This somewhat underrated & overlooked baby HW division is absolutely stacked & providing exceptional fight's but the champions aren't fighting each other! I would like to see how you would order the current crop of CW's (following list is in no order particular order BTW): Denis Lebedev Grigory Drozd Krzystof Wlodarczyk Rakhim Chakhkiev Ola Afolabi Yoan Hernandez Thabiso Mchunu Dmitry Kudryashov Victor Ramirez Mateusz Masternak Krzysztof Glowacki Oleksandr Usyk Fart Arslan Marco Huck Ilunga Makabu & why (current form, resume, talent, titles etc)..
Drozd Hernandez Usyk Lebedev Huck Wlodarczyk Chakhkiev Glowacki Ramirez Afolabi That would be my top 10
It gets a little shaky after that...I am not entirely convinced by some of those guys, Kudryashov being exhibit A. Great power but borderline terrible everywhere else
I forgot Kalenga... Good, durable fighter.. Made Lebedev work a bit for the win last time out! Very solid B Level CW..
It's a very deep division, but lacking attention. If promoters make more investment and bring good match ups like the one yesterday, the division will get the attention it deserves.
The match ups are happening, heck we've had Ramirez Vs Afolabi already this year and now look set for Ramirez Vs Hernandez, we've had Lebedev Vs Kalenga this year too and Lebedev is likely to be in another good one before the year is out. Heck Wlodarczyk Vs Drozd was less than a year ago. Theres a list somewhere that I posted recently of standout bouts the division has had in the last few years and it's an impressive list.
Man! What a great division CW is. I rank Usyk, Lebedev, and Drozd as my top three. Excited about Kudryashov, and honestly haven't seen enough of Glowacki to have an opinion of him.
If we're going to include Afolabi, then surely we can include the dude that beat him multiple times in Huck? The same goes for Ramirez and Lebedev, albeit they were close fights I know Huck was ktfo last night, but let's keep things in perspective
