Which decade contained the best elite fighters?

atsch

 

Hearns kills them.

 

80's

Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Hagler, Chavez, Sanchez, Gomez, Benitez, Spinks, Holmes, Tyson, ect....

 

They've fought everyone there was to fight, and that's all they can do. You have to be careful, when you have dominant champs, NOT to assume that every other fighter on the planet sucks because the champ is just that good. That's usually not the case.

There are a lot of champs who get a lot more credit for multiple neck and neck fights than other champs do who just blew out their competition on a steady basis.

 

The 80s were unreal. you had p4p greats in almost every division. Holmes, Tyson, Sanchez, Leonard, Lora, Chavez, Hagler. Those guys would reign in almost any era in history.

 

80's - it also had the prime unbeatable someone named Mike Tyson

 

Its a tough close choice between the 70's and 80's, but I voted the 80's.

I wish we could re-live the 70's and 80's eras, cause those were great moments, great fights, good music, no bullshiitt laws, and plenty of free TV coverage of boxing on CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ABC's Wide World of Sports, Forum Boxing on PRIME TICKET from the Inglewood Forum, Olymic Auditorium's Thursdays Night fights every week, Los Angeles Sports Arena shown on the spanish TV stations, USA's Tuesday Night Fights every week too.

 

the 70's and 80's were great fights.
Hardly no one ducked anyone, and they all fought for boxing itself, not for dirty politics like now.

 

Tyson made the boxing world go round & round.

There will never be anyone like Tyson.:verysad

 

I'd say the generation that came a whole decade after Ali's prime. In the 80's you saw some of the millions of kids who were inspired by him as pro adults. Say what you like about Ali but he really did make boxing the biggest sport on Earth for a while and was considerd the biggest sports star alive along with maybe Pele'. In my opinion it just makes sense that the generation who grew up watching him would produce the best boxers. Things like PPV and MMA have played a massive part in destroying boxing talant and also lead to less people watching that era. Say what you want but the only competition boxing had for people in the western world was weight lifting (which I've heard was not in the 70's) and Karate (which does not offer the same kind of career). Now you have loads of teens lifting weights to look big and probly more training MMA than boxing because 'it makes you harder'. You don't have any true stars now either because of too many fights being on PPV. I'd say Stallone has brought the most since Ali.

 

I grew up watching the Naugties as well but my cousin who got me into boxing grew up watching the 80's and has given me lots of videos. I think a prime ODLH beats both Pac and Mayweather and should at least be on the pole. The 00's had some greats I think it's the next generation that will be really weak.

 

A lot of their 'biggest' wins have come against fighters who had their peak in the 90's. Wlad has been flawed by three different fighters under Steward, a KO loss he only avenged when the fighter was shot, a technical split decision he did not rematch and a close one he only rematched when the fighter was shot. You only have to look at how fat the guys he's fighting are to see they aren't as good as past fighters. Also it should just be greatest decade of the modern era. Like English Football, Boxing is a totally different game now.

 

This is a good point.