The real golden age of boxing

After 76 ali was a paper champ imo.

Golden age of boxing was 30's & 40's.

 

20's-40's were golden (hell, you could go back to the turn of the century, really), there was a dip in quality in the 50's (old breed dying out, new breed making its way), and the 60's-80's were golden. The 90's were good, but a drop off in class (Heavyweights aside) from the 80's, and the 2000's have dropped off even further the more it's gone along.

 

:thumbsup

 

How about the Welterweight division from 1977-82? Palomino, Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Cuevas, Benitez.

 

Golden Age was 40´s and 80´s in my opinion....

 

Very good.....but the Golden Age of WW was the 30´s:
1935-39...

-Armstrong
-Holman Williams
-Charley Burley
-Barney Ross
-Jimmy McLarnin
-Ceferino Garcia
-Fritzie Zivic
-Kid Azteca

 

I think the 80s were good, Tyson at heavyweight, Holyfield at Cruiserweight, throw in Duran, hearns, Leonard and Hagler amongst others

 

D 1980s & 1990s were as good as d 1970s .
D "olden age" was from about d end of WW2 until d early 2000s & including . And there were scatters of goodness in earlier times as well but those were by no means "golden ages" , they were eras of exhibitions , short fights , fixed fights , lousy level overall , foul play just like any other time .
Regarding d early 2000s :
Delahoya , Quartey , Mosley , Tszyu , Pacquiao , Marquez , Ronald Wright , Vitali Klitschko , Wladimir Klitschko , Lennox Lewis , David Tua , Corrie Sanders , Chris Byrd , Orlin Norris and more during that time .
Only d 160lbs division was **** , but it's only 1 division .
I think that @ every potential "golden" age there can b found a **** division or 2 .

 

I can't objectively deny the 1930s-40s being the true Golden Era, but I do feel the 70s/80s can stand up as a proud and truly great era with some top tier ATGs division-by-division:

* Muhammad Ali
* Roberto Duran
* Carlos Monzon
* Jose Napoles
* Ray Leonard
* Thomas Hearns
* Alexis Arguello
* Salvador Sanchez
* Carlos Zarate
* Wilfredo Gomez
* Miguel Canto
* Marvin Hagler
* Michael Spinks
* Julio Cesar Chavez
* Wilfred Benitez
* Emile Griffith
* Aaron Pryor
* George Foreman
* Joe Frazier
* Larry Holmes
* Mike Tyson
* Carlos Palomino
* Ken Buchanon

On and on.. Choosing a Lord for each, I'd agree with most of Cox's picks.

Heavyweight: Ali
175: Spinks
160: Monzon or Hagler
154: Hearns
147: Leonard
140: Pryor
135: Duran
130: Arguello
126: Sanchez
122: Gomez
118: Zarate
112: Canto

What you wanna do?

 

Apart from the fact that most of the fighters got robbed blind by the mafia I'd say the late 40s was the golden era for non-heavyweight boxing.
Charles
Marshall
Williams
Lamotta
Zale
Burley
Graziano
Robinson
Zivic
Bratton
Cerdan
ike Williams
Beau jack
Montgomery
Armstrong
Jenkins
It was an amazing era. For the big men the 70s will never be bettered

 

Single fighters dont define eras. It's the depth of the divisions, quality and activity that they fought in which define the era.