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Reading Duran's book at the moment, and I was wondering when was the best division at any point in time?

'79 Welterweight division had Cuevas, Palomino, Benitez, Duran, Hearns and Leonard.

'72 Heavyweight springs to mind as another with Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Patterson, Foster, Quarry, Bugner and Norton all active.

Are there any better?

I started a thread a while back titled "Strongest Divisions By Year" that alot of good responses.

Emerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:Reading Duran's book at the moment, and I was wondering when was the best division at any point in time?

'79 Welterweight division had Cuevas, Palomino, Benitez, Duran, Hearns and Leonard.

'72 Heavyweight springs to mind as another with Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Patterson, Foster, Quarry, Bugner and Norton all active.

Are there any better?

Neither of those are tops/

The 1950s middleweight division, 1940s Light HW, 1930s lightweights etc. were all very DEEP divisions.

The deepest division that comes to mind in my book is the lightweight era of the 1940s: Ike Williams, Beau Jack, Sammy Angott, Bob Montgomery, Juan Zurita, Willie Joyce, Lew Jenkins, Enrique Bolanos, Allie Stolz...What a great crop of fighters!!!