Was the 1980's the best decade for boxing?

Who is talking about as good. As great yes, as good, no. There´s a difference you know.

Grow up.

So, because I´m German I can´t have an objective opinion about Schmeling ... I guess All the American posters are although biased towards Americans and all British posters are biased for the British fighters. :roll:

But of course it´s easy to dismiss someone opinion by accusing him of bias. And it´s childish.

 

Tough question :huh

You could do a case that the 80's was the best decade for boxing, overall, and I would majorly agree most of the time...

But (and it is a BIG BUT), IMO the best decade for the HW category was the 70's hands down: you had larger-than-life glamorous ATG champions, epic battles, massive media coverage, a huge fan base around the world. The HW category truly was at the center of the world :happy

Not even Tyson can counterbalance that

 

The best thing about the 80's was that fights between the best were still being made. And a lot of it could be seen on FREE TV.

Otherwise, a truly lackluster heavyweight division with a bunch of underachieving drug addicts and donut enthusiasts did little for me. Of the fighters you mentioned Duran and Benitez were past it. Still a very good era for non-heavies.

 

The 70's were a better era not only for Heavies, but Light Heavies and the lower weight classes (Fly, Bantam, etc.) as well. The 60's may've been the best era for the lower weights in general, though.

 

Canto, Ohba, Oguma, Choinoi, Gonzalez; the bantam guys I’m sure you’re familiar with: The Two Z-Men, Ruben, Chucko Castillo.The 70s is my favourite era in boxing too actually- mostly because of the international flavourof the sport and the fact that world title fights were spread around the globe, rather than American having home advantage every big fight. Although, objectively, when it comes to great fights throughout the divisions, the 1980s were a better decade.

 

Actually, Montreal happened in the 70s. A decade goes from 1 to 10, from 1971 to 1980 or from 1981 to 1990.

 

Oh dear. Even if the decade is counted at Year One (which, commonly, it isn't, at least not any more), Montreal still didn't happen in the 1970s.You can bet your life on that. :good

 

Just like Max Schmelling being a 20s fighter, eh? After all his won his world title in the 20s.......... 1930. :yep

 

When did it change? At least over here it still works that way, like it or not. Counting from 1 to 10 isn´t that hard. And since Duran-Leonard I happened in 1980 it´s still the 70s. It may be perceived as an 80s fights but technically it isn´t.

 

Well, yeah, he can be counted for both decades but since he did his most interesting work in the 30s he´s more of a 30s fighter.

But this has nothing to do with a fighter and to which decade he should belong but to a fight which happened at a specific date and thus can be placed very exactly.