Side-by-side: 2020 vs. 2010, all champions - overall era strength contrasted

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Well, like I told George, this is a flawed but still 'pretty good' way to gauge respective quality in each time period, IMO. Sure you might have a couple of guys here and there who at one given time are the best in the division but don't happen to be holding a title - but that was equally capable of being true in 2010 as in 2020, and statistically in the fractured-belts era probably averages out to being true about the same amount of time any given year.

In other words, the overall results likely aren't being skewed that much by those couple of glaring omissions. For the most part a list of champs will give you an indicator of who the best were.

As for Usyk & Gassiev...

You guys realize that both of them are heavyweights now, right? Usyk has already made the jump and Gassiev has been very publicly outspoken about his wishes to permanently campaign there (in fact it was a lynchpin of his deal w/ Hearn). I'd be very surprised if either of them ever made 200lb again in their professional careers.

 

I disagree. In all of Wlad's title defenses with Steward in his corner, he looked better than in all the ones after Steward had died. Whether there's a correlation there or that just marks the period of his natural decline, who knows (my guess is a combination of both).

Five years can be quite a gulf when you're on the slide.

 

Probably. Best win =/= best performance.

 

Whoops, meant to post Głowacki's name in at CW. The light heavyweight WBO belt also happens to be vacant, that should read "#1 contender is Gilberto Ramírez Sánchez. I'll fix it now.

One detail slipping the cracks after working on that behemoth OP for an hour is pretty good.