Tell me a better year of boxing than 2017

[Taansend]

Joshua vs klitschko was the most dramatic elite heavyweight fight in centurys,

So that was the most dramatic heavyweight fight in over 200 years

[Jip]

I ment decade...

[Taansend]

I ment decade...

I did think it was a bit weird

[Jip]

I ment decade...

I did think it was a bit weird

[SaadOffTheDeck]

In all honesty. I heard so many "back in 80 and 90 every year was better than 2017. So 20 + years were better than 2p17 but hardly anyone can tell me the exact year or years when they were better.

Just tell me 1 year that was better than..

Kovalev ward 2
Klitschko joshua
Brook spence
Thurman garcia
GGG canelo
GGG jacobs
Gonzales wangek
Breidis huck
Usyk hunter
Stevenson fonfara 2
Porter berto
Lomachenko sosa
Santa cruz frampton 2

With 6 month left. Now tell me a year clearly better than this one!

I did, 1970-2007, pick any you'd like.

[jeem918]

2000
Includes great and memorable fights.

Shane Mosley vs Oscar De La Hoya 1
Erik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera 1
Felix Trinidad vs Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas vs Ike Quartey
Lennox Lewis vs Michael Grant
Felix Trinidad vs David Reid
Arturo Gatti vs Joey Gamache
Mike Tyson vs Julius Francis
Jose Luis Castillo vs Stevie Johnston 1
Jose Luis Castillo vs Stevie Johnston 2
Naseem Hamed vs Augie Sanchez
Ray Oliveira vs Vince Phillips
Chris Byrd vs Vitali Klitschko
Lennox Lewis vs David Tua
Wladimir Klitschko vs Chris Byrd

[Jip]

In all honesty. I heard so many "back in 80 and 90 every year was better than 2017. So 20 + years were better than 2p17 but hardly anyone can tell me the exact year or years when they were better.

Just tell me 1 year that was better than..

Kovalev ward 2
Klitschko joshua
Brook spence
Thurman garcia
GGG canelo
GGG jacobs
Gonzales wangek
Breidis huck
Usyk hunter
Stevenson fonfara 2
Porter berto
Lomachenko sosa
Santa cruz frampton 2

With 6 month left. Now tell me a year clearly better than this one!

Lex
I did, 1970-2007, pick any you'd like.

No year in particular. 2000 comes to my mind.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

In all honesty. I heard so many "back in 80 and 90 every year was better than 2017. So 20 + years were better than 2p17 but hardly anyone can tell me the exact year or years when they were better.

Just tell me 1 year that was better than..

Kovalev ward 2
Klitschko joshua
Brook spence
Thurman garcia
GGG canelo
GGG jacobs
Gonzales wangek
Breidis huck
Usyk hunter
Stevenson fonfara 2
Porter berto
Lomachenko sosa
Santa cruz frampton 2

With 6 month left. Now tell me a year clearly better than this one!

Lex
I did, 1970-2007, pick any you'd like.

No year in particular. 2000 comes to my mind.

I don't have all of it memorized but the only year I'd be comfortable saying this year is better than is 2016.

[Impractical Poster]

Jip, I truly appreciate your enthusiasm.

[Bricks]

!970-2007 for starters. It's been much better, but you're losing your mind. Every year I grew up was better by a lot.

Yes.

I rate 1989 very highly...

Duran-barkley
Duran-srl
Srl-hearns 2
Tyson-bruno
Honeyghan v starling
Nunn v kalambay
Norris v jackson
Benn v watson
Mancini v camacho
Mccallum v graham
Mcguigan v mcdonnel
Nelson-mcdonnel
Czyzv hill
The rise of michael moorer
The olympic pro debuts show
Fighters like foreman,chavez,nelson,whittaker,taylor,ray mercer,tommy morrison very active, the first signs of ussr entry into pro boxing...

[gilgamesh]

It's infinitely better than last year already no doubt.

My favorite years as a Boxing fan have been 2003 and 2005. I look forward to seeing years when those can be topped, but because these years were some of my earliest years of Boxing fandom they'll always have a special place for me.

2003 was especially awesome to me because we got 4 amazing FOTY candidate kinda fights right in in 3 consecutive months.

