Who is the best American heavyweight right now?

Probably Anderson.

 

Realistically I think its still Jared Anderson. Even though he was just KOd by Bakole, has defensive liabilities, and comes off slightly crazy.

Miller is probably next as he deserved a win over Ruiz, but its not like it was looking like he was a world beater.

Ruiz is talented but has eaten away his prime and isn't dedicated .

Hunters last significant fight was Povetkin and then he signed with some upstart promotion (if im remembering this right) and has dwelled in obscurity, his most notable results in the last 5 years being his draw vs Jerry Forrest and a loss that isn't a loss in a 10 round "exhibition" vs suslenkov. He is also 36. Its a shame because it looked like at one point he was going to make a real run there.

Torres Jr is half cabbage patch kid and is a KO waiting to happen, though he has an entertaining style.

Jermaine Franklin jr, blessed with a chin cursed with a lack of power. Seems like a decent guy but he has fringe contender/gatekeeper written all over him. His lack of punch though may give him some more opportunities.

Chainey is 37 and just a guy

Guidry is 5'11 and 287.

Shaw got an opportunity on a main event on ESPN and proceeded to stink the joint out in a decision loss vs Ajagba. Then in his next fight was KOd.

Wilder is 1-4 in his last 5 and rapidly approaching 40 years old. He looks shot.

 

Jeremiah Milton certainly seems better than both of them.

But he's been focusing on serving as the main sparring partner for Joshua and getting guys like Nganou ready for his big fights in Saudi, rather than fighting himself.

Must be making more money doing that than fighting for Top Rank.

 

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Milton: "A lot of things have to go right to land certain opportunities. I’m thankful to have my talents recognized and I’ll keep applying Hard Work."

 

Sadly all our (I say our as an American) big strong Athletes are just not interested in Boxing. NFL Football absolutely fuels the sports fix in this country. They are all groomed young for mostly football and basketball.


As far as the poll I voted Miller he gave Fat Andy a pretty good spanking, score cards be damned.

 

One convenient thing that Americans leave out when they make their sour grapes excuses about HWs is they dont have highly paid sports leagues for basically anyone who is like MW sized or lower. Most of the rest of the world has soccer taking up the vast majority of athletes of that size. So why dont Americans completely dominate those lower weight classes either?

 

This

 

The Andy Ruiz-Hunter fight was 20 years ago in the amateurs. You don't have to go back 20 years to see Ruiz knock out Joshua.

Guys like Miller (against Dubois), Ruiz drawing with Miller and Wilder losing to Zhang all came against top heavyweights.

Hunter just lost in April to Artem Suslenkov, who isn't a top heavyweight. Neither is Jerry Forrest, who beat Hunter up.

All praises to Bakole, who is on a massive role right now, knocking off guys earmarked for bigger things, like Yoka and Anderson. He's great fun to watch. A real banger.

But Hunter didn't win those fights. Bakole did.

 

Nope.

Michael Hunter this year, when he wasn't losing to Artem.

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it's depressing if you're a us heavyweight fan