I think in today's boxing, the disparity in size between one HW and another is so huge. It wasn't as drastic as the past. Do you think there should be two HW divisions? Maybe from 200-220 and another for 221+ or 220-215 and 215+? You can call one "Heavyweight Division" and the other one " Super Heavyweight Division".
no, because a skilled 220 pounder easily can take out some lazy, fat 270s guy. having 330 pounds isn't necessarily a bonus - take valuev for example.
I think it's fine how it is, as mentioned previously; too many divisions. Besides when you get to a certain weight/size punching power seems to plateau, 30 lbs difference in a heavyweight doesn't necessarily equate to a massive disparity, where as in the lighter weights you may see a significant difference between 7 lbs or so.
225-James Toney s/b Heavyweight 200-225 s/b Light Heavyweight 180-200 s/b Cruiserweight 168-180 s/b Light Cruiserweight
What would be the point? It's already been shown being big doesn't do **** if you aren't good. It will just dilute the quality of the divisions even further
Chris Byrd was only 210 when he beat 244 lb. Vitali Klitschko. He also drew with 237 lb. Andrew Golota and defeated 270 lb. Jameel McCline. 245 lb Wlad lost to 2 guys in the mid 220s, and 240 lb. Lennox fought very close with a 217 lb. Holyfield in the rematch. Size helps, but it isn't everything. A 20 lb. difference in the HWs is not like Kelly Pavlik vs. Ricky Hatton.
The Cruiser division was put in place do to the size difference between lhw and hw. I doubt if a super heavy division would do anything positive for boxing.
So they should have 3 divisions then. Small < 160lbs Med 161lbs - 190lbs Large > 191lbs Pac would have to compete with Pavlik, Taylor, Wright etc etc There would be no MAB or EM....they would have never been champs. Don't you see. The way boxing works today is one loss can set you back years and pretty much drop you. Fans claim exposure if a fighter has a bad night, let alone gets knocked out. Now you can be the most gifted fighter on the planet, but it's gonna be damn hard to display it if you are naturally 210lbs and have to face a 6'7" 245lb Wlad :deal Another division would even it out, and is long over-due.