Is a Super-Heavyweight Division needed?

I agree 100%! Size isn't the problem with heavyweights these days it's their lack of skill, lack of commitment, and the fact that the top guys are just that much better. Super Heavyweight division would be lame.

 

No there is too much history in the heavyweight devision.
We need to acatapt the fact that the heavyweights are bigger than they once were.

 

i hate that there are so many divisions. a guy who fights at 115 is not too small to fight at 118. i'm around 130 and i can lose two or three pounds after a good ****.

 

+1,000,000,000,000,000:yep

 

Another division would just be plain stupid. If you are good enough you should be able to beat anyone who gets in your way, its a simple as that. Height provides problems, but if you are good enough you can beat a guy that is 5 inches taller and 40 pounds heavier.

A lack of talent is the problem.

 

Boxing doesn't need another division, maybe a shuffle of the existing?

CW 215
LHW 200
SMW 175
MW 165

and leave the rest?

 

Well said.

A great little man cannot beat a geat big man.

That said, I don't see the need for a super heavyweight division, when there are but a four or five in the top twenty that are what you'd call overly big.

 

But what if the guy who outweighs you and is taller than you, also has skillls as good, or better, than most?

 

Then you need to step up your game and develop a strategy. It's not impossible for someone like Adamek to beat someone like W. Klitschko - just very, very difficult. As you said in your previous post to this one, though - dealing with the combined size and skill of a W. Klitschko is a rare problem indeed.

 

I say force a body fat% rule for the HW's. Anyone over 17% is DQ'd at the weigh in.

 

What would a super heavyweight div do any way.

I dont see a problem with size matchups in the division.

We just need better heavyweights in general.

It seems like after Lennox got out,it was all down hill for the division.Lewis was probably the last quality heavy with some skills.

Just having two brothers that vow they will never fight each other,holding titles,and a heavy with some potential but doesn't realy seem to want to test himself.....plain SUX!!!When you have Shannon briggs as the most exciting thing to happen to the division when he announced his comeback...plain SUX!!!

 

Lets see who would populate this Super Heavyweight Division, possibly the Klitschkos, Chris Arreola, Butterbean and the guy Deontay Wilder beat up last. Great division there. Tomasz Adamek and David Haye prove that smaller guys can be successful at Heavyweight so there isn't a need for a new division.

 

lol at the people saying a bigger HW is better.... that's only true if they're legitimately skilled and powerful and good at actually using that size, like Lewis, Holmes and Foreman...

smaller fighters like patterson, langford, jones jr, dempsey, spinks, fitzsimmons, frazier, marciano have had incredible success at HW and some of them fought at MW....

 

i would like 230 would be good.