Post your current top ten heavyweights

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  1. freedom2013

    freedom2013 Boxing Junkie banned

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    Wilder is becoming well-known. He has a top promoter in Golden Boy (talented HWs like Perez and Dinu who have no promoter or a poor promoter decline due to inactivity and end up going nowhere). And Wilder is gifted with tremendous one-punch KO power.

    I do realize he's unproven, but he's now so RELEVANT in the heavyweight division, I thought by now he belongs near the bottom of the top ten list.
     
    freedom2013, Aug 28, 2013
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  2. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Promoters are not out there for charitable work, they look for the best boxers & sign them up. Thats why GBP signed Wilder, not Pulev or Dinu
     
    eltirado, Aug 28, 2013
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  3. Alcaldemb

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    Because it isn't as if there aren't other top tier promoters out there in other countries. The Wildboys are coming I guess.
     
    Alcaldemb, Aug 28, 2013
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  4. eltirado

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    The idea is simple, the biggest promoters with the most resources, will pick the most talented fighters they can pick. Its not an emotional decision :yep , Wilder is just the best contender the Heavyweight division has ever had in the 21st century thats why they signed him up.
     
    eltirado, Aug 28, 2013
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  5. Alcaldemb

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    Because companies like Sauerland and Top Rank are such small shop promotions. You really know nothing of this sport, do you?
     
    Alcaldemb, Aug 28, 2013
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  6. eltirado

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    Top Rank is focused on other projects, mainly China. Sauerland is a force in Europe, they still didn't expand globally...I don't mind them signing up Mexicans & Ricans, maybe they should start doing that...If they have the resources to expand

    Top Rank & GBP are good examples of promotional companies with a true global reach.
     
    eltirado, Aug 28, 2013
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  7. Reggie Kray

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    Anyone who has Arreola, Mitchell, Wilder, or Jennings in the top 10
    is a biased yank, there is no way they deserve to be in the top 10
     
    Reggie Kray, Aug 28, 2013
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  8. Peril

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    1. Wladimir Klitschko
    2. Vitali Klitschko
    3. Alexander Povetkin
    4. Kubrat Pulev
    5. David Haye
    6. Bermaine Stiverne
    7. Tyson Fury
    8. Tony Thompson
    9. Ruslan Chagaev
    10. Winner of Boytsov/Chisora

    Solis is very close to the top 10 but his inability to get in shape is insulting to me as a boxing fan. It's your only ****ing job, how hard can it be to stay in shape?
     
    Peril, Aug 28, 2013
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  9. ludwig

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    K2
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    Povetkin
    Pulev (close call, but Pulev's palmares are still nowhere near Povetkin's)
    Furry
    Adamek
    Gsora
    Stiverne
    Thompson
    Helenius

    can't rate Haye given that he hasn't fought in over a year.
     
    ludwig, Aug 28, 2013
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  10. Alcaldemb

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    You just don't get it. Sauerland dominates the European market and broadcasts globally, they are on the same level as Top Rank and GBP. And, arguably, Top Rank and Sauerland have done a better job of molding champions than GBP.
     
    Alcaldemb, Aug 28, 2013
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  11. eltirado

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    I don't mind how GBP takes risks sometimes...example Mares fight...I just never felt the influence as Sauerland, as I follow boxing globally on all divisions & 11/16 divisions of boxing Welter & under, I only see Top Rank & GBP covering globally, all across the scale
     
    eltirado, Aug 28, 2013
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  12. eltirado

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    Time stamped 5 years ago

    The Undefeated WBC Heavyweight Champion is taking the riskiest fight possible
    Meanwhile...
    The hateful lineal peasants are mumbling Iron Age prayers to see Emperor Deontay Wilder fall...
     
    eltirado, Feb 10, 2018
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  13. Jacques81

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    1. Tyson Fury
    2. Anthony Joshua
    3. Sasha Povetkin
    4.Joseph Parker
    5.King Kong Ortiz
    6.Kubrat Pulev
    7.Dominic Brezeale
    8.Big Baby Miller
    9.Tony Bellew
    10.Dillian Whyte

    Honourable mention for Dustin Nichols who is inactive due to incarceration..
     
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  14. eltirado

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  15. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Where are they now?

     
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