Seems many members feel American heavyweights can only gain credibility by beating European HW and vice versa with middle weights. I feel American HW are just a good with a recent showings against Europeans and the European MW are world class boxers where ever they fight.
are you saying that european middle's can only gain credit by beating american middle's? if so, what american middle's? there aren't any apart from quillin. the euro middle's have proven themselves by beating, or by giving the best a run for their money. the american heavy's have done absolutely nothing. they keep fighting bums. if and when they step up, they'll have their **** pushed in. if the yanks tell you any different just ignore them. they talk complete **** anyway.
Well in particular I mean when people say Proksa is a Euro bum to discredit Golovkin's win. The same people would give more credit to Golovkin if he had beaten Quilin or Wright as I feel Proksa is as good as them at this stage. Also Chavez Jr is really overrated as evident by the first 11 rounds with Martinez. With the American HW, the recent performance by Jennings/Liakhovich and Chambers/Adamek shows the Americans HW are up there and yet the younger Americans are viewed as not as good as European HWs.
I don't think so. I'm not out to put guys down for no good reason but the division is clearly weak and the Americans are weak. Not many of the top guys are fighting enough to put together a resume or improve to challenge K2. Guys are waiting around to win the K2 lottery instead of taking legit fights.
I agree with the OP. There are at least half a dozen American HWs that are better than Wach and Charr and weren't even considered for a shot at the Klitschkos. Even more bizarrely, Americans themselves don't throw their weight behind their best prospects, they have some very skilled prospects like Jennings, Tor Hamer and Malik Scott and instead decide to throw their weight behind relatively unskilled power punchers like Mitchell, Arreola and, most laughably of all, Deontay Wilder.
