TommyGunn

im going with the 70's on this purely because the era was blessed with such talent as ali, frazier, foreman, norton, leonard, hearns, duran, hagler and much much more.

JCC

For reasons of the only options allowed in this poll. I chose to pick the 1950s, however. In my veiw, the 1940s and 1950s produced the most over all talent in the weight divisons. Boxing was also its peak as sport in popularity in those years, the 1940s and 1950s.


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The Auctioneer

I picked the 70's but the 30's through the 70's I think was the real golden age of boxing.No abcs of belts.

bill1234

I agree, definately the 30's-70's.

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Dave Murphy

It seemed that during the Seventies that Boxing was clicking on all cylinders. There wasn't one division that lagged behind the others,like with some of the other Eras where one or two of the glamour divisions was thriving and carrying the rest.

JCC

They say so goes the heavyweight division, so goes the sport of boxing.

If there's no real star the sport suffers.

JJC

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bill1234

Yep, and its true.

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TommyGunn

its good to see vitali comming back just now and guys like sam peter on the up. things just now are starting to look a bit better. still not great but better.

i think we'll all agree that we need a top hw from the u.s. these russian robots just dont add any glitz to the division. and i dont see shannon briggs as the savior.

bill1234

What we need is Lennox Lewis to come back and whip all of them, and Vitali. But the sport of boxing truly needs another Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Rocky Marciano, (yes even a Mike Tyson), to get the sport back into it. Someone who will draw crowds, and can back it up with skill, and pure domination.

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JCC

The best of the mediocre, maybe.

I don't think you'll likely to see that happen easily, if even at all to happen.

Only for reasons there are easier paths to fame and fortunate these days to attract the most talented of American athletes.

It makes little sense for them to spill their blood, risk their brains and lives in an unforgiving arena of a square ring, when they can make millions in baseball, football, basketball, and as the richest and most famous of the all. Tiger Woods can attest, the non violent sport of golf.

If you want to know why boxing doesn't attract the most talented of Amercian athletes any more?

That's it! That's the reason it doesn't.

If you were to take a fresh and closer look at great's of boxing's past eras, at the legends.

Who were these people?

They were mostly sons of immigrants and racially oppressed blacks in Amercia, and for many of them it was fighting (boxing), or forever laboring in obscurity were the only options.

I love our sport, I boxed too. But reality is reality, and that's just the way it was! That's what over all produced the greats as for many of the American boxer's of past eras who are today legends.

Hardly!

JJC

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