James Toney vs Vassily Jirov
Leonard Dorin vs Paul Spadafora
Gatti vs Ward 3
and Lewis vs Vitali Klitschko

[Jip]

!970-2007 for starters. It's been much better, but you're losing your mind. Every year I grew up was better by a lot.

Yes.

I rate 1989 very highly...

Duran-barkley
Duran-srl
Srl-hearns 2
Tyson-bruno
Honeyghan v starling
Nunn v kalambay
Norris v jackson
Benn v watson
Mancini v camacho
Mccallum v graham
Mcguigan v mcdonnel
Nelson-mcdonnel
Czyzv hill
The rise of michael moorer
The olympic pro debuts show
Fighters like foreman,chavez,nelson,whittaker,taylor,ray mercer,tommy morrison very active, the first signs of ussr entry into pro boxing...[/quote


Wtf. This truly was sm amazing year of boxing. Hard to beat 89

[Jip]

Jip, I truly appreciate your enthusiasm.

Thanks IP

[Jip]

Like i said before. I think a lot of people have the nostalgia glasses on. Hardly anyone can name me a year better than 2017

2000 and 1989, no doubt these years were better than 2017 i get it. But lets not forget, also in the glory past very important fights werent made. Jones not boxing michalchewski. Floyd not boxing casamayor or tszyu. Tyson against bowe or moorer didnt happen. Toney against eubank or benn. So please lets not pretend that everything was easy & uncomplicated in the 80 and 90.

[Bricks]

1991
Holyfield v foreman
Srl v norris.
Hearns v hill
Fenech v nelson
Tyson v ruddock I & II
Mccallum v toney
Nunn v toney
Lewis v mason
Mercer v morrison
Camacho v haughan.
Mitchell v lopez
Eubanks v watson I & II
Whittaker v paez

[Jip]

1991
Holyfield v foreman
Srl v norris.
Hearns v hill
Fenech v nelson
Tyson v ruddock I & II
Mccallum v toney
Nunn v toney
Lewis v mason
Mercer v morrison
Camacho v haughan.
Mitchell v lopez
Eubanks v watson I & II
Whittaker v paez

Good job B

Exceptional year. 2000. 1991. 1989 are 3 of the best years ever in boxing. Wounder if it can get any better this.

[Jip]

What yall think 2002

Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson
Oscar de la Hoya vs Fernando Vargas
Sugar Shane Mosley vs Vernon Forrest 2
Sugar Shane Mosley vs Vernon Forrest
Erik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera 2
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Johny Tapia

[Bricks]

1991
Holyfield v foreman
Srl v norris.
Hearns v hill
Fenech v nelson
Tyson v ruddock I & II
Mccallum v toney
Nunn v toney
Lewis v mason
Mercer v morrison
Camacho v haughan.
Mitchell v lopez
Eubanks v watson I & II
Whittaker v paez

Good job B

Exceptional year. 2000. 1991. 1989 are 3 of the best years ever in boxing. Wounder if it can get any better this.

Nice thread u started jip.and i like your attitude

[Bricks]

An interesting way of revealing how much stronger the depth and talent in boxing was back in the years saad mentioned is to take any given year lets say 1990 which was a strong year for fights made ( tyson-anddouglas,cooney-foreman,taylor-chavez ,benn v barkley for starters) and look at the fights that could have been made but werent made in many cases these fights were never made

1990
Tyson v holyfield
Tyson v foreman
Julian jackson v duran
Srl v nunn
Hearns v benn
Fenech v mitchell
Ruddock v holyfield
Starling v norris
Mccallum v benn
Whittaker v camacho
Nelson v chavez

[IKSRTFO]

Like i said before. I think a lot of people have the nostalgia glasses on. Hardly anyone can name me a year better than 2017

2000 and 1989, no doubt these years were better than 2017 i get it. But lets not forget, also in the glory past very important fights werent made. Jones not boxing michalchewski. Floyd not boxing casamayor or tszyu. Tyson against bowe or moorer didnt happen. Toney against eubank or benn. So please lets not pretend that everything was easy & uncomplicated in the 80 and 90.

