Has the heavyweight crisis ended?

George Foreman, we need youuuu

 

If more heavyweights would be willing to make all the sacrifices necessary to be dominant in a ring, we'd have a great division..

 

The other guys really got to do something to make a name for themselves.

Back when Lennox was champ, HBO still had other heavyweight fights. These days the only televised heavyweight fights are a Klit versus someone else. So then people who dont realize that the Klits ARE fighting the best out there just trash them and they get no credibility.


The networks got to do something to build up these other heavyweights to gather enough interest in them before matching them up with the Klits so that it has more credibility. David Haye is ****ing annoying but atleast he is creating a reputation and hype for an eventual Klit fight.

 

Yeah, people were all over Lennox's ass while he was the champ and 5 years later he becomes a saint and their favorite heavy ever. Theyre too ****ing stupid to realize Steward is training Wlad in the same style and Wlad is now more like Lennox than ever before and Lennox had complaints for being "boring", not aggressive enough and holding too much. But they completely forget all that because the grass is always greener on the other side, or in this case in the past.

 

Would you agree that Lewis was more dominant than Wlad though?

He certainly wouldn't have allowed himself to be taken the distance by someone like Ibragimov.....

 

Unfortunally Heavyweight Boxing is hanging to life by a thread with no hope in sight.

This is easly the worst era for Heavyweight boxing ever.

 

Am i missing something here??
I dont remember either Klitschko fighting Chagaev.

 

The US HW crysis hasn't ended yet, although there are more young contenders out there now. Arreola, Chambers, Johnson, they all have some good years, and who knows, Wilder might improve a lot, he has time. There never was a HW crysis outside of the US, where the Klitschkos are and always were incredibly popular, score stunning ratings and huge ticket sales, and they are always in great shape and showcase their interesting personality to the media and fans.

Crysis is always an interpretation from a certain viewpoint. If there's a crysis somewhere, there's profit and developement somewhere else, and that happens to be in Eastern and Middle Europe for the HWs.

 

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Wlad beat him back in June, pretty much just jabbed him to death like C.F. said.

 

Not until an American becomes HW champ.
Thats basically all there is too it. When there is a foreign champ of course the division is dead. Unfortunately thats the way it is. And i can guarantee you no American will win that title as long as the Klitschkos are around.
I can honetly say too that both of these guys would be a nightmare for any HW of any era.

 

I'm talking about high level fights - not as a novice pro against guys with plenty of experience.

Mercer's chin at his peak was insane, the two versions faced by Lewis and Klitschko were very different.

Mavrovic was one tough *******, unfortunately he retired after the Lewis fight.... but I'd wager in today's division he would be a pretty strong belt holder, beating all bar the K-bros.

 

We have emerging talent like Haye and Chambers that are bringing back exciting fights, but it will still be a bit before we see what these two are made of.

The K Bros are dominant, yet refuse to unify, which is the major difference between them and their previous cohorts; they're content to share. Coupled with this, like it or not, they both have BORING styles to watch; Klit nuthuggers will rant and rave about their success (undeniable on paper, but boring in the flesh) and point to their KO records, which again, are just a number. I'd take exciting wars going the distance, over plodding snoozefests involving a giant robot jabbing and pawing a tomato can or undersized veterain over 9 or 10 rounds, to be quite frank.

Then on the other hand, we're lumped with either prospects yet to come to fruition, more seasoned fighters who are flat out B grade material only active due to the terrible state of the division, and people floating around from yesteryear for various reasons.

Look at the talent pool in the top 25 from say 1991 to 1999. Then compare to who we have even in the top 5 today or in the past couple of years. Says it all.

 

LOL, so the division was dead when Lewis was king? Americans don't need an American champion to tune in to heavyweight boxing, but we do need an exciting champion.

 

how many lifetime's must one procure if he is to reach the 25,000 post mark?

sunlight is a marvel,really!

 

True since he refused to fight southpaws...

Lennox is a great one though, not putting him down!