Most talent laden division currently?

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  1. james5000

    james5000 2010's poster of the decade Full Member

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    Not only is it the deepest division, I believe the WBSS winner should be considered p4p no1
     
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  2. james5000

    james5000 2010's poster of the decade Full Member

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    WBSS has just made it so much easier to find a conclusive dominant champ, the winner will probably be very interested in moving up to find a new challenge and for further glory and money.

    There might be an exodus soon but maybe that will lead to an even stronger heavyweight division.

    I am starting to believe these guys are more than good enough to compete with the big boys tbh
     
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  3. Kevin Willis

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    Yeah I agree: Especially after what I have seen recently.
     
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  4. fistsof steel

    fistsof steel Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Been a lot of Criticism of the Middleweight Division but it's going OK....
     
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  5. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ

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    I think a lot of the s__tting on the 160 division was due to some fans not wanting to admit some Kazach fighter's skillevel.
    It wasn't that good, but not nearly as bad as some made it out to be.
     
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  6. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Here's my ranking of the division from Strongest to Weakest.

    1. Cruiserweight
    2. Light Heavyweight
    3. Middleweight
    4. Super Flyweight
    5. Super Lightweight
    6. Welterweight
    7. Super Featherweight
    8. Featherweight
    9. Super Welterweight
    10. Super Middleweight
    11. Heavyweight
    12. Super Bantamweight
    13. Bantamweight
    14. Flyweight
    15. Lightweight
    16. Light Flyweight
    17. Strawweight

    Here's the rest of the divisions notables, to me anyway, aside from the ones IB listed.

    HW - Browne, Miller, Kaybayel, Kuzmin, Hughie, Haye, Kownacki, Wallin, Whyte, Zhang, Rivas, Kean.

    SMW - Uzcategui, Dirrell, Dirrell, Gavril, Sirotkin, Murdock, Hart, Zeuge, Plant, Medina, Singh, Abdugofurov.

    SWW - Brook, Castano, Soro, Ali, Eggington, Islam, Kurbanov, Sergio Garcia, Vitu, Culcay, Cheeseman, Beefy, Liam Williams.

    WW - Abduquxorov, Kavaliauskas, Lejarraja, Skeete, Matthysse, Clayton, Besputin, Santillan, Benavidez, Mikhaylenko

    SLW - Taylor, Prograis, Ramirez, Barroso, Davies, Okada, Rivera, Lopez, Zepeda, Saucedo, Baranchyk, Leather, Eston, Seldin, Ulysse Jr.

    LW - Commey, Fortuna, Carlos Diaz Ramirez, Petrov, Malikov, Gesta, Vences, Tagoe, Martin.

    SFW - Roman, Vargas, Salido, Sosa, Ogawa, Alexeev, Ward, Cacace, Christopher Diaz, Chuprakov, De Leon, Jonfer, Rakhimov.

    FW - J. M. Rojas, Jojo, Magsayo, Galahad, Lara, Tepora, Nyambayar, Xu, Warrington, Mares, Bellotti, Pagara, Shimizu, Marrero, Lowe.

    SBW - Ceja, Oguni, Kubo, Yafai, Medina, Ward, Rios.

    BW - Payano, Narvaez, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Solis, Moloney, Zhakiyanov, Oubaali, Aloyan.
     
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  7. Kevin Willis

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    Good post and F straweight and light fly weight.
     
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  8. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    There's a handful of good fighters, some really impressive ones at SW and LFW, like Kyoguchi and Taguchi, who I'm a big fan of, but there's no real comp there, they need to eat bigger meals, and jack themselves up about 6 or 7 pounds and all fight at Flyweight, where the real action starts, and if they get KTFO, then oh well, if the best you can beat are a bunch of dainty little 100lb ladyboys, then maybe Boxing isn't for you.
     
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  9. Charles van Doren

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    Cruiser
    Middleweight
    Welter
     
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  10. Bensub

    Bensub Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Featherweight is where it is at for me ATM. Hope they all end up fighting each other.
     
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  11. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Chris Eubank Jr. isn't anyway near anyone sane's p4p list.

    He's fought one world level fighter pre-prime and lost and beaten a washed up AA. If he beats Groves then he can start to talk some but until then he's done nothing of any real note.
     
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  12. chitownfightfan

    chitownfightfan Loyal Member Full Member

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    MW/CW have been the best IMO since 2016/2017.
    LHW continues to excite. But chickenson just won't challenge himself and is Beterbiev dragging a ball and chain. He should be making 3/4 a yr.

    HW is solid. Nice future, but aside from the ambitious Joshua and Parker, everyone else is being coddled or inactive.
     
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  13. Kevin Willis

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    The smallest weightclass for both disciplines of International wrestling are 121 lbs so I could never understand why boxing went so low. Even amateur boxing goes down to like 108 I believe. FW or SFW are plenty light enough and anything lower just seems like an exercise in the bizarre to me.

    If you are so small your best fighting weight is below like 115 then what can I say, eat a steak and do some squats and fight at a weight that would not make most super models blush.
     
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  14. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think CW and MW... Could Argue GGG is p4p number 1 and Canelo number 4.
    Usyk, Briedis ans Gassiev are all p4p contenders, Usyk potentially top 3-5.
     
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  15. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    Good sorting. :thumbsup:
     
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