To be Fair is Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, and Tyson Fury overrated?

Please, were taking h2h? On the eye test, they own the old, slow, tiny ATGs of old.

 

Mercer ??
Do you mean Holmes ?

 

There has never been a 6'6" guy with speed and power like Joshua.

Even Lennox and Klitscho were not as big. And Fury is 6'9" - and can move well.

It's a different era

 

Highly unlikely, Mercer was horribly inconsistent, on a good day he was a handful for anyone but even then he lost simply because he was often out worked. He'd never be undisputed simply because he could never be consistent enough to get all the belts.

One fight he beats Wilder or Joshua or at the very least gives them a tough fight, next fight he doesn't train and loses to Whyte or Miller who simply out work him on a bad day.

As for how good the top guys are now, it's hard to say you'd favour them over the best of previous era's but that's always the case when comparing to past era's. It's always an unbalanced comparison as we can judge past fighters by their entire achievements while we cannot do that with the current crop as their entire careers have yet to play out.

I remember in the 90's, people said Holyfield was too small and just holding the belt until Tyson returned. Lewis was basic, boring and only had a 1-2 and it was Bowe who was seen as the potential great and we all saw what happened there. Clearly Bowe was arguably the worst of the 4 and the 2 guys who were written off in Evander and Lewis were the most dominant champions of that era.

Maybe guys like Joshua and Wilder in later years, as champions, they will be seen like Dokes or Weaver, but then again maybe they'll be up there with the Lewis', Foreman's, Marciano's, Tyson's and Ali's. We can't say for sure what they'll go onto achieve and how that alters how we rate them in comparison to past greats.

 

Totally disagree. All three of these guys would beat everyone in your list except Lewis. And maybe Holyfield because his heart was uncommon.

The rest of those guys were far from great when comparing them to guys the size of Wilder, Joshua and Fury.

Look at Tyson for instance, he got knocked out by freaking Buster Douglas who was only 6'4. But with Tyson all you had to do was lean on him and tie him up. What could he possibly do against the monsters of today? Nothing.

 

Rose tinted glasses syndrome for sure,all unbeaten in their era and against the other greats theyed all have wins and some losses as it should be.

 

Lol it’s right

 

Yes, yes and yes.

 

The unavoidable truth is that nothing beats nostalgia and no current fighters will ever be compared favorably to those of the past.

 

What you're doing is preparing for when Wilder is on top so you can still discredit him. So you think Wilder will come out on top so the whole division has to be bums. I get it, you're just hating.

 

You have your head in the clouds because a prime Klitschko would stop all three in the same night.
One hard right from 42 year old Klitschko and Joshua fell like a sack of manure.

 

One or Two fighters doesn't make an era that's something you're not getting. I'm not going to argue what would of happened with a younger Klitschko, with Emanuel Stewart still alive prodding him to finish AJ, you could be right, or you could be wrong.

 

To be fair Wilder, Joshua, and Fury can't really be compared with the past greats until their careers are over. Joshua only has 21 fights and is still young and Fury only has 26 fights and is 29. Wilder has 40 fights and at 32 has at least another 3-4 good years in him.