If today's HW division is so terrible, then why didn't Rahman win?

Keep trolling, it's the only thing you are good at apparently.

 

Rahman is the one who makes this era so terrible by getting title shot!

 

did you girl got gangbanged by eastern europeans or something? so they beat you in boxing just **** off and die, stop poluting message boards with your racist ****

 

Ali fought against a guy with 8-0 record and lost, so according to you the 70 is even shiittier then current division? tool

 

the fact that it went over smoothly wherever the fight was held shows how shitty the division has become.

 

shut the **** up you klitland real estate broker and stop riding klitschko dick.

 

Foreman in his prime=Great fighter
Rahman in his prime= Decent fighter

Foreman at 45= Decent fighter with good skills but very slow and plodding. And a big punch and great chin
Rahman at 40= Complete bum with no chin

Moorer looked AMAZING and beat the living **** out of Foreman before Foreman more or less got a little lucky. Also out of all the Linear champs of the 90s Moorer(while good) was still the worst outside of Shannon Briggs. He also had a glass chin.

Didn't Holyfield get robbed vs Valuev?

Oh and Foreman's win was shocking and record breaking and you wont find another career in history like Foreman's.

Now STFU.

 

This is not a prime Rahman man.

 

Oh and Rahman was just there for the pay check while Foreman actually wanted to win and tried.

 

What a ridiculous thread. The point that Rahman was fighting for ANY title at all, the point that Charr, Mormeck and Chisora all fought for titles illustrates the division STINKS. Both stamina and skills have fallen way off as well adding to the divisions woes.

 

:yep

 

There are two terrific fighters in the entire division. Povetkin would be a punching bag in the underrated early 90's. These fights are ****ing painful to watch there is so much fail between the ropes.

THREAD FAIL!

 

Cause Povetkin is an ATG. Idiot.

 

Maybe because Holyfield was absolutely ****ing robbed against Valuev. Hell he did a better job on him than Haye did.

 

"The heavyweight division is at an all time worst," has been as constant as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west for the past 60 years. If you can get your hands on some old issues of boxing magazines such as the Ring or KO you can see "the heavyweight division is in its poorest state ever," etc in every issue you care to thumb through. Ten years from now it will be said and written that the future heavyweight division is worse than the heavyweight division we are talking about right now. Of course, that does not mean that evaluation is right. There are a lot of factors the supposedly super knowledgeable boxing writers and boxing fans simply overlook and don't apply to their argument that the heavyweight division is at its all time worst. Do you really think the heavyweight division was better when athletes were not allowed to compete for the heavyweight title because of their race i.e. "the color line"? Was the heavyweight division better than it is now back when the mob controlled boxing? You can watch the Carmen Basilio vs the Mob documentary and Basilio comments that he did not bother hiring a trainer until several years into his professional career. How far do you think a boxer, even a heavyweight, would get doing that now? I'll venture a guess and say not far. Also, the mafia was not interested in increasing the quality of the sport as they were increasing the money in their pockets. Was the heavyweight world championship really a world champion when The Iron Curtain prevented competitors the world-over from competing for the "world" championship? Does anybody think that Teofilio Stevenson as a professional would have greatly affect the history of the world heavyweight championship? Nowadays if a Teofilio Stevenson was inclined to fight professional he would have a better chance at making it to the pro ranks. Was the heavyweight division better when Don King pulled the strings on every title fight? There ought to be plenty of people reading this and remembering back when King ruled the heavyweight division and controlled the rankings and title fights and they should also remember how infrequently the best fighters fought each other. Events like the best vs the best happend as often as leap years. I have been watching the heavyweight division for a while and I remember how Mike Tyson energized the heavyweight division because he was a rarity, a heavyweight who threw punches with "bad intentions", God bless Tyson, but consider what the division was like before he appeared on the scene. The way I remember it, the heavyweight division was a bunch of alphabet champions that never fought each other and they were disparaged as the worst lot of heavyweights ever in the boxing publications at the time. I watched the heavyweight division pre-Tyson and basically figured out "the silent contract", in which neither fighter seemed interested in throwing punches with bad intentions, when I first heard Teddy Atlas make the comment about "the silent contract" decades later I instantly knew what he meant. I remembered two flabby heavyweights posturing and pawing at each other the rare times they weren't holding each other tight in a clinch. Believe me, the heavyweight divisioin was not better back then. Also, there were times when the title didn't change hands because of a bad decision, many times, in fact. Has the current champion ever been given a gift decision? No. Is the heavyweight division at its ALL TIME WORST, hell no. Only a fool would believe that IMO.