Do you consider the heavyweight division the most talent poor division?

That's just typical of the heavyweight division. However, there seems to be a wave of boxers, mainly Eastern Europeans with extensive amateur experience entering the professional side of the sport that will provide a more than usual amount of technical skills in the division. There's at the least a considerable amount of parity. I don't see Wilder and Joshua as being particularly strong champions. Also, there are some significantly talented cruiserweights who will most likely move up to heavyweight. The heavyweight division has potential to be very intriguing assuming the promoters don't fudge up everything.

 

in the last couple of decades, definitely.

 

If the average man Stands between 5ft 8 and 6ft 2. Then obviously most of the talent will be at those weights.

light welter to super middle is always stacked full of talent.

 

The heavyweight division is very talent poor, but I think the cruiserweight division deserves part of the blame, since its takes good talent that could either be at 175 or heavyweight. If Gassiev, Usyk, Dorticos, Glowacki, and Lebdev were forced to fight in the heavyweight division along with the guys there the heavyweight division would easily be one of the top divisions again.

All the talented smaller heavyweights tend to stay at cruiserweight, which results in the heavyweight division having mostly out of shape giant heavyweights and untalented short heavyweights, who are often fat. I have a hard time believing most of the 6'4"+ heavyweights would be coming in regularly at 250+ if they had to contend with guys around 200-215 that were in shape and skilled.

 

Definitely not talent rich.

 

It's pretty poor in terms of depth. Hence someone as low on talent as Wilder manages to be a "champion" for a while.

But there's some very good fighters coming up as well as some good CWs moving up.

In 2-3 years it will be stacked with talent.

 

SMW is poor too.

 

It lacks depth. Even if you look back 7-12 years the HW scene had a lot of half decent live opponents - the likes of Grant, Botha, Tua, Sanders, Brewster, Chagaev, Ibragimov, Austin, Rahman, Valuev, Liakohvich, Briggs, Golata, Meehan etc..sure none were world beaters, but they were top 20 and solid opponents. Nowadays there is zero depth. A few decent guys and the rest are awful. You don't need lots of talent for the HW division to be decent, just a good selection of C+ to B+ fighters who are willing to mix it.

 

I would once again like to cite a quote from a great philosopher, Mr. Deontay Wilder:

"In the heavyweight division you don't need skills."

 

The cruiserweights take away most of the athletic and skilled big men who could otherwise fight at heavy. It's weird considering there's so little money to be had at CW compared to HW, but I guess some people just relish the challenge.

It also doesn't help that it's an open weight division which means some almighty fatasses can compete with ludicrous weight advantages while pumped up on steroids.

 

When some of these cruisers start to add extra weight and move up, the division will become very tasty, right now, theres about 10-12 you could mix and match and get some decents bouts with

 

The minute Whyte was made WBC number 1 challenger I think I died a little inside.

 

Now try to imagine a 240+ SHW class, which is being seriously discussed.

 

The heavyweight division's problem isn't lack of talent.

But sadly, many are not in shape (Miller, Stiverne, Wach, etc).

And the best HW matchups are too rarely made. For example, I'd like to see Parker-Joshua, Wilder-Joshua, Parker-Browne, Miller-Wilder, and Whyte-Wilder. But instead we often see the titleholders against journeymen or faded old fat guys like Stiverne.