Remember when Heavyweight Boxing was like this!!!!

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First of all most of us don't remember the Marciano days or earlier in person, and secondly a lot of those eras weren't that great... When Liston the division was horrible, when Holmes was on top the division was horrible, when Tyson was on top the division was horrible... Get the picture? Except for once or twice(the 70's and 90's) the heavyweight division has been dominated by one true heavyweight while the rest of the division was substantially below them in class or size. Upon further review I think that Klitschko would have done fine against a ton of fighters back in the day... he is fast, he's so strong, and big that the little guys who couldn't make 200 pounds in wet clothes and needed a stool to be 6' tall wouldn't hit him cleanly in 20 rounds.

When Liston was ruilng the division he was KO opponents in exciting fashion, when Holmes was ruling the division he would take risks and risk getting KO to finish his opponent's in exciting fashion. When Tyson was ruiling the division he would KO his opponents in impressive fashion. Do you see what im getting at here ?? even if thhose era's wern't the strongest Liston, Holmes, Tyson, would take risks to be great unlike Wlad IMO, the Heavyweight division isn't as popular because except for Wlad who is far too cautious and looks to be terrified of getting hit IMO, most of the Heavyweights skill level wise are piss poor and 95 percent of the fights are terrible and sloppy affairs. And Taeth no offence but you mentioned Peter, Valuev, in the same sentence as being *talented*. No offence but are you kidding me ?? Valuev is horrible and only ever got anywhere by being a freak of nature, he got gift decision's against John Ruiz, Larry Donald, for crying out loud. Peter is one dimensional and his defense is terrible and his punches are so wide and sloppy. He got a gift decision against a natural Super Middleweight, that just shows you what kind of skill level Peter is at. Like i said earlier the only real skilled Heavyweight out there is Wladimir Klitschko and he is far too cautious and he clinches like an octopus. You say Holmes and Liston era's were horrible, but i'll tell you something now i would pick those eras over the load of rubbish we got now any day of the week.