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sean
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sean asked in SportsBoxing · 8 years ago

What is your favourite era?

Not the greatest era, or era with the best boxers, just your favourite. On YouTube I always seem end up on Benn, Eubank, Collins, and Toney back in the 90s. Not the greatest boxers ever just loved the middleweight division back then. Any other favourites??

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    1984-1988...Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, and a young Mike Tyson in his prime. Plus, fights were on HBO and basic cable (NBC and wide world of sports...not pay per view)

  • 8 years ago

    Late 60 thru the end of the 70's otherwise known as the "Golden Age of the Heavyweight Division".

    The Mid-80's during the hey day of Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Leonard, Pryor and Camacho Sr. is a close second, but I am old enough to remember Ali at his best, and I understand the depth of talent those heavyweights brought to boxing,

    So I give Liston, Patterson, Ali, Frazier, Williams, Ellis, Foreman, Holmes, Shavers, Chuvalo, Norton, Young, Foster, Folley. Cooper, Lyle, Bonevena and Quarry their due. Muhammad Ali wouldn't be remembered as the greatest Heavyweight of all time without them.

  • teodor
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The 70s which saw the following milestones::

    01. Muhammad Ali as the GOAT following his storied rivalries with Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton.

    02. The emergence of future multi-division world champions and ATGs Roberto Duran, Alexis Arguello, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Wilfred Benitez

    03. The rise of the WBC as a legitimate rival of WBA as credible world boxing governing and sanctioning body.

    04. Emergence of multi million dollar super fights like Ali-Frazier series, Ali- Foreman, Ali-Norton series, Foreman-Frazier series, Leonard-Benitez, Leonard-Duran series, Leonard-Hearns.

    05. The rise of Mexico and Asian countries as the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Thailand as major pro boxing powers in the international stage.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    2000-Present Welterweight Era

    We had, and still have a few:

    Manny Pacquiao

    Floyd Mayweather

    Zab Judah

    Cory Spinks

    Joshua Clottey

    Antonio Margarito

    Oscar De la Hoya

    Shane Mosley

    Miguel Cotto

    Juan manuel Marquez

    So many more!

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  • 8 years ago

    70''s - 80's. The 70's was an era of great heavyweights - Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Norton, Shavers and a talented upstart named Larry Holmes, while he 80's was an era of great welterweights namely, Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Benitez, Cuevas and one very talented and frightening heavyweight - Mike Tyson.

  • 8 years ago

    Either the 60's-70's heavy weights with Ali,Foreman,Liston,Fraizer,Norton.

    or the

    80's Welter weights with Hearns,Hagler,Duran and Leonard.

    No era since has been as good as either of those.

  • 8 years ago

    60s heavyweights- Ali made boxing into one of the world biggest sports

    70s heavyweight- Legends fighting legends all the time

    80s welter/middleweight- Multi division champions- same people fighting each other at different weights

  • 8 years ago

    Definitley the 70s

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