breaking down this heavyweight era and others: Why today stinks!!

JAB got owned in his own thread. Priceless.

 

WTF?:rofl

Think before ou speak

 

That you cannot anwseratsch

 

Today's heavyweight division sucks solely to the political climate in the United States, where many of the talented prospects are incarcerated and unlike the earlier era where many prisons had boxing programs, today's corporate prison system offers no such alternative programs.
Plus, many top prospects that would have annihilated the Klits were setup and taken out of the picture by contract disputes (Tua) or setup using prostitutues (Ibeabuchi).
Add to that the allowance of the Klits to fight as heavyweights when they should have been in a new Super-heavyweight division due to their extreme size advantage.

 

I think there are 2 main things that make people think that the HW division is bad presently.

1) A lot of the HWs are from different areas besides the U.S. (including the champ).

2) In the 60s/70s, Liston was viewed as this badass who was really intimidating and looked the part of HW champ. But then comes Ali who looked like the guy and was very colorful/entertaining up until he had to step aside in '67. That helped Frazier and Foreman build their legacies. In the 90s, you had kind of the same situation with Tyson/Holyfield/Lewis.

 

Number 2 is no different then today where US politics made Ali sit out and the Jewish mob controlled Liston.

 

Talent in sports doesn't go away.

Name another sport that the "overall talent level is bad".

 

You can't be serious. The talent level in the HW division is terrible. I can't think of an era where more LHWs-CWs have moved up to HW and had success there than this one. Haye, Huck (gave Povetkin hell), Cunningham (nearly knocked out Fury), and Banks (knocked out Mitchell) are all CWs, and they've all have at least some success at HW.

You know something is wrong when fighters from boxing's redheaded step-child division are able to move up and trouble fighters from the so-called "glamour division".

 

please... former CW was ring #1 heavy for the most part of the 90s. I can name few former LHW who were HW lineal champs in 80s and 90s. If you go back 70s or earlier then majority of top boxers where in fact modern cruiserweights.

 

Michael Spinks wasn't even a CW, he was a LHW.

And there wasn't a CW division until 1979, so no, Ali, Frazier, Louis, and Marciano weren't part of the HW division, because at that time, they were legitimate HWs.

Your entire argument comes down to fighters of the past being CWs in today's era. That's how transparent your arguments are.

 

The undeniable truth is, today's heavyweights are far less skilled and disciplined then the last generation. They fight less rounds against lesser opponents, take PED's while getting paid more to do so.

The US heavyweight division has been ruined due to the right wing political agenda where there are far fewer boxing programs and corporate prisons that strive to keep prisoners in the incarceration cycle for profits.
Look at the last US olympic boxing presence and it shows the result of the US's myopic vision with the number of gold medals won.
With all the titles being held hostage by the Ukraine mafia, the HW division has been dead ever since.