Best and worst weight classes right now?

Cruiserweight empties itself out every few years - I'm used to it. Remember what the division was like when Mormeck and Haye had left and right before Lebedev and others got established?

Middleweight is a sadder story. Golden Boy wrecked that division when they had Canelo set off for SMW and LHW. That division is in the worst shape I've ever seen it.

 

You're being way too hard on HW. Fair points about Wilder & AJ and that leads me to the real problem: promoters haven't yet cashed-out a few high-profile fighters. There are definitely several very exciting HWs (Jalolov, Dychko, Makhmudov, Wardley, etc) who could step in at a moment's notice - but are simply being forced to wait their turn. With Fury no longer a prohibitive A-sider who can pause the division indefinitely - this will work itself out in 12 months.

Oh and it's Zhang, not Chang. I'd best most of us would be very happy to see him in a title fight. He can crack.

 

135 isn't that good, it just has the promotional & American Boxing media hype machine behind it

Tank, Huggy Haney, Shakira Twitterson never fought each other, & now Haney is at 140. We know Tank & Shakira won't fight, & Shakira just laid a big fat egg against Edwin in 1 of the biggest stinkers I remember seeing

Loma is clearly past his best

Frank Martin ducked Shakira (& now more will, which puncher would want to be in a stinker like the one against Edwin with him)

So what's so great about 135 except constantly being told by shills like Rick Glaser & Boxing media about how Shakira is the "future of Boxing" & a "superstar", how you are watching a "defensive masterclass" as he runs around the ring for 12 rounds

If guys at superfly had the same hype machine behind them, you would think Armstrong & SRR were reborn

 

140 is in a pretty sweet spot. Matias, Te'o, Prograis, Catterall, Haney, Hitchens, Gary Russell and the ever criminally underrated Sandor Martin. 160 and cruiser are terrible.

 

Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight are pretty dull.

I guess if the Light Heavyweights can make 168lbs they go fight there because that’s where the most talented Welter guys tend to max out. So that’s where the money is at.

And then most of the Light Heavyweights and Cruiserweights don’t have the size or super talent to succeed at Heavyweight. The ones with the talent and size move up to Heavyweight. So it gets kinda stale.

That’s too bad because theoretically those weights can produce great fights.

 

The best is probably 122
The worst is definitely HW.
The division to watch is JWW to WW

 

How MW is better than HW?

 

Golovkin (retirment notwithstanding) Zhanibek, Sergiy, Adames and Lara are respectively a far better top 5 than the top 5 at HW. Plus, I admit 6-10 at MW ain't that great yet.........but 6-10 at HW is even worse...................IMO

 

HW isn't a bad division. The main problem is inactivity and not enough contender fights.

 

122 is best. I also like 168 (Canelo, Benavidez, Andrade, Plant, Morrell Jr, Jermall).

140 has potential too.

I think 147 is weak though (both Crawford and Spence are probably moving up with the latter almost definitely...and aside from Ennis? Thurman is basically retired and even when he wasn't how good was he? Prime undefeated Thurman got laid out by old, shot Pac). So at 147 you have Crawford (for now, but maybe not) and Ennis...then?? Thurman and Stanionis?? Neither Thurman nor Stanionis seem to care about winning..just want paydays and step aside money

 

I think the bantamweight division is pretty mediocre. While we may know the names they are mostly a bunch of guys who lost to Inoue or would have lost to a younger Donaire. At the moment, there isn't a fighter in the division with any chance of going to the Hall of Fame and none of them are close to the the current top twenty pound for pound fighters.