I promise you its not a weak HWT era

Nobody was saying that when Rahman had the WBC not very long ago, or when Shannon Briggs had the WBO.

The very fact that both those 90's guys were belt holders, and fighting guys like Maskaev, just PROVED that the division was in a terrible state.

Honestly, if both the Klitchkos retired forever today, there would be a whole host of guys in their late 30's and early 40's coming out of retirement with a real chance of being champion.

 

In the past they same has been said about heavyweight division. If USTV keeps boycotting important heavyweight fights the division will go down in America, but the world is getting wake-up call.

 

worst era EVER

 

Worst era for Americans.

 

thank you CAPTAIN OBVIOUS


but the whole division is horrible with the exception of a few

you brag about Dimentrenko, he has fought absolutely NO ONE


chagev, ibragimov, valeuv, povetkin, mascaev, lycovich
yeah, they are all world class bad ass's

klitschos are the only thing that is good about this era....

 

The era isn't weak. America has this thing where if we don't dominate something we create a scenario in which it becomes irrelevant, almost as if it is a nonentity. Just look at soccer. The thing is that America used to have a monopoly on the heavyweight division. Now that this is no longer the case the heavyweight division is branded as being "weak" or "boring" to name a few. It's interesting when you go on to consider that the old American domination was pretty much guaranteed since there were no fighters from the former Soviet Bloc to contend with them.

 

You can pin the perception of the heavyweights on American "bias" all day long, but it's only in the last 18 to 24 months or so that any even remotely interesting contenders have begun to emerge in the division. Post Lewis, it was an absolute wasteland.

 

They said the same about Lewis and Louis!

 

EVERY era since the 1970s has been called "weak," INCLUDING the 1990s while it was going on.:yep

 

:good

 

Yes, very true.

 

I'm not American, and I only have to use my own eyes to see the difference.

Remove the Klitchkos from the current era.
Remove Lewis, Tyson Holy and Bowe from the 90's.

Do you really think that guys like Ruddock, Mercer, Tua, Bruno, McCall, Golota, Moorer - not to mention the "cocaine era" guys like Pinklon Thomas, Dokes, Tucker etc wouldn't beat their equivalents in the rankings today???

 

I remember so many of those fighters coming into fight out of shape.

 

It is a strong era. Before only a limited number of countries had pro boxing. Now it is worldwide. It is really global.