehow didn't know him or his opponent were from just watching a fight.

I think there is a lot of legit talent in who are being sold short by people whose qualification to comment on their abilities are passing the bot test when signing into a forum.

We have a pretty competitive top 30 end of HW division right now - just enjoy it instead of trying to compare the uncomparable.

 

2nd tier might be a little generous. Ibeabuchi is ridiculously overrated by some, as your post demonstrates:deal

 

Wladimir>Lewis
Vitali>Holyfield
Fury>Tyson
Pulev>Bowe
Haye>Byrd
Ortiz>Ibeabuchi
Thompson>Grant
Parker>Tua
Joshua>Bruno
Povetkin>Golota

2010's wins H2H.