Is cruiserweight the worst division atm?

CW is great, though very Eurocentric I'm afraid.

 

Straw weight and super middle.

 

Cruiser has been really good for several years now & regularly produces great fights. There's virtually no American interest so it often fails to get the respect it currently deserves.

Super-fly is the worst division in boxing right now imo

 

Evander Holyfield is the greatest Cruiser of all time, it was a great division when he fought there. Mainly because he became Undisputed after cleaning it up, Cruisers nowaday are either too slow for Light Heavy or not good enough for Tyson Fury. Most Cruisers walk into the ring 220 lbs. 190 limit was possibly better

 

I don't think CW is that bad. Some decent fights last year with my favourite being Jones/Lebedev. Throw Cleverly and Bellew into the mix and it's not that bad at all.

 

It is and always has been straw/minimumweight. Cruiser has always been pretty weak because the good ones will obviously move up to HW because that's where the money is. But with the # of ex cruisers theat have been succesful at heavy it's clear it isn't as weak as it seems.

LHW/CW is about the avarage weight of a European male, so it isn't that strange.

 

Throw in 2 not so hard hitting LHWs? I'm interested to see how they'd do at cruiserweight but it's hardly exciting.

 

I know what you're saying. Just making a case for it not being the worst division.

 

What a load of crap

 

As somebody else has already pointed out lebedev-jones was freakin awesome. you clearly didnt actually see the fight op. I actually voted for it as fight of the year in the poll on the ring magazine website.

And as was already pointed out Chakkiev vs Wlodarcyk was also a *******. I also enjoyed Mateusz Maternak v Grigory Drozd. Drozd is someone who will be in good fights going forward too.

This is no way the weakest division and it has some good quality operators who match up well against each other. Last few years we have seen some top notch fights in this division, Cunningham v Hernandez 2, Huck v aFOLABI 2, Huck v Arslan, Hernandez vs Troy Ross.

As someone pointed out it is a very "eurocentric" division but that doesnt mean its a bad one. Dont just criticise a division cos you havent gone out of your way to watch any of the fights

 

Thats' the worst division and as soon as Chambers moves down, he's gonnna take over...oh wait. :huh

 

Huck/Arslan 2
Nathan Clevely/Makabu will be fun...
Lebedev/Jones 2

Juan Carlos Gomez moved back down, Tony Bellew might move up... You still have YPH, Wlod, Mchunu, Afolabi, Chambers, Chakhkiev, Garrett Wilson.... Can anybody find Troy Ross??

 

Chambers gets schooled by a unheralded prospect and its back to "the division sucks" talk. As always CW is underappreciated mostly by people who don't even follow the divison. In 2013 the division provided us with 5 or 6 excellent fights and a potential FOTY.

Real solid group of belt holders. None of them are weak even if there isn't a genuine elite talent and the same can't be said for most divisions.

Huck
Wlod
Lebedev
YPH
Jones

Contenders are solid to very good

Drozd
Ross
Afolabi
Arslan
Chakhkiev
Alekseev
Masternak

Excellent crop of prospects

Usyk
Kudryashov
Makabu
Kucher
Glowacki
Kalenga
Mchunu
Dorticos
Akberbayev