Which heavyweight era had more talent, the Klitschko era, or the post-Klitschko era?

No. That's still how I see it. It's just that the two Klitschko's in their primes were better than Usyk, Joshua, Fury, and Wilder. Only the late addition of Usyk really even makes it close.

 

Really? Because I got sick of Fury, Wilder, and Joshua avoiding each other for years and then Fury's endless rematches with Wilder and Chisora. Wilder milked his belt the first what, nine defenses? It was like one of those comedy sitcom tv will they won't they relationships for seven seasons. Eventually, you just find all of the characters annoying and you stop caring if they ever get together. What was good was Usyk putting that era down like euthanizing a sick dog. I don't think his reign should be considered with that crap which preceded it. He's his own thing, a new thing. We're not in the Fury, Wilder, Joshua triumvirate anymore. We're in the Usyk era.

I will say that Joshua did show spine and fought more decent challengers than Fury or Wilder. After a phenomenal start he just ended up folding. He probably would have fought them if they didn't dodge him. Whyte, Breazeale, Klitschko, Povetkin, Parker showed guts and ambition. He stumbled with Ruiz and never recovered.

 

They didn't get made any more than they did in the Klitschko era. We never got Fury vs Joshua or Joshua vs Wilder. I'd rather have those than Fury Wilder 2 and 3. The Klitschko era didn't have good fights 1)because Fury, Joshua, and Wilder avoided them until they got old and 2)because they were so much better than everybody else that it wasn't competitive.

It used to be that boxers fought three times a year or more for 60 fight careers. They fought fellow contenders to get a shot at the title. Now, they don't fight anybody so they can preserve their 0, fighting once a year to hold their rank until they get a chance to nab a paper belt. We pay them more money to fight less and have less interesting fights. It's the Floyd Mayweathering of the sport.

 

In terms of actual talent, theres nothing to separate them imo.

But the Fury/AJ/Usyk/Wilder era will be more fondly remembered because it was more entertaining and had more star power.

 

Well I wanted to point it out.