The 90s are a true golden HW era; HW 70s are nostalgia...

Yes, regularly prescribed against insomnia here in Sweden.

 

Trivia: Walcott passed away in 1994, the same year his record was broken by Foreman.

 

I think the fights could have been equally interesting, the sports level was lower... The 5 best HWs from the 70s eat the 5 best fighters from the 90s for breakfast. Perhaps the background of the 1990s was a bit better, but the top 5 HW of the 1970s was really something big.

 

I've been saying this for years. Ali put a spell on the fedora wearing types and cast his glow upon lesser opponents. But even he can't carry an entire decade.

 

For the first time, I'm going to agree with you very much.

 

That’s part of the problem with upping the 1990s heavyweight scene over the 1970s … two of those ‘70s guys (Holmes and Foreman) were provably better than some of the top ‘90s fighters and competitive with others.

You don’t see any of those 1990s guys in their 40s competing with young guns two decades/generations later.

So I have to give the 1970s the nod there.

Then there is the fact, as mentioned, that the 1990s guys managed to miss each other entirely or either fought well past the sell-by date of the fight vs when it should have happened.

This is especially true for the biggest possible fights (as far as how history would have looked at them, not necessarily $$$-wise) like Bowe missing Lewis and Tyson, plus Tyson missing way more top guys than he actually fought.