Why has Cruiserweight boxing never took off

Nobody agrees with your weird criteria. He fights over 250.

 

I think the WBA did for a while

 

So does Andy Ruiz lol. Hell, everybody can be a SHW, David Tua, too

 

And in historical heavyweight terms they are first and foremost bonefide classic sized heavyweights

I recon Ali was taller. Whytes listed height is grossly inaccurate.

 

Speaking of weird divisions, is there still a Bridgerweight Division, or did that crash and burn?

 

Correct. I believe they had Qawi-Holy as a “Junior Heavyweight bout” from memory anyways.

 

6ft4 isn’t a SHW but if you measure him in the morning he is. One inch DQ and for some reason Butterbean is more of a SHW then Wlad who wouldn’t be by his odd ball criteria.

 

Yes. Oscar Rivas is the champ.

 

I wouldn't dream of excluding 6'4, 315 Jarrell Miller from SHW.

 

Probably because the best fighters always move out of the division, and doesn't really have the historical factor behind it.

 

Envious fanboy. Mr Big Wheels was 6ft7 a rumoured 7fter but racist cops prevented him from being fully measured vertically.

 

Whyte claims to be 6'3 now, in reality is 6'2. Also 6'5 240 pounds is more than reasonable for SHW. Miller, Rivas, Whyte etc are just little HWs of yesterday blown up to try to imitate real SHWs, but all the extra mass will just damage their fighting because they're not built to support it.

 

I hope so.