You made it look closer i give you that. Maybe the top end talent were better but the depth - this decade looks better to me. I would take Pulev over Rahman for example.
Hey, I respect your opinion, and it makes for a great debate. But I think that that the top end talent was clearly better, as well as the overall depth. We've got some good fighters in this decade, and some great characters. But if you list today's top 20 guys, I think it looks weak. :good
Povetkin is now 29-1, with 21 Ko's. His lone loss was on points to Wlad. While he's not as good as Holmes or Tyson at their best, we are talking the 1980's here. Povetkin has been consistently good, and could have beaten Holmes in 1984-1985, or Tyson from 1988-1989. Likely the 3rd best man of the 1980s and good enough to win one of the major belts. Good enough to beat the #1 and #2 men on their slide years as well.
Povetkin is an olympic champ with an amateur record of 125–7, with all losses avenged. But some believe that he would be defeated by any drunken boxer of the 80s. Ok
For the Huck fight he weighed 229.2 For the Perez fight he weighed 231.75 Explain how he was in the worse shape of his life?