1985 Heavyweights vs. 2010 Heavyweights

I agree with you guys completely.
I think the fact that they all seemed to be willing to fight each other in the 80s is an element that is central to keeping the HW division alive.

I did another quick experiment and compiled a list of the '85 fighters, and which other fighter on the Ring ranking list they fought (I probably missed a few, but it's just a though experiment):

Spinks: Holmes x2
Thomas: Berbick, Weaver, Witherspoon, Coetzee
Holmes: Spinks x2, Williams, Witherspoon, Berbick, Weaver
Witherspoon: Tubbs, Thomas, Page, Holmes, Williams
Tubbs: Witherspoon, Page
Page: Tubbs, Coetzee, Witherspoon, Berbick
Coetzee: Page, Dokes, Thomas, Weaver
Berbick: Williams, Thomas, Page, Holmes
Williams: Witherspoon, Berbick, Weaver, Holmes
Weaver: Holmes, Coetzee, Thomas, Dokes x2, Thomas, Williams
Dokes: Coetzee, Weaver x2

Next, I just replaced the fighters in this list with the matching ranks from the 2010 list.
With the same willingness to fight, these are the fights we'd get to see happen before their careers ended:

Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye x2
Vitali Klitschko vs. Denis Boytsov
Vitali Klitschko vs. Alexander Dimitrenko
Vitali Klitschko vs. Alexander Povetkin
Vitali Klitschko vs. Eddie Chambers
David Haye vs. Nikolai Valuev
David Haye vs. Alexander Povetkin
David Haye vs. Denis Boytsov
David Haye vs. Alexander Dimitrenko
Alexander Povetkin vs. Tomasz Adamek
Alexander Povetkin vs. Ruslan Chagaev
Alexander Povetkin vs. Nikolai Valuev
Tomasz Adamek vs. Ruslan Chagaev
Ruslan Chagaev vs. Eddie Chambers
Ruslan Chagaev vs. Denis Boytsov
Eddie Chambers vs. Chris Arreola
Eddie Chambers vs. Alexander Dimitrenko
Denis Boytsov vs. Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Valuev vs. Alexander Dimitrenko
Alexander Dimitrenko vs. Chris Arreola x2

Now - if today's HW division were as active as the '85 one; if we knew from the fighters' willingness to face each other that we would eventually get to see these fights - would we still look at today's HW division as stale and boring?
I'm not so sure...