How bad is todays heavyweight division?

Its decent.

Wlad has defended against some viable threats like Haye and Povetkin, and will do so against a couple more like Pulev and the winner of Stiverne-Wilder.

And big Joshua is on the horizon.

 

Its thin, but...

Vitali-Sanders
Wlad-Peter I
Povetkin-Takam
Povetkin-Huck

 

A bunch...

Byrd/Golota
Sanders/Vitali
Brewster/Wlad I
Brewster/Meehan
Brewster/Krasniqi
Brewster/Liakhovik
Wlad/Peter I
Toney/Peter I
Chambers/Povetkin
Rahman/Oleg II
Povetkin/Huck
Adamek/Walker
Cunningham/Fury
Cunningham/Adamek II
Cunningham/Mansour
Povetkin/Takam

..etc.


..etc.

 

Good tear ups, dont really mean "great fights"

Meehan-Brewster wont exactly go down in the annals of history.

Or Cunningham-Mansour.

I mean you get good scraps ion friday night fights, but they're hardly "great"

Uusally it requires 2 elite fighters.

It would be like calling Guererro-Kamegai a "great fight"

 

If you define "Great fight" as a meeting between 2 elite fighters (Champions, top 10, very popular fighters) that is also entertaning, that is of your opinion.

We still have had plenty of those.

I believe the phrase you are looking for is actually "historical"

Brewster/Meehan was a title fight. And Cunningham/Mansour was the former Lineal Cruiser Champion and an undefeated fighter looking to break out. It was a very dramatic world class fight, hardly a good scrap.

 

Fight of the year :yep

 

If you want to play that game.

44% now think it is Average to Best Ever.

 

Better than supposed more important fights like Pac/Bradley and Mayweather/Maidana.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed that and its made me a Guerrero fan.

I hope that japanese dude moves on to bigger things too, hes got a bombproof chin (or Guererros featherfisted)

 

Its so bad the Unified HW Champion can barely get on television.

 

its not as bad as people make it...........wlad is just that good..........

 

It's terrible because all of the most talented HWs aren't boxing. They are playing basketball or football. So the talent pool is a joke.

 

It's fine, top contenders just need to continue to fight each other.

Povetkin-Takam was a great start, and even Cunningham-Mansour, though the level was lower, was an entertaining fight with real stakes.

Make the fights and people will see the talents there.

 

Nah...

It isn't just HWs anymore. We are seeing an influx of global talent across the boards.