The 1970's Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing..

That pretty much sums it up for me.

 

it was the best era because, there were 4 exceptional talents. frazier, ali, foreman and holmes. and they fought each other, thats why it's the golden era.
the 90s had exceptional talents too, and the fought each other, lewis, holyfield, tyson.
the 80s had 2 exceptional talents, tyson and holmes, but they fought to late.
the 00s had/have 2 exceptional talents, a great talent, but the didn't fight each other, klitschkos and byrd, yeah but the two best never fought. and the main problem the talent gap between the best two and the rest is way to wide.
in all the other eras, especially the 70 there were great talents, too, like shavers, norton and so on, and the talent gap was not that wide apart. thats the difference and they fought each other

 

1964-1974 had a ton of talent.

 

The Klitschkos, Holmes, Foreman could all be called 90s fighters :good

In fact (!) Holmes, Lewis, Tyson, Holyfield were all fighting in the 00s as well as the Klitschkos. Not a bad decade on paper...?

 

:good:good:good

 

great era,great fighters+great match ups.my dad still talks about it every other day but for me the 90's were nearly as good,maybe just as good.era,fighters,the match ups perhaps only slightly behind.but we also had great depth in 90's.4 great fighters and plenty of really good guys,just like there day

 

It was a great era.
Seemed like most fighters in that era, were all game, and in good shape.

 

1970s HW boxing benefits from a lot of resons. It first era televised in colour, ali was an icon and boxing was free on tv.

Ali was a 60s fighter. that he was in beter fights in the 70s had more to do with him declining to the level of the next generation of contenders who gave him more competative fights than the 60's guys.

From 1976 ali was a poor champion so thats 4 years without a domanant champion who by then was barely the best heavyweight in the world.

the era was entertaining but if you match the contenders together from other decades i wouldnt say the 70s top ten always beat the others.

 

You have to add the 60s here man. You can't call the 70s the golden age of HW boxing without adding the 60s to it. Ali began to dominate during the 60s while Frazier began to do as well in the late 60s, with other great champions in the middle of it as well such as Patterson, Liston, Ellis etc. Liston and Patterson were now fading by the time the 70s came around but they passed the torch to guys like Ali, Frazier, Foreman etc into the 70s. So if you were talk about the golden age of HW boxing, it would be from 60s-70s. More specifically it would be from 1960-1976. Maybe stretch it to 1978 if you want to count Ali's historic 3rd HW title even though Ali was way over the hill and his health was declining. I would say the golden age died with Ali the night he regained his title in 1978 OR the night Norton and Holmes faced off for the vacant HW title.