Lower weight classes get too much attention at the expense of HW and CW divisions

There's way too much talk about divas from lower weight classes like Canelo, GGG, Khan, Pacman, Mayweather etc. and people are way too invested in these fighters.

Historically, HW division was always the most prestigious and rightfully so. It's the way that it should be because those guys are essentially the best boxers. We have plenty of great fights ahead and great prospects. Also, cruiserweight division is totally overlooked and underrated. It's absolutely stacked with top talent and top 10 guys will actually fight each other in the next months. Last year we saw a great fight between Huck and Glowacki which was the best fight of the year for me. No dramas with catchweights and draining each other, just fighting.

It's laughable how those divas from lower weight classes like Mayweather, Pacman and now Canelo are somehow seen as the faces of boxing. I guess it has a lot to do with Klitschko and other Eastern Europeans being so dominant from 175 up and Americans had to find other divisions to hype. What I can't understand is how so many people fall for that.

I can respect good fighters from lower weight classes but people have to accept the bitter reality that this P4P stuff is a play pretend, a make believe. Lower weight classes will always be a sideshow, a playground for smaller people so they can enjoy boxing, while HW division is, always has been and should be by far the most prestigious division of boxing.

A heavyweight is a perfect specimen of a man, of a fighter. Those guys are the best boxers, period. Like Tyson Fury said, the bigger they are the harder they punch, the better men they are.

Cruiserweights also deserve a lot of respect because this is basically a perfect weight for a fighter, they have great power but aren't as slow as the HWs. And they can move up and upset the HWs.

The entire Floyd era was a massive joke. All that hype for manlets draining each other on catchweights while at the same time Klitschko was achieving historic greatness going undefeated in HW division for 10 years, fighting legit contenders in their prime at their backyards and his style even if "boring" wasn't as "boring" as Mayweather's. And yes, Klitschko is a better boxer than Floyd, that can't be argued unless you're delusional and fell for the hype.

Or take for example someone like Marco Huck, an extremely underrated and underappreciated fighter, if he was American he would be hyped beyond imagination.

We have Usyk coming up who's the best talent in boxing right now.

We have Tyson Fury, an extremely entertaining boxer with great skills and yet people don't give him the proper respect.

175 division is also great with the Krusher.

Personally I was never that much interested in lower weight classes and never understood all that hype for Floyd and Pacman. I want to see powerful boxers fight each other not some midgets, that's why I started watching boxing. Floyd and Pacman basically disgraced boxing with their pathetic drama and even more pathetic fight.

It's about time that people start to focus on heavier divisions again.

 

In Europe Klitschko's were by far the biggest stars of boxing and are household names.

No one outside of hardcore boxing fans gave a **** about Floyd here or watched his fights, everyone watched Klitschko.

Also, there were plenty of great HW fights. Huck vs Povetkin wasn't a great fight? And Fury vs Klitschko was still better than Floyd's fights. I don't like Wilder but his fights are always fun to watch too.

I'd rather see "boring" HW fights than good fights bellow 160 because I respect the power and strength of HWs and I realize that they're the most prestigious fighters in boxing.

 

So why did Wilder go to boxing for money?

It's not like you can just decide to go to boxing anyway. A lot of people start boxing so early in their life when they can't possibly know if they even have the physique of a heavyweight. And people who're doing other sports are doing them because they simply liked those sports more, not everyone wants to be a fighter. It was the same before.

Also, there's more money in boxing than in any other sport as Floyd proved. If there was an American boxer in the HW division reigning as long as Wlad did he'd be one of the top 10 paid athletes.

The reason why there aren't any Americans in HW boxing is because Eastern Europeans and also British proved to be better at this weight. Eastern Europeans rule the combat sports at this weight, take a look at wrestling and what Karelin did and even in MMA the GOAT of the sport is a Russian who fought at HW and beat everyone for 10 years.

 

They don't have the power of the heavyweight division. They look like regular guys, even guys like Golovkin. Heavyweights and cruiserweights have the proper fighter's physique. For me, those are real fighters. Let's face it, everyone would like to be a heavyweight.