Underrated Eras in Boxing

Certainly not the Jeffries era

I would say the 30's

 

00's HW's

 

The entire 30's era was underrated the competition was fairly deep all around

The 1895-1905 era is overrated at heavyweight and underrated at lightweight, middleweight

The 80s heavyweight era is underrated the only thing it lacked was the excitement of Ali's presence

 

The mid 80s welterweights.

Actually, the welterweight era after the Leonard/Hearns/Duran/Benitez of the late 70s/early 80s and before the late 90s with Oscar/Tito/Whitaker/Shane/Ike was pretty talented.

 

The answer is always the current one.

 

80s. It was a great time for other divisions. But for some reason people think the HW of that era were all bums? Tucker witherspoon holmes tubbs thomas williams etc just didnt have the personalities and the hype of the 70s HWs. Norton and frazier were 2 of the best HWs of the 70s... were they really that much more talented than pinklon thomas, tony tucker , tim witherspoon, tony tubbs? Not to mention tyson and holmes.

Just because we didnt get the great fights and spectacles in the HW division that we got in the 70s doesnt mean that they were bums. It doesnt make sense if you look at the other divisions at the same time

 

During the 1930s, the consensus seems to have been that the heavyweights of Jeffries era, were superior to the contemporary crop of heavyweights.

That doesn't mean that it was the case of course, but you should tread carefully in assuming the opposite.

 

Current Heavyweight

The lightweight era with Mayweather, Stevie, Spadafora, Castillo, Corrales, Casamayor, and Freitas. Completely stacked and Spaddy was the only guy taking the easy route.

 

Late 90's-Mid 2000's Bantamweights. (Rafael Marquez, Tim Austin, Veeropol Sahaprom, Tapia, Ayala, Hasegawa and a number of other solid fighters at the weight).

 

Biased parrots......Jeffries was not Superior at anything except for beating up little old retired and washed up fighters the data is their no other era was that bad. Just because biased old timers idolized the era and monopolized the story telling means nothing....only a few watched Jeff and control the view of the time.

 

that late 1900s to say 1915....after ketchel died it left middleweight in a mess....people think multiple champions are a modern thing but there were loads of various claimaints after ketchel...its how australia crowned les darcy world champion.
but yet it was a good era...lightweight gave us wolgast and nelson...packy mc fardland...even owen moran moved into it.

 

As others stated the current one,bc it takes usually a decade to look back and evaluate it. Which of course is a huge mystery to me since i can see clear and have educated relevant/rational subjective look on skills etc,maybe someone can enlighten me on this phenomenon in the boxing community? lol

 

The 80's HW's were better skilled fighters than the 70's for sure. When you take a figure like Ali away and less coverage its very easy to look at things in a total opposite manner thats really there.Its like todays era,its always the Lennox Lewis isnt there card so its weak...thats what every era gets.Yet in the 90's lewis was not even appreciated, next era will be weak too bc Joshua isnt there but hes a overated hype job now.....lol

Had the 80's guys been here today with the modern media it wouldnt be so bad really.What the 80's didnt have was many power punchers or aggressive inside fighters like the 70's.Guys started boxing more and using footwork more.Of course no one took notice even with holmes bc Ali had retired.