Why isn't Lewis/Golota/Briggs/Bowe, etc. TEMPTED....

**VictorCharlie** · 03-30-2009 02:25 PM

Tyson going to prison really screwed up what could have been a great HW period. Tyson/Lewis/Holy/Bowe/Mercer/Morrison/Moorer all would have been either in their prime or not to far from it to provide great fights. Some of these we did get but a lot we either didn't get at all or one of the fighters had started into decline. I mean it may not be Ali/Foreman/Frazier/Quarry etc but its not that far off either.

**JonnyFolds** · 03-30-2009 02:42 PM

Did quarry ever win any of those fights?

I think of these guy and I put Norton in there instead.

Tua is fighting in July or Sept apparently. He didn't look too bad in his last fight, but it's really been a while..

**jamiebhoy** · 03-30-2009 10:33 PM

Re the HW division of the 70's, I am 45 and I remember watching a lot of fights at this time, I believe part of the reasion we hark on about the 70's being the best era for HW's is partly nostaligia. It was the first time that people could watch fights at home in colour and we had the legacy of Ali getting everyone stirred up. When Ali was gone we kept waiting for the replacement which obviously never come. There were a lot of good fighters in the 70's and there were the return matches and rubber matches you wouldn't get these days.
Having so many belts hasn't helped, we oldies were spoiled by watching the best and not being subjected to a bunch of second rate fighters haggling over a title that everyone knows doesn't really make you a bona fide WC.
Not to say the 70's scene wasn't good but maybe it wasn't THAT good after all.A lot of what is said is with hindsight and by the next generation, not many people moaned when Tyson arrived, he was exciting and brought something new, now it's all "well Tyson was never that good"

Wonder what they'll be saying about Pacman in 20 years, let's talk about it then