The heavyweight Division is acutally pretty good

:-(

 

What a lame response.

 

2000-2003 was ok.

2004-2005 sucked. Probably the worst years for HW history ever.

2006 was below average but things were getting better and 2007 has been ok. Things will only get better with guys like Wlad, Chagaev, Peter, Haye, Povetkin, etc.

 

I don't disagree with you entirely; certainly fans look at past eras with rose-colored glasses. On the other hand, your take might be a "glass-half-full" one.

 

good post.
many will critisize and say that era or that fighter was better , but i have also long said there is nothing wrong with todays heavyweight scene .

another good thing is don king has been frozen out as it used to be the case you could not have a heavyweight fight without a fighter of his fighting another fighter of his or a mandatory and it used to be one long recycled merry go round.

 

Heightweights today are fat and lazy. If they had any ambition whatsoever they would be out playing baseball or football.

 

Good point.

 

Lord knows there aren't any fat, lazy baseball or football players.

 

.....yeah, but boxing ends up getting the dregs

 

I am asuming you are talking about American HW's?

 

The current crop of heavyweights are a lot better than many people think, but this does not mean that the division is good.
The heavyweight division has always been full of interesting characters and exciting fighters in the years gone by, everybody in the western world knew who the champ was.
What do we get now? Competent yet bland fighters involved in boring title fights that don't even make the sports pages of the press half the time.


Sorry, but the heavyweight division sucks.

 

The HW division is widely dominated by one boxer, Wladimir Klitschko, whose status as a top 50 p4p is debatable. I fail to see how the HW division can be viewed as pretty good.

 

Now that Don King has been largely extracted like an abcessed tooth from the heavyweight title scene, you can expect to start seeing the best fighting the best, and the resulting unified heavyweight champion will mean only good things for the division, as a whole.


With ONE man to beat, and him clearing being the one that everyone is gunning for, you'll then have a stronger competition pool who all have a clear objective, instead of having four mini heavyweight divisions, as we have, now, where the competition and talent pool is dispursed out over four seperate bodies, thereby, greatly diminishing the quality in each.

The reason the division is seen as so lackluster is cause of what I just stated, not cause of any of the fighters............its in a lull cause none of the top fighters have been fighting each other.

 

The divsion sucks, and the boxing fans have spoken by showing little interest in televised matches. Unless Holyfield or Tyson fought there was very few PPV matches being made in the 2000s, which can possibly be considered one of the most boring decades of all time.

As far as one of the reasons Cachibatches mentioned, about the Heavyweight division lacking popularity because there is no Heavyweight title holders is a false statement IMO. Just 2 years ago all 4 title holders were american, you had Rahman WBC, Ruiz WBA, Bryd IBF, and Brewster WBO. Many boxing historians, HBO and Showtime often made fun of the division just as much as now on there telecasts.

I think fans are pissed for a few reasons, one being lack of matchups the people want to see, another is long lay offs and postponements by the current champions. I think also the lack of overall talent is in question as well, with many fighters being one demensional in there styles. I think last but not least, many of todays Heavyweights lack the personality needed to attract people to there matches.