Would Peter Mcneeley be a contender in this era?

No. Peter McNeely was a joke back then & he'd be cannon fodder if he fought against today's Heavys.

 

Amazing how Punisher33 gives McNeely a serious chance against today's HW's........................I never would've guessed

 

Peter Mcneeley looked ******ed in the staredown at the begginning of the Tyson fight.

 

I said he would be a contender not a title holder, theres a big difference. Look at that the fighters we have now as contenders, McNeely isnt much worse than fighters like Mcbride, Fields, and Austin.

 

Peter would struggle with a guy in the same region of a Derrick Rossy, he was just a solid guy with very limited yet spirited skills..

He would take a hammering from someone like Zuri Lawrence, he was just full of adrenaline against Tyson.. He was kept unbeaten for Don King to put in front of a top heavyweight.. He was absolutely battered once before the Tyson fight, Stan Wright beat him in his sole loss on a terrible cut...

 

All 3 of the fighters you named are better, and have achieved more than McNeeley. That's not an opinion either, that's a fact. The only close call is Fields and he looked good against that fat journeyman guy Koval.

 

Louis Monaco a journeyman with decent punch and a 16-35 record stopped both Peter McNeeley & Kevin McBride in the 5th round in 1996 & 1997. Monaco lost to almost every other decent Heavyweight he fought so how McBride can be regarded as a contender I do not know.

 

But if Floyd Patterson was champ, I put money on that McNeeley would have goting a title shot.

 

Punisher just wishes the golden era of the 80's was back, when giants like Pinklon Thomas and Trevor Berbick ruled the division.

 

You forgot Greg Page and Tim Witherspoon, I never said the 80s were the golden age. The 90s and the 70s were, thats when people actually knew who the Heavyweight champ was. Go into your local bar and ask who the Heavyweight boxing champ is, I bet you more people say Lennox Lewis than Wlad Klitschko. Face it the divsion sucks, talent and personality wise.:yep

 

A contender? In the era when every Don King fighter gets a title shot - not because he won an eliminator - but because of his promoter - then yes, McNeely under Don King would be a contender and could probably get several title shots in a row.

 

Actually they will probably say Mike Tyson, meaning that a non-boxing fan not knowing who the HW champ is doesn't reflect the talent in the division. Everyone knew who Tyson was in the 80's and the division was weak, I don't believe many knew who Lewis was either outside of boxing circles because he never threatened to stomp on people's children's testicles or convicted of ****.
I'm not saying today's division is anywhere near a golden age but there is some very good talent still. IMO it is on par with the 90's.
If you don't like the non-boasting personalities of Wlad, Sultan, Chagaev, etc. you may have to wait for Ibeabuchi to get out of prison to add some criminality to the division.

 

Fair enough, but trying to understand what the hell Sultan was trying to say on FNF last week was painful, I had to turn up volume as high it can go, to make out what he was trying to say. Yes, there are a few in the divsion I think are talented, but 2 or 3 kinda talented fighters aint going to make the divsion great, unless that 1 or 2 includes Mike Tyson.:yep

I just think the Heavyweight divsion is suffering greatly because there is no great fighters in the divsion, and most of the top 10 have no personalities to get the average fan interested again. Its sad that 2 fighters in there 40s, meaning Holyfield/Tyson, will probably end up doubling the sales of this so called great unification match, Iggy/Wlad.:verysad

 

Punisher would give Lou Duva a chance against today's heavyweights.

 

I think you are probably the ONLY guy on this site who would say that the current division sucks from a talent standpoint.

There may be, repeat, MAY be another radical like you who would say that, but I doubt it.