What Era had the Most Talented HeavyWeights?

[Max Power]

Just because you write a lot does not make you right.

Defence was only utilised by the fighters 2000? Have you heard yourself. You embarrass yourself with every post you make.

Holmes knocked out by Wlad how? With the excessive holding? He was rocked by a jab by Pulev.

He was knocked back a bit by a Pulev jab.

Pulev, a 6'4" 240lb giant technical boxer with solid record, unbeaten and rich pedigree.

Gee that's bad!

You can only criticise Wladimir on a fight he dominated in against an opponent as good as which never existed in Holmes era (except maybe aforementioned Tyson).

Meanwhile Holmes was decisioned 2ce by an opponent who Wladimir would knock out with the first connected hard right hand or left hook. Gifted against Witherspoon who was no Pulev, wasted by Tyson, went balls to the wall with Norton who didn't even start to box until his 20's and got bloody knocked down by cruiser cruncher bum beater Shavers who'd never even land a punch on Klitschko let alone a damaging one.

I like Holmes but don't try to sell me he'd be a thrashing machine in the current era. The nature of his wins in his own era was sometimes not dominant and he never fought the kind of dangerous opponents that he'd have to now.

I only wrote a lot then because I tried to cover the relevant facts before you tried to find the flaws.

Of course boxers have defence prior to 2000. But the difference in boxing now to your times is evidently different. Look at the caution involved now by most fighters, instead of the dropped guard slug fests of yesteryear. It's clear it's today paramount. The Manswell Stiverne bout above is a nice little example.

You call it boring, and "fighting scared". I call it smart and I call it defensive minded. Harder punches, force higher defence. Because any fighter that doesn't have these qualities now in some form must either have an iron chin like none before, or they'd be knocked out well before we would even learn their name!