Is it fair to say that Cruiserweight has largely been seen as a nothing division?

Once Stephen Simmons cleans up domestically he'll bring big ERuro and hopefully world title fights to Edinburgh

 

Straw-weight?


Anyways, I'd like to see CW done away with and get all the CW mixing it up with all the HW's.

 

it is a good division but it is young it will take 1-2 decades more to establish itself

 

I want to say Straw :good Either way, both minimumweight and super middle came after Cruiser.

And larsker or whatever your name is, your post means nothing.

 

Was SMW really after CW? :think

 

Wasn't super middle basically invented for Leonard vs Hearns II to be a title fight?

 

The division has improved greatly since the weight limit was increased from 190 to 200. I think there is a lot of talent in the division, but it will always be unglamorous because it is sandwiched between heavy and light heavy.

 

I'm not particularly a fan to be honest. But in a day and age where people are genuinely getting larger (both in height and in weight), we will see the division flurish in the future.


Its a sad state of affairs, but i'd rather watch the CW division rather than the HW division. Much more competitve, and challengers actually come in in shape (for the most part)

 

Historically, guys like Marciano, Dempsey, Louis, Langford, Johnson and Patterson would have been Cruisers by todays standards. Add these guys into the mix and we dont have a weak division at all

 

A stepping stone division for young heavyweights to make a name for themselves. That's what it is and always will be.

 

I'm a fan of the division, because of the relative lack of £ the best have to fight each other. It regularly produces better fights than HW.

Guys like Danny Price, Matty Askin, Tony Conquest & Stephen Simmons make the next couple of years interesting domestically.

There are plently of good prospects as well, guys like Chakkiev & Masternek will be challenging for world titles soon.

 

The Lalonde fight was first SMW title fight IIRC...With horrific weight sanctions!

 

I've just had a look.

Hearns vs Kinchen was the first ever WBO title fight, three days before Leonard vs Lalonde.

I'd guess the ''race'' was for someone to be the first five weight world champion, with Hearns having won everything up to 175, Leonard up to 160.

Neither really have a genuine claim tbh, Hearns' title came from a micky mouse organisation and Leonard tried winning two in one night!

So ''back in the day'', fighters were inventing weight divisions and even sanctioning bodies for their own gratification.

Hagler was the first man to fight for an IBF title too.....

 

Ask Bellew why he doesn't compete at Cruiserweight?? Where he'd easily clean up at domestic level?

Cos it's a nothing division....

 

Good work, but I think it was Holmes who really pushed for the IBF, dropping his other belts and stuff. Didn't realise Hagler was the first.