What's so great about the 70's?

Good cheap dope and the Dead were still prime?

 

Network television.... exposure.

 

:yep:rofl:rofl

 

Which crowd do you mean, the 70's or the current pile of shite?

It's obvious that Lewis cleans out the current crop, seeing as the worst version of Lewis beat the snot out of the best fighter around at HW at the moment. Lewis V the guys from the 70's is a different matter, and I'm a huge Lewis fan.

 

Imagine if Tyson, Lewis, and Holmes had been in their primes during the Ali, foreman, Frazier era:yikes

 

The poignant question is "what if WALDO and VITLAY had been at their primes in that era?"

:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Could be

 

It's overrated when people put it on the same plane as the lightweight division of the 20's and 30's, and other great eras of other lighter weights. I notice this most often when people mention Ali having one of the best resumes ever, when they should be saying he's got the best resume of a career heavyweight. From a pure talent standpoint, the heavyweight division has never been and will never be the deepest in the game.

Strictly going against the other heavyweight eras, the 70's is damned good but overall it tends to get overrated in the grand scheme of things.

 

You know it's bad when Matt Skelton can push the world number three all the way over 12 rounds.

But then Skelton is bigger than Louis, Ali, Farzier, Foremen etc and that is how some people seem to think that boxing works

 

All the fights were on the telly live & delayed hi-lights & every school kid new who the champs were & we'd re-enact-em all at breaktime.

 

He`s joking (I hope)

 

The 70s as a whole was a rather weak decade in terms of American "dominance".

Outside of the HW division, it was largely dominated by Latin American fighters.

 

phew, thank God. so we can end this thread now right?