The greatest heavyweight boxing decade in history was dominated by some of the best fighters of all time.  Four of the top ten heavyweights ever to step into a ring [as voted in 2017 by a panel of experts from The Ring magazine] fought in the 1970s.  Three of them – Muhammad Ali [#1], George Foreman [#7] and Joe Frazier [#8] defined the sport’s Golden Age.

The heavyweight division was loaded in the 70s.  George Chuvalo, Ron Lyle, Oscar Bonavena, Jerry Quarry and Ernie Shavers all might have held the belt in other eras.  Jimmy Ellis was champion for the first 75 days of the decade, and Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Leon Spinks, and John Tate all owned the heavyweight crown at one time or another during the 1970s.