I tend to gravitate towards the late 50's and 60's which domestically in the US was the height of the sports popularity and a time when the best fought the best with out greedy promoters, color lines being drawn and Alphabet titles watering the sport down. I also like the 80's and 90's because of the strong international amauter boxing programs that truly produced the highest quality athletes. But I hate the boxing politics of that era as well with the Alphabet titles and shitty promoters.
Of course. The OP asked for our for what we have been bringing on and those decades are what I have been watching lately. Is that ok with you? I do love the 70's with guys like Duran and Monzon but I haven't watched many fights recently from that era which is what is question was.
I'm not really looking at one decade presently. What I'm doing is a more in depth study of some of the Heavyweight Boxers who were victimized by the color line being drawn. I'm learning that I should have taken a deeper look at these guys years ago. So far I'm starting to understand that I've under rated guys like Harry Wills, Sam McVea, and Joe Jeannette. (I've always thought a lot of Sam Langford.) I'm looking at Peter Jackson, too, but, so far, I don't think he's on a par with the four I've just mentioned. I may have to slightly revise my personal all-time Heavyweight rankings after this study. I've involved my son in this study, also. He's a member of another Boxing Forum, but not this one. I like arguing with him about Evander Holyfield, who I rank higher than he does. He's a youngster, only 76, so he has time to see the light on Holy.
I was binge watching early 90's stuff until recently. But I'm now trying to get up to speed with the modern scene, which I've largely ignored for too long.
50s welters and mids... Gavilan, Basilio, SRR mostly. Defense is much better than advertised and all of the guys I’ve seen came to fight... nobody forces the KO but that’s clearly the objective. Also, it must be noted that middleweight Ray was a SAVAGE.
