Should there be a Super HeavyWeight Division?

Exactly. Their has only been a handful of fighters 245-250 + Who were actually in good shape. Most heavyweights would struggle to gain the muscle mass to be able to retain a low body fat percentage at that weight hence we would have even more mismatches, phenomal physical athletes like the Klitschko's against fat out of shape "athletes".

 

They should just rename Cruiser to heavyweight and heavyweight to superheavyweight.
A lot of casual fans and non boxing fans will be fooled.
Cruisers at fight night can easily weight on fight night 215 pound.
Cunningham etc looks more like a heavyweight boxer than those fat slobs

 

that would be a bad move.
the reason why big fights, as rare as that is nowadays, are big is because the man on the street only knows oscar de la hoya...lennox lewis, george foreman, ali....and so on.

HW is the poster child for boxing - don't confuse the masses.

 

No, just because there are too many weight classes as it is. However, it is a different era. Small heavyweights are just at an extreme disadvantage. You could actually have several different heavyweight classes if you think about it similar to lower weights. 235, 247,260. It would be terrible for the sport. It should just stay 200+.

 

theres not enough talent above 245 to make any worthwile matches. How bout bringing back 13 and 15 round fights and start calling the excessive holding. Manny Steward is to blame. He teaches the tall guys to throw the 1 2 punch and if you miss just hang on. imo this is not an unitentional clinch, this is holding and its ruining the sport more than big guys over 250lbs. I think bringing back the endurance factor would even things up for the smaller guys.

 

size doesnt win fights. look at eddie chambers and chris byrd.

 

LOL, any fool knew when the Steroid'ed Klits first came on the scene that they were being slotted into the wrong division.
These monster robots were never meant to be fighting at Heavy weight and they and Doctor Frankenstein's other clone, Valueva required the addition of a Super Heavy weight division.
Russians knew this but quickly realized they might make some money by having a super Heavy weight dominate a weak HW division. and so it is, two robot SHWs have completely killed the HW division with boredom.

 

Nobody was crying out for a SHW division when Lewis and Bowe were champions, and rightfully so because size means nothing without skill.

 

so 6 ft 4 + cruiserweights such as enzo macca would have to move straight into a super heavyweight division? :huh


i don't want to see a superheavyweight division, but i'd like a reshuffle to reflect todays world...get rid of some of the lower weight divisions (do we really need 5 weight divisions below 120 lb?), change cruiser back to 190 and introduce a 220 super cruiser division. HW will be 220 + which is near enough what a HW needs to weigh these days anyway to compete