Would a super heavyweight division somehow "demote" past HW champions

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Valuev was a Heavyweight as a pro, as there has yet to be a Super Heavyweight division.


    And I do not think it will happen. What might happen is a new division is created for 200 to 220lb men. But that would be a (new) Junior Heavyweight division. Heavyweight would still be an open division.
     
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  2. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    No, it'd just be silly.

    Heavyweight is the open weight class, other divisions have been put beneath it, to start having a weight limit for heavyweight would just make a mess of the lineage.

    Suddenly Primo Carnera is in the 230Ib lineage
     
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  3. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Who decides such things? If they wanted to, could the WBA create a SuperHW division and title?
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Yes.
     
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  5. TBooze

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    Not a case of who, but what. If the money is right any of the alphabet organisations or magazines would create a new division.
     
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  6. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Buster Mathis won somebody's Super Heavyweight title in 1972, stopping Humphrey McBride. Mathis lost to Ron Lyle 24 days later and never fought again.
     
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