How would you rate this HW era?

absolutely shyte

 

The best contenders are what - Povetkin, Haye, Pulev? The best up and comers are guys like Fury, Wilder, Jennings, Mitchell.

It's a really poor period for heavyweight boxing. When the Klitschko's leave it may become more exciting, but that is guarantee of quality.

 

Well, everything can be both discredited and overrated, it's about which side are you willing to pick, or you can just stick somewhere in the middle.

Assuming we are excluding the Klitschkos from the discussion, I personally rate guys like Pulev and Povetkin pretty high, pretty much the same could be said about David Haye.

Tyson Fury can be viewed from either good or bad perspective, pretty much like any other fighter. He may be refereed as a clumsy creature who hit himself in the face, but also we can notice that he is pretty tall and big guy, who uses that advantage to tire the opponents before knocking them out. He's undefeated so far, we are yet to see what he's capable of.

Then we got Odlanier Solis, an extremely talented guy who seem not to have any will to make progress with his career. He's fat, out of shape and seems not to care about anything. If he would start going the right path, he has the potential to be the world champion.

There are also Chagaev and Adamek, both past their primes and seem to be over the hill, but still able to eventually make some noise in the division. Both are the great fighters, Chagaev is slowly heading to retirement and Adamek, former 2 divisions champion, is a true warrior and one of the guys who marked this era in my opinion.

Then there is Tony Thompson, big southpaw who recently demonstrated that he still has much left by exposing David Price.
There is also a bunch of pretty okay guys like Stiverne, Helenius, iron-chinned Wach, maybe Charr, Chisora etc.

And finally there is a bunch of upcoming prospects like Boytsov, Wilder, Jennings, Mago etc.

Overall I wouldn't rate the division neither the strongest or the weakest, as it's very hard to compare the different eras. I'd just say fine.

 

It's a weaker era than the last no doubt, you could not call it a strong era, it lacks depth outside of the Klitschko's.

The current 2nd tier heavies Haye, Povetkin and Pulev are decent enough contenders but hardly exceptional. They are the current top contenders of this era but I couldn't see them being too highly placed during the last era. With champions like Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield, Tyson and then top contenders like Moorer, Mercer, Golota, Ibeabuchi, Tua and Byrd I'd doubt they would ever pick up a major title.

The 2nd Tier heavies would be competitive in other weak era's but in a strong era like the 90's or 70's they be lost among the pack.

 

The best version of Sam Peter would beat all of the current contenders, perhaps with the exception of Haye.

All in all its probably no weaker than the early part of the Klitschko reign post-Lewis/Tyson/Holyfield, but that really doesn't say much.

 

Doesn't help that many of the contenders never seem to fight each other, if they were giving us exciting fights I wouldn't be too concerned about the quality too much.

Povetkin, Haye, Pulev, and the likes of fat ass Arreola, if these guys were all fighting each other in the process of the boring ass Klits fighting the winners, we'd probably would of had some classic brawls to look back on.

Instead we get Haye vs Valuev and Wlad, and Arreola vs Vitali... enough to put a fvcking hippopotamus to sleep.

There's always been fights there to be made, but the heavyweight division is full of fighters and teams just looking to make a buck with not much thought for the fans.

Haye-Fury is only happening because Haye and Booth know only too well that's a big money fight in the UK and it's a very winnable fight, hasn't got too much to do with the actual boxing side of things and finding out who's the best or putting on real competitive fights between the top contenders.

 

This era is not a good one but no worse than the one in which Holmes and Louis fought. But both of those greats fought everyone. Marciano and Dempsey fought in slightly better eras. Jack Johnson fought in a good era but avoided the best. Jeffries fought in one of the best eras. Ali fought in the best era as did Frazier, Foreman et al. Lewis fought in e a really good era but beat the best when they were old or psychologically damaged. It was not his fault that Bowe and Tyson avoided him. Patterson fought in a very weak era. So all in all this era is not as bad as people would have you believe.

 

The worst it's ever been. The last great HW was Lewis and the K Bro's have presided over the worst division in boxing history. There isn't a single HW with a diverse set of skills, that should tell you something. The K Bro's are skilled, but they're ordinary aside from their size and athleticism and there hasn't been anyone even halfway good enough to challenge them.

Ludicrous to say otherwise, the eye test doesn't lie. Holmes had a weak era, Tyson had a semi-weak era, but even guys like Tony Tucker make this modern crop look like amateurs in terms of skill. It's dreadful.

It's never been this absent of skills, never been this overweight, never been dominated by a champion as weak as W Klitschko - who would be minced meat in a strong era with elite competition to face him.

 

Very bad for American audiences.

 

It's far better than the 80s where a fighter equivalent to Chad Dawson was HWCotW.

And another, was a former sparring partner with a jab and mediocre power who was beat by the Dawsonlike titlist and nearly beaten by a 15-0 version of a toughguy like Peter.


I'd say it's not quite as good as the 90s although fighter for fighter it's better. But with a Tyson Lewis, Holyfield, Bowe, Foreman, Moorer, Morrison rivalry, it just can't quite compete in terms of excitement.

You know....passing the belt around like a hot potato between B level titlists.

 

Nothing to write home about

 

Yeah...

Michael Spinks is like Chad Dawson... atsch

And somehow old VitKlit and W. Klit with a supporting cast of David Haye, Adamek, Pulev and Fury is nearly on point with Lewis, Holyfield, Tyson, Foreman, Bowe and a very skilled supporting cast.

Clueless.

 

There is not much depth in the division, but the top guys seem as good as the best of any other era...

 

much better than the idiots who detract it claim. 7-7.5 easily. the problem is politics. poor promotion and ducking. the HW scene/division is very much alive in Europe, not so much in America.