How bad is todays heavyweight division?

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  1. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    On a scale of one to ten how do you rate todays heavyweight division.

    Poll to be added.
     
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  2. JASPER

    JASPER Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    2 . . . thats the number of good fighters it has in it right now. 3 if haye gets his ass back in the ring
     
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  3. Mordechai

    Mordechai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    you have two atg.
    two extremly talented fighters (olympic champion and unbeaten beltholder and a former cruiserweight champ and heavyweight beltholder)
    two upcoming very good contenders (fury and pulev)
    and a couple solid journeyman (thomspon, chagaev, dimitrenko)
    nice prospects (jennings, wilder, mago, price)
     
    Mordechai, Apr 11, 2013
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  4. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Its got to be the worst era ever.
     
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  5. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Vits is not an ATG. It remans to be see how, who and how often Haye will fight. Fury has done little but run his mouth. Dimitrenko has always been crap and Chadeav fights nothing but tomato cans now. We'll see how the prospects fare in the future and if they can raise this division up from the ashes.
     
    JAB5239, Apr 11, 2013
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  6. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lets go ESB....more votes and more discussion!! Tell what you think of this wet fart of an era.
     
    JAB5239, Apr 11, 2013
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  7. Big Left

    Big Left Boxing Addict Full Member

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    awful, 2 decent fighters are dominating and the public are grasping at straws for the contenders - the likes of Arreola, K.Johnson, Chambers, Pulev, Charr, Chisora, Helenius, Fury, Solis, Price, Thompson are very poor fighters.

    Povetkin is above average. and Haye & Adamek get a pass cause they are not really HWs - they never could have stepped up if the division was not so weak.
     
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  8. KingBenny

    KingBenny The maverick Judge Full Member

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    Put it like this, the tomato cans from the 80's atleast showed up in supreme shape and " tried" to win unlike today's heavyweights.
     
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  9. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Fury, Povektin, Haye, Chisora, , Pulev are good to watch, the rest are all useless.
    No ATG will emerge from the HW division for a long time.
     
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  10. DrMo

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    I voted for option #3 Its bad but there have been worse

    The post-Lewis era has been dreadful for a plethora of reasons. The top 2 guys (understandably) wont fight each other, the contenders wont fight each other & the overall standards of skill & ability is truly awful.
     
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  11. FloydPatterson

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  12. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Seems obvious most on here feel this era is very bad for heavyweight boxing.
     
    JAB5239, Apr 11, 2013
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  13. TheNeonSalmon

    TheNeonSalmon Active Member Full Member

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    It's a pretty weak division but it's coming back. It's the Klitschko era and then lots of garbage. TKlitschko's have been good not great or exceptional but good. They earned respect. I dont put them in ATG status but they are good.
     
    TheNeonSalmon, Apr 11, 2013
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  14. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It will never come back if top 10 guys keep avoiding each other and only fighting 2 or 3 times a year.
     
    JAB5239, Apr 11, 2013
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  15. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why don't the guys who voted this the best era ever explain themselves?
     
    JAB5239, Apr 11, 2013
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