Carnera actually gets quite overrated by some these days, but I'd still pick him to beat some of today's stiffs
We've all been eagerly waiting for the Nichols-Wilder rematch. That legit knockdown by Nichols in the first fight wasn't counted by the dodgy referee, and there was a quick stoppage. If Wilder wins the rematch the WBC (We Be Crooks) or the despicable WBA will make Wilder mandatory.
Why are you bashing Deontay Wilder? He's on medical suspension for six months after fighting the best heavyweight in the world for the third time in his last five fights. Bash the heavyweights who could be fighting but aren't. Not the guy who fought the best fighter he could possibly face in the division three times and is on medical leave.
How was Hrgovic rated in the top 10 on boxrec a year ago? Their ratings are based on points. He wasn't fighting better fighters a year ago when he was fighting Rydell Booker.
Boxrec ratings means nothing, absolutely nothing for boxing orgs and fans. Only power boxrec does have is cos this is worldwide widely used for matchmaking in pro boxing. It is site with dude and lady and co, heavily pro US/UK biased posters. Am fights records? I hope you will not care is your opponent 145-5 or 7-2 in am KB or EVEN pro KB. Anyay bum, despite world championship bronze medalist and continental champ " bum ". So you might get opponent who had won in Russia, Turkey with their judges in " doesn't matters ams " with THEIR ref and juges, imagine how cool this will be? Not alone to talk about am boxing records: you might ask Holy and Foreman and compare with this boxrec records. I don't think they are guilty cos they looks that are operating with all am boxing, am MT/KB, pro MT/KB records only if these had been submitted by someone. LOL.
I spend ZERO time looking at boxrec ratings. The OP started this thread. I looked at the boxrec ratings. I saw many of the top 28 were active recently and posted that. THAT'S IT. I have no interest in arguing about who should or shouldn't be rated or how they rate. Don't ask me questions like you think I'm defending any of their ratings. I was commenting on the post where the OP said none of the top 28 has a fight scheduled. That's because many just fought. This thread quickly turned into nonsense. So I'm not wasting any more time on it.
[QUOTE="Dubblechin, post: 21497427, member: 107480"]I spend ZERO time looking at boxrec ratings. The OP started this thread. I looked at the boxrec ratings. I saw many of the top 28 were active recently and posted that. THAT'S IT. I have no interest in arguing about who should or shouldn't be rated or how they rate. Don't ask me questions like you think I'm defending any of their ratings. I was commenting on the post where the OP said none of the top 28 has a fight scheduled. That's because many just fought. This thread quickly turned into nonsense. So I'm not wasting any more time on it.[/QUOTE]
I never had any bare thing in my mind against boxrec. Only simple stuff is that boxrec for example does have listed only these my am fights who might had made me enough good or " good " to be allowed to compete in continent level or world level championship. Yeah, I had lost these on points and I today do not feel scared cos this. I'm happy.
I think the OP's main point, that I totally agree with, is that the HWs are far too inactive and that is only partially down to covid. It's mainly down to politics, bad promoters and greed. There's loads of good fight out there to be made. Unfortunately very few are.
Still not a single top 25 heavyweight is scheduled to fight. Boxers sometimes lose focus when they have no fight to train for, and their conditioning declines. The promoters and managers should do their job and get some fights made for 2022.
This content is protected made a good point about the inactivity, but that doesn't mean the modern HW era is weak. Once you get pre 2000s and more so pre 1990s, most HW champs and top contenders of bygone days would be CWs or small HWs today. Schmeling is a CW today, as is Marciano, Patterson, etc. Young Joe Louis easily makes 200# limit. How would Louis - who was a bit chinny - fare today. Badly. An era could be active and competitive but it doesn't mean the fighters are greater than the current era. A bunch of typical guys could fight often and have close, competitive fights. But they're just nobodies. Some fans confuse competitive with better, higher quality boxers. Comparing Carnera to big modern HWs is just weak. In Primo's era he was a giant and that helped him. In this era he's not even that big and the skill set is better. Fat guy with fast hands Ruiz and most top, modern HWs stop Carnera, some rather easily.
