Your unpopular boxing opinions

Usyk is a stylistic nightmare for most Heavyweight ATGs and beats most of them too.

 

Jack Dempsey & Rocky Marciano were better boxers & had better defence than Joe Frazier

 

The 90s is an under rated era for boxing, particularly the heavyweights. Bowe, Holyfield, Old Foreman, Old Holmes 90s Tyson and Lewis, they'd hang with anyone these days...90s Bruno, Mercer, Morrison, Ruddock are all tough head to head prospects. Overlap guys like Thomas, Dokes, Smith they'd compete right now. Throw a rock and you'll hit a heavyweight who would be competitive today.

 

Not an unpopular opinion in my house!

 

Come to the conclusion, thanks in no small way to the incessant 'versus' threads that pop up in the classic section that Tommy Morrison on his best night is a hard night's work for most heavyweights. I think history has been unkind to him and he's viewed as some kind of one trick pony party boy. Now, he may have been like that at some stages, I'm not denying that, but the best, focused TM is a handful...

 

Taylor was one fight away from becoming THE Welterweight Champion after the Chavez fight; that being a rematch with McGirt. He declined after the first Chavez bout, but I don't think it's as dramatic as often implied. Hell, he even performed well in the rematch after jumping weight, taking a beating from Norris, and being finished off at welterweight by Espana.

 

Bowe beats Tyson prime for prime.

 

The current HW era is terrible.

Carnera is underrated, the mob ties get way overblown.

Monzón is overrated.

 

Jeffries clears planet earth and the entire solar system

 

Boy that's a tough idea. The Bowe who won the title from Holyfield was a h2h nightmare for a lot of boxers.

If we were talking about post-Rooney Tyson, sure. But Bowe at his best just got hit way too much. He was too willing to take a shot too often.

It's a very interesting idea to daydream on, I spent an afternoon on it lol. But I think Mike, after taking some rude jabs and at least one uppercut that lifts him off his feet, ends up overwhelming Bowe in 7.

 

Agreed. Bowe might well beat the early 90’s Tyson, but just a bit too slow & hittable IMO against the peak version. Lewis too would fall like a tree to the young Tyson.

 

Canelo and Floyd would beat McCallum.

 

I wouldn't say it's underrated, as generally it's regarded as a strong era when looking back. Obviously, it was underrated back in the 90s, like virtually every heavyweight era is during its own time.

 

Holmes beat Holyfield, lost to Carl Williams, and dominated Norton in (mostly) one-sided fashion.
(It's 4 AM here, and in the first draft of this comment I actually wrote "Carl Lewis".)

 

Pinklon Thomas, Michael Dokes and Bonecrusher Smith were mediocre to downright terrible in the 90s.