Best weight division?

Welterweight history excites me maybe more than any other division as so many of my favourites fought there.

 

The heavyweight division is historically the most shallow in talent and the most bereft of skill excluding minimum and fly. It is the division whose talent is the rarest in the pool in that many regions do not produce large athletes and it is the division most pilfered by other major sports.

Middle is my favorite but welter and light are the deepest.

 

Bantam, Fly, Feather and Lightweight are my favourites. I feel as though once you get past Welter they become a little too big?
Though I am a fan of countless guys at middle I just think the best skill is displayed by the little guys.

 

I never understood how someone who watches boxing can like Heavyweight most of all despite it having the least "boxing".

 

Heavyweight is actually a viable option in terms of P4P talent doing their best work there. It'd include Bob Fitzsimmons, Sam Langford, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali.

 

Heavyweight has normally generated the most interest and the most money. I know there have been times when other Divisions have pulled in the money, usually because of one individual, but, over the long haul, it's aways been the Heavyweights.

 

In terms of a vast array of great talent over time, welterweight to me. So many ATG's fought at WW at some point in their careers. Both Sugar Rays, Armstrong, Duran, Sweet Pea and Floyd, Pac man and Hearns. Very subjective of course. And not all those fighters were their best at Welter, but it just an example of the great talents that went through that division.

 

the Little Big Men, the Middles.

Skilled, Strong, tough and sizable enough to fight the Real Big Men, but Lean, Athletic and Slick like Flyweights and the smaller fighters.

I think second to HW the Middle have captured the Fans, the Media and the Money, but again like many have said, lightweight has equally pumped out some amount of named Fighters.

but the Greatest Prize in Sport will probably always be HW, now S-HW, because, they are 'supposed to be the Baddest man on the Planet... at one time that was more palpable than the present.

 

they are all good at different times.. How can it be picked.

 

Middleweights, followed by welters, and then the heavies.

 

Hard to say, since it's debatable to what extent the old divisions even still exist. They got split into a million sub-sub-weights, fractured their belts to prevent lineage from being established, and are now all host to rehydrated fighters from 1 or 2 weight classes north of them.

If we say middleweight had the best talent, for example...which "middleweight" are we talking? Traditional middleweight, or the current weight class with 160+ pound rehydrated people? But note that 160 only has a fraction of the traditional talent, since there's also junior middleweight. And you've got 4 belt holders. Because you gotta have 4 belt holders.

 

Have to agree George. Add in Harold Johnson, Jimmy Bivins much of black murders row, Foster, Spinks, Moorer,Maxim etc

 

Middleweight
1. Robinson
2. Hagler
3. Monzon
4. Greb
5. Ketchel

 

I've always thought welter followed by middle and heavyweight.

 

Heavyweight is the flagship division but talentwise Welterweights have been more consistent.