Is this the weakest the welterweight division has ever been ???

It is kind of blank isnt it .

I would love to see a Vernon Forrest type coming through.

 

Well there's Mayweather (who may well not fight at 147 again), Pacquiao then everyone else.

The lesser guys aren't too bad though- Bradley, Guerrero, Brook, Alexander, Bailey, Malignaggi, Carson Jones, Mike Jones, Berto, Ortiz, Khan is likely moving up, possibly Matthysee too, if Hatton isn't shot to **** he will be a decent addition. Vargas and Dulmore are solid prospects too.

 

It's really bad. Compare it to the late 90s :nut

Whitaker
Oscar
Tito
Quartey
Page
Mosley
Rivera
Carr
Forrest

 

Compared to even what it was 4/5 years ago it is really poor.

2007/2008
Mayweather
Cotto
Margarito
Mosley
Williams

2012

Bradley
Uhh... Brook? Ortiz? Paulie? Bailey?

 

None of these compare to what the division looked like 5 years ago...

 

Jose Benavides will clean up this weightclass soon.

 

It was far worse 1-2 years ago. At least now some of the guys from 140 are moving up and looking okay. In 2011, some people still had Mosley as a top 3 welterweight atsch

Though I did occasionally hear the argument from Duck Dodgers and some of the other awful posters from the past that it simply must be the best division in boxing because Manny and Floyd fight there :nut

 

Yup it stinks. Don't recall it ever being this bad.

 

Changing the subject a little.

Whats everyones best Weight division?

 

It's ok. It just ain't got any big fights, sans the one that ain't ever gonna happen. Ortiz and Tim were supposed to be hot new additions to WW, but they both got their asses kicked. Ortiz had beaten Berto in a good fight, but Berto never been all that.

 

Super bantamweight or middleweight, right now.

 

Who cares about the glory of the divisions' name.

140 is good and 154 is perhaps the best.

In the end, you've still got Mayeather, Pacquiao, Marquez, Bradley plus Zaveck, Brooks, Paulie, Ortiz... it could def be a whole lot worse. Those are 4 top 10 P4P guys in the welterweight division, so I disagree that it's weak right now.

 

I disagree about this. I think it's the most fragmented but I'd be hard-pressed to call any division in which someone like Vanes Martirosyan appears on most people's top 10 lists the best in boxing.