I think that although the current era of boxing has better atheletes due to science and training, I believe that there is a decline in the number of kids that get into boxing (which is evident by the closing of gyms around the country) couple this with more weight classes and the proliferation of belts through crappy alphabet orginizations we have a more diluted talent pool then say pre mid 80's. Considering that it is much harder to find a 6 ft 200+ pound athelete that wants to fight, than say light-middle weight, it is no wonder that the watering down of the boxings talent pool is even more evident in the HW ranks. I think the guys that HW's fought (pre late eighties) as they were working up the rankings were of a better quality than today. At the very least the HW division and boxing as a whole had more depth.