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I don't know if I could come up with a harder question, and I apologize, if anyone has asked this previously (couldn't find it searching) but for me, tonight I'm going to say my alltime favorite decade of boxing was the 1920's, which just edges out the 1930's.

Anything from the 60's through the 80's. I guess if I had to choose I'd go with the 70's. Great stuff from Flyweight to Heavyweight.

The 90's, because even though I didnt become a fight fan until the decade was effectively half-over, its still the era I grew up in and experienced the sport for the first time.

80s

90's. Like G,I, this decade was also the era i found interest in the sport.

For me, the 90's decade was HUGE.

the 1980's for me

hagler-leonard
leonard-duran
leonard-hearns
hearns-duran
hearns-hagler
holmes-cooney
arguello-pryor

this was my teen years and the best memories of the sport for me.

2000-2009, The decade I started watching boxing, therefore the only one I can really comment fully on, though I have a good deal of 90's fights in my Boxing Tape collection.

gilgamesh wrote:2000-2009, The decade I started watching boxing, therefore the only one I can really comment fully on, though I have a good deal of 90's fights in my Boxing Tape collection.

Historically, 1896-1905 (if you count the decade as a ten year period - otherwise a tie between the 1890s and the 1900s - the emergence of the MQ era, the legal status of boxing, and a number of excellent, pioneer fighters.)

That I've watched, the 1970s. It was a great time to be involved in boxing.

Loved the mid to late 80's as thats when my interest really took off....apart from the names Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, you had great grudge fights and characters ie Pazienza v Haugen, Calvin Grove v Jorge Paez, Tyson, Chavez, Rosario, Macho Camacho and so on.

Great time, as a fight fan.

The 1930's--not many of us still around that remembers the great fights held in small clubs

muray wrote:The 1930's--not many of us still around that remembers the great fights held in small clubs

Muray, any clubs fights you care to remember?

it would probably be the 80s even tho i dont recall watching fights with my dad clearly till around 86.but loved the rest of the decade rather id say 86-91 was the best period for me in terms of time watched.....but id love to have been around during the 1970s to see the HW division than.

1980s - Starting the decade with The Fantastic 4 dominating the sport, plus my favourite fighter, Matthew Saad Muhammad doing his real life LHW version of Rocky Balboa; then onto the mid 80s with new generation of weltwerweights to take over from the likes of Leonard & Hearns, culminating with the emergence of Iron Mike Tyson, who cut a swathe through HW boxing like a tornado.

I actually readlly enjoyed the 1990s too, with the likes of Benn, Eubank, Collins, Watson, Toney, Benn, Jones Jr, Whittaker, Chavez, Taylor etc, plus the 'Silver Age' of the HW division & the emergence of Mayweather Jr, but the 1980s shaded it for me, because it was the late 1990s when boxing began to decline with even more proliferation of titles & the loss of boxing on terrestrial TV. :x

I love watching films from the 'Golden Age' of the 30s and 40s, but sadly there aren't that many high quality films from the era.

The 70s for me.

Then the 80s

Forget about the last decade...To me, the worst ever in boxing. I hope this decade gives me better thrills in this sport. I don't want to see, Thank goodness, guys like Oscar De La Hoya or Felix "Tito" Trinidad.

You didnt know what you were looking at when you watched them anyway.

40's-50's-60's-70's boxing films. Random Common people knew they're boxing back then. Nowadays,you ask people what boxers they know of and 9 out of every 10 will only know of Ali and Tyson,(And maybe Foreman,only because of the lean mean grilling machine )they dont even know anyone from they're own freakin era. That one out of ten exception,know of Pac and Mayweather,WOW ! Knowledge of modern boxing !

Maybe i'm excaggerating,but i think definately only a slight bit. I think you's basically get my point though.

muray wrote:The 1930's--not many of us still around that remembers the great fights held in small clubs

M,I remember going to all the NY clubs every night of the week sans Sunday in the 1940s...And MSG on Friday nights. The 1940s was my favorite decade...

Goodnight, Irene wrote:You didnt know what you were looking at when you watched them anyway.

Yes, I know what I was watching: Garbage, ha ha ha ha

Can we see your top-100 yet?

Holmes / Peak Tyson
Saad Muhammed / Spinks / Qawi
Hagler / Leonard / Hearns / Duran / Benitez / McCallum / Curry
Arguello / Pryor
Sanchez / Gomez / Nelson / Chavez / Pedroza
Galaxy

It's definitely the 80's for me, unbelievable decade!!!!

The 50s or the 80s.

70s ,80s and 2020s

For me is the 70's.

De Jesus the reason of why I'm a boxing fan.
Benitez
El Salsero Escalera
Duran
Chacon
Arguello
Olivares
Ali
Holmes
Frazier
Foreman
Monzon
Griffith
and so many others.

It depends on if we are talking about amateur or professional , and if we are
talking about title fights or boxing in general.

My pick for the Golden Age of Amateur Boxing in British Colubia
is 1939 to 1968. Also, for pro boxing in general the Sixties hit the mark
for great tragedies in 1962 BENNY PARET and 1963 DAVEY MOORE and then
greatness re-invented with the Louisville Lip CASSIUS CLAY who of course
would become MUHAMMAD ALI. But, there was nothing like Ali when he was
CLAY with his victories over SONNY LISTON and then onto exciting fights and
controversy. The Sixties saw the end of the great SUGAR RAY ROBINSON but
some interesting battles with the likes of Harold Johnson, Willie Pastrano,
Jose Torres, Dick Tiger, Gene Fullmer, Emile Griffith, Joe Brown, Carlos Ortiz,
Vincente Saldivar and Eder Jofre. And some may not rank it high in the best
fights but FLOYD PATTERSON vs EDDIE MACHEN was an important fight for Floyd,
and one of the best fights for classy moves was the 1966 EMILE GRIFFITH vs JOEY ARCHER
Then it was 1964 and JOE FRAZIER lucked-in when BUSTER MATHIS could not make the
Olympic team due to an injury. Well with that, the rest is history and JOE FRAZIER would blast his
way to the heavyweight title when the bout with JIMMY ELLIS was made.

With the Seventies and beyond there was this creation of new divisions and a grab bag of organizations with so many different champions with their versions of a title. Take a look at the early nineties and it was a great big joke with any good boxer able to win some so called world or international title, and the beat goes on.