Were the 90`s a weak era in boxing?

I am not even sure if this was meant as a 90’s thread or a Calzaghe thread....the title is completely different from the OP

 

We're dealing with a guy who thinks that GGG has a better defence than a prime version of Roy Jones, and someone who also asks opinions on how a De La Hoya-Toney fight would have played out at MW.

 

LOL haha, I only just noticed that as I didn't even read the OP.

 

yes. nobody even thinks of that decade

 

I grew up watching boxing in the 90s. At the time, and looking back, it wasn't a great era. Was it better than boxing now? **** yeah, but boxing these days is so bad that it really isn't saying much.

The popularity of the sport was on the wane, the lack of meaningful title bouts hurt the sport and the lack of mainstream attention reflected how the sport was declining.

If you looked hard, you could obviously find fights and fighters that were outstanding but the lack of depth in each division was obvious.

I'm not sure where this veneration of the 90s has come from recently but it feels like a bit of a fantasy. Or at least a whitewash of all the **** we had to sit through for much of it.

 

Hey Mark you seem a decent guy, and I hope some of the criticisms you have received don’t deter you from learning more or hanging around this forum.

I would just recommend you read your posts before launching them. For example:

This thread title is about the 90s and whether it was a poor decade...yet most responses have shown it was a solid one.

But your OP is more about Calzaghe than the 90s. Calzaghe was not seen as great in the late 90s but rather a upcoming guy who was untested (protected?) on a world level. It was likely 2001-2 before he became more known and some would say not until the win over Lacy later on.

In a thread about Been/Eubank/Watson you drug in SRL which was not feasible or relevant.

Once again I hope you stick around, I just hope you look at your threads and posts and check to see if they make sense and/or that responses are relevant.

Oh well

 

I never heard of anyone saying the 1990's were weak.

 

Oh HELL NO. The 90's were pretty friggin phenomenal, steroids and all...

Not as great as the 80's, which was a decade with the best movies, athletes, sports teams, hair, women, music, clothes, more women, commercials...

Old Holmes, Old Foreman, past prime Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., The STACKED Middleweights of the early 90's: Nunn, McCallum, Jackson, Kalambay, Toney, Hopkins, Benn, Eubanks, Graham, Watson, Barkley, Johnson, Parks, Collins, Terrible Terry Norris...

I haven't even gotten past 160

 

No argument from me! At least not a solid one.

 

I loved Oscar, but he wasn't a MW.

The Sturm fight was a joke.

 

The 1990s were great but not as good as the 1940s-1960s and the 1980s.

 

What the ****!??

 

Joe Calzaghe?? Well trained?? He just slapped pads for an hour non-stop and rarely sparred and did no technical work on bags. He wasn't very good technically - nobody could miss him with the right hand. And he clearly lost to the very limited, flat footed Reid.

Athletically he was great - natural power, hand speed, fitness, stamina. Good natural instincts, solid chin and a grafter.

Nothing remotely like a Toney, Whitaker, Norris or Nunn.