How would a guy like Deontay Wilder, Oleksandr Usyk, or even Tyson fury match up against heavyweights in the 60s and 70s? Do you think these guys would be ranked and who would you compare them to?
Modern heavyweights are Too big Too strong Too sexy Too weird They'd give Usyk some tough great fights though. Not going to pepper pot Frazier, Ali & Foreman as easily as Chisora or the bodybuilder. Wilder does his touch of death on anyone not protected by god who are unable to quickly dispatch him.
60's Usyk vs Floyd Patterson winner Floyd Usyk vs Liston-----winner Liston Usyk vs Ali winner Ali Usyk vs Ingo winner Usyk Fury vs Patterson winner Fury Fury vs Liston winner Liston Fury vs Ali winner Ali Fury vs Ingo winner Fury. Wilder vs Patterson winner Floyd Wilder vs Liston winner Liston Wilder vs Ali winner Ali Wilder vs Ingo winner Wilder
The top guys probably do quite well. Those decades get romantacized on the whole but at any given time there were probably 5 guys ranked in the top 10 who weren't anything special. Lyle, Shavers and Norton would be considered top 10 heavyweights for the entire 70s decade and I'm not sure I'd pick them to defeat Wilder.
They would all have fit into the top 10 rankings, where they’d most likely all have had mixed results, simply depending who they’d fought and how they’d have matched up on the night stylistically. You had: Sonny Liston Floyd Patterson Muhammad Ali George Foreman Joe Frazier Ken Norton Larry Holmes There were obviously many more too. There would have been some fantastic match ups. Choose each guy, and then see what you think the outcomes would have been for each one.
