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this is the weakest era in HW history! holyfield knows this and is taking advantage--very possible he could take it a 5th time
No it's not the weakest era in heavyweight history, it's just different. It's competitive and also the promoters keep the big fights from happening.

I hate when people think just because there is not a unified champ that it's a weak era: Wladimir, Vitali, Sam Peter....those guys could hold their own in ANY era Louis, Marciano, Liston, Ali, Holmes, Tyson, Bowe, Lewis. There are extremely good fighters fighting these days but just because they are mostly Russian and haven't unified it's a "horrible era"......if anyone gave Wlad or Vitali the chance to unify they would do it and they would dominate and they'd still be ridiculed because it would be fairly easy for 2-3 years defending the titles as the younger heavyweights develop but hell Mike Tyson is looked upon very well though he had very few tough matches in his tenure as champion.

Holyfield has a good chance of beating Sultan it's not because Sultan is horrible...he isn't, he has talent, it's limited but he has talent and he's still developing as a 12 round fighter but Evander Holyfield is an all-time great fighter and he has the heart to beat anyone on any given night
Nope totally disagree only Wlad and Vitali would hold there own in eras like that the others wouldn't.


By the way how old is Holyfield ?? he must be close to Foremans record.
Yes only the top level guys like Wlad and Vitali could hold their own in any era....but think about the guys from those eras that could say the same.....it's like 1 or 2 per era it's not like 50 fighters from this era or that era could do great anytime.

Ali's era had Foreman and Frazier and that was it as far as GREAT goes.....it had a ton of good, decent, and average fighters like Quarry, Shavers, Bonavena, Chuvalo, Norton, Terrell, etc.....but tell me how is that different from right now

Wladimir and Vitali are going to be considered GREAT and they have a shitload of good, average, and talented young fighters behind them as well as the aging vets from the last era.

The perception of this era is just an issue of matches that need to be made, either Klitschko vs these guys: Sam Peter, Ruslan Chagaev, Sultan Ibragimov, Nicolay Valuev, Corrie Sanders, Shannon Briggs (maybe...just to see him KTFO), and Tony Thompson