What current fighters would hold their own in tougher eras?

i think floyd and ward could handle the 1 defence a year that at least one of the 8 champs would be averaging during most any era.

edit: I forgot they're black, so wouldn't get a belt in the first place and the points mcgrain made above wouldn't be good for spending a decade fighting anyone to get that shot.

 

More or less all of them since previous eras are not scrutinized to the same level the current level is and as such previous eras tend to be greatly overrated.

 

Any black fighter, especially if he's American.

 

Usually the ten best of each decade you could pick up and put into any decade and they'd thrive. They wouldn't always be champ, but they'd more than likely be the number two or three in their division at least. Pac, Mayweather, Hopkins, young Roy Jones, Marquez, Rigondeaux, Ward, Lara, GGG, Klitschko, Roman Gonzalez, etc.

 

are you insinuating that the only way many people can estimate boxing ability is by racial stereotyping?:huh ( You're actually right if you are )

 

Sadly yes That's how it goes on these forums.

 

:good exactly, considering that the field of competitors is much larger now than what it used to be.

 

Unfortunately, boxing is a local sport. Check the figures in any nation and their local fighters have better ratings and draw than foreigners who are better than them. I'm always doing double takes when I come to this site and see people hyping some boxer from Britain when he's only ranked twentieth in his division and already been knocked out two or three times.

 

Usually, I think the old legends would fight on even terms or better. But some of these guys are fighting well below their natural weight thanks to the change in weigh ins. So a lot of the time we'd be matching heavyweights with light heavyweights and light heavyweights with middleweights. The only fair way I can see to do these matches is to throw out weight and match them by height and reach measurements. 6'2"=heavyweight, 6'=lightheavyweight, 5'10"=middleweight, 5'8"=welterweight, 5'6"=lightweight, 5'4=featherweight, etc.

 

That brings us back at "almost impossible to compare different eras in boxing" :yep

 

manny pacquaio golovkin wlad

 

What about Bradley, and Rios?