And there will be important fights in 2017 that still aren't made:
Pacquiao Crawofrd
Stevenson Ward
Stevenson Kovalev
Thurman Spence
Thurman Brook
Bradley Spence
Bradley Brook
Bradley Thurman
Pacquiao Thurman
Degale Jack 2
Joshua Wilder

[Jip]

Like i said before. I think a lot of people have the nostalgia glasses on. Hardly anyone can name me a year better than 2017

2000 and 1989, no doubt these years were better than 2017 i get it. But lets not forget, also in the glory past very important fights werent made. Jones not boxing michalchewski. Floyd not boxing casamayor or tszyu. Tyson against bowe or moorer didnt happen. Toney against eubank or benn. So please lets not pretend that everything was easy & uncomplicated in the 80 and 90.

And there will be important fights in 2017 that still aren't made:
Pacquiao Crawofrd
Stevenson Ward
Stevenson Kovalev
Thurman Spence
Thurman Brook
Bradley Spence
Bradley Brook
Bradley Thurman
Pacquiao Thurman
Degale Jack 2
Joshua Wilder

I mean if every mayor important fight had been made from the 90 till now, than boxing would be as big as nfl or nba. I mean i have no problem that boxing is a niche sport, makes it more elitair, but i am just saying.

Imagine all boxers prime:

Tyson vs bowe
Mayweather vs pacquiao
Mayweather vs tszyu
Mayweather vs margarito
Jones vs michalchewski
Kovalev vs stevenson

The list goes on and on....i think thats why it would be important to have 1 belt. 1 champion of the world and only the top guys face each other that crap like floyd against guerrero or pacquiao against algieri dont happen.

[IKSRTFO]

Like i said before. I think a lot of people have the nostalgia glasses on. Hardly anyone can name me a year better than 2017

2000 and 1989, no doubt these years were better than 2017 i get it. But lets not forget, also in the glory past very important fights werent made. Jones not boxing michalchewski. Floyd not boxing casamayor or tszyu. Tyson against bowe or moorer didnt happen. Toney against eubank or benn. So please lets not pretend that everything was easy & uncomplicated in the 80 and 90.

And there will be important fights in 2017 that still aren't made:
Pacquiao Crawofrd
Stevenson Ward
Stevenson Kovalev
Thurman Spence
Thurman Brook
Bradley Spence
Bradley Brook
Bradley Thurman
Pacquiao Thurman
Degale Jack 2
Joshua Wilder

I mean if every mayor important fight had been made from the 90 till now, than boxing would be as big as nfl or nba. I mean i have no problem that boxing is a niche sport, makes it more elitair, but i am just saying.

Imagine all boxers prime:

Tyson vs bowe
Mayweather vs pacquiao
Mayweather vs tszyu
Mayweather vs margarito
Jones vs michalchewski
Kovalev vs stevenson

The list goes on and on....i think thats why it would be important to have 1 belt. 1 champion of the world and only the top guys face each other that crap like floyd against guerrero or pacquiao against algieri dont happen.

That's one of the reasons why the game has declined and while 2017 is a great year, won't be the best year because in the past, fewer belts left very few questions unanswered.

[Bricks]

Thats not true.if anything matches are being made now far moreso than the past

Also the big matches or matches that dont take place of 2017 all more or less revolve around ww,lh,hw...

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Like i said before. I think a lot of people have the nostalgia glasses on. Hardly anyone can name me a year better than 2017

2000 and 1989, no doubt these years were better than 2017 i get it. But lets not forget, also in the glory past very important fights werent made. Jones not boxing michalchewski. Floyd not boxing casamayor or tszyu. Tyson against bowe or moorer didnt happen. Toney against eubank or benn. So please lets not pretend that everything was easy & uncomplicated in the 80 and 90.

And there will be important fights in 2017 that still aren't made:
Pacquiao Crawofrd
Stevenson Ward
Stevenson Kovalev
Thurman Spence
Thurman Brook
Bradley Spence
Bradley Brook
Bradley Thurman
Pacquiao Thurman
Degale Jack 2
Joshua Wilder

Maybe 1 of those fights gets made if we're lucky.

[squiggy]

This thread is like "Name a better boxer in the sport's history than Julio Diaz. Go on, I'll wait."

I'm going to go with Mate Parlov.