Who are your favorite heavyweights right now? Who do you like the least?

Favorite Deontay Wilder

Heavyweight I loathe, Tyson Fury.

 

I am going only sport-related, as I can't know those guys personally in order to judge them, even if I have to comment on such as an obvious lowlife as Wilder - favourite: Fury because he is an ATG who sh*its on his legacy, sadly. Also, Hrgovic, who has yet to prove himself and Dubois, who despite his shameful performance against Lerena, went into the deep waters of professional boxing with poor experience, yet he was leading on the scorecards against Joyce. I used to like Parker, but this man seems to have lost his passion for the sport and I think he had and probably still has the chance to become a big name if he decides to approach it differently.

Which one do I dislike: AJ for being a coward. The guy was great against Wlad and if I compare the experience of (even) older Wlad against AJ - Wlad was more dominant, but his glass jaw and chicken heart brought him the loss, while at the same time, AJ put a great effort to beat him. But that was all. Another one I dislike is Usyk because the man has the size of a heavyweight, but cowardly had a career as a cruiser where he had a draw against Briedis, but was given a victory. Sure, he is a schoolbook of what a southpaw must be and is a great boxer, but there is where it all ends. Overhyping anyone surely proves there is something wrong with him.

 

I like what Anderson is doing, hes confident and seems to enjoy fighting. It's early and the wheels could still fall off but he seems the real deal and I hope he takes over soon. Zhang and Joyce are pretty drama free, so that's to be respected. I'm finding the rest of the lot rather annoying, although I enjoy watching many of them fight.

 

I like that list ... and as much as I dislike Wilder, he's an interesting component of the division. Fury, I'm fed up with, but when he's actually in the ring he brings a lot to the table.

Over the years, I've followed HWs as amateurs and then followed their progress once they turn pro. Usyk was one (the European forum here alerted me to him early on, Povetkin was another. At the moment I'm interested to see how Danier Pero (younger brother of Lanier) takes shape. As an Australian, I want to see Huni rise and make waves ... he's had some frustrating setbacks but over the long term he and Pero are likely going to be knocking on Jalalov's door.

When I was really young I liked Tyson (Mike), but I also had a lot of respect for Oliver McCall. Those second tier gatekeeper/occasional belt shot fighters with their own unique attributes are good to follow. Perhaps Gurgen

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might be heading there, or maybe he's better than that.

Main thing tho is HWs who are reasonably active. The once a year if that activity of the top fighters is killing that division.

 

Usyk
Fury
Zhang
AJ
Ruiz
Joyce
Anderson
Parker
Ortiz
Wilder

 

The sanctioning orgs will cull the cash cows from their herds the day after hell freezes over.

 

Not that I rate him highest, but as far as skill/action/style, I will take Joshua still. The stopping power, the uppercuts, and for his build the quickness too. Usyk is awesome but I never really enjoyed the wacky awkward movement and lack of thud to his shots. Some of these guys being mentioned I'm not schooled on though. Been very hard to keep up with recently outside the top few guys. Really a big gap between Fury's skill and how much I enjoy watching him. He's very creative and instinctual in the best way for him, but outside of fringe moments Joshua's action > Usyk/Fury for me. Fury might be my least favorite that I'm familiar with. I don't hate him or watching him or anything that bad. But least favorite. I find Whyte, Wilder and Chisora pretty fun guys when they're on.

 

I like the ones that actually bother to fight

 

But how can you justify Tyson’s antics with regards to the Usyk fight?

 

I love Joe.

But he needs to beat Zhang in the rematch.

Is Tyson up there with the legends yet?

 

Your posts are bizarre.

AJ is a coward? Really?

Usyk is a coward for staying at CW? Really?

And actually calling fighters cowards?

Another joke post.

 

Like Daniel Dubois think he has potential to go far

 

Sod off, horsefly. Too complicated for you, so it is bizarre.

 

I like fighters who simply fight the best available and who give fans good fights. So my favourite heavies are Chisora, Joshua, Usyk, Joyce.

I'm ambivalent towards most heavyweights, while I think guys like Makhmudov are overrated and guys like Anderson are unproven, I don't dislike them. But I also don't like them.

Only heavyweights I probably dislike is Wilder from his preventing unification to the bonkers conspiracy BS after he lost to Fury and Miller who from being lazy and a PED cheat is the epitome of the worst of heavyweight boxing.

As for Fury, he's like marmite, love him or hate him and that can change as often as he decides to retire and unretire. I didn't like him before or after Wlad but didn't hate him, his PED ban did nothing to change my view on him, if anything it made me lose what respect he had earned from the Wlad win. I did like him during the trilogy with Wilder but that had more to do with how much I wanted to see the ducker get his ass beat. Now I'm ambivalent, I'll never be a fan or his, too much BS during his career for that, but I don't hate him. But that might change if he does indeed duck Usyk.