Cruiserweight; and underrated and under appreciated division

The cruiserweight division will always be underlooked and underappreciated, always. Doesnt matter if a Joe Louis spawns and dominates cruiserweights the way he dominated the HW division.
If Holyfield stayed at cruiser his entire career, regardless of any accomplishments, he wouldnt be as highly rated as he is now

 

It's mostly because of how the CW division came into existence and the way it's looked at today.

The Cruiser (or Junior Heavyweight) division was designed to bridge the ever increasing gap between LHW and HW.

If you are too big for the LHW division and too small to hang in there with the big boys there was the CW division for ya. But the big money is still in the HW division, so the smaller guys still try on the big pants first, and if they can't they drop down to the what came to be the "close but no sigar" division.
And it also works the other way 'round. If you started out at the Cruisers, and were succesful at one point in time you also want a decent payday and move up. Talent moves away, so you get poor champs.

Some succeeded, most didn't. So most upcoming Cruisers are looked at as 2nd rate Heavyweights and the division looked at as poor and dumpingground for smaller failed heavies or old middleweights with a lot of surplus fat.

The problem is money!
If payment in boxing was linear (the bigger, the more money), it would have been a very popular division (weight of the average European male) and others wouldn't have killed themselves to make lower weights.

 

I'd rather watch a CW fight than a HW fight, big guys who don't tire out after a round.

Too bad they couldnt rename CW HW and make these oversized guys SHW. If the Cruiserweight division got as much attention as the heavy's the sport would be in much better shape.

 

I find it to be a pretty **** division, to be honest.

Nothing outstanding happening.

 

It only seems exciting because all of it's best fighters have moved up to heavyweight leaving a pile of equally matched men to duke it out. I suppose for this reason the Klitschko hating fanatics will love the heavyweight division again in a few years with both brothers retired.

 

It isn't bad but...not too great either. I big fan of USS but I think he's coming to the end of the road, been way to inactive of late (still the best in the division though I think). Huck...fun to watch in a sense, but he really is limited and I thought he lost to Lebedev. Frenkel looks like a deadly puncher and him vs Lebedev should be a decent match. Wlodarczck, not sure what the case is with him at the moment, may never enter a ring again after his OD although there was talk of a Green fight. Kayode could turn out to be interesting, as could a resurgent Afolabi.

 

With the way the HW division is today, then yea it is under-appreciated. Much better fights to be made at CW then HW. And the ones you want to see at HW won't happen because these guys won't fight eachother, only pad their records until cashing out on a payday with the Klitschkos. The lastest Wlad Mormeck fight is a complete joke.

 

And there you have it... Mormeck was one of the real top dogs at Cruiser, loses to Haye in a hard fight, and a couple of years later (after 3 wins) he's the joke opponent of the HW champ. :yep
No one takes the division seriously.

 

**** division totally agree. Wank

 

not really. the opinion of most of this forum is that a lot of CW from the past would have beat the K. bros

 

Cruiserweight should be renamed the heavyweight division. Heavyweight should be renamed super heavyweight. That would help it become more prominent, no doubt