The heavyweight Division is acutally pretty good

Sultan, Chag, Povetkin and Gomez all have fine outstanding credentials and significant wins as pros. Gomez appears to be exclusively a slick boxer, but the other three are boxer-puncher-brawlers who can win in a multitude of ways. Sultan has hsi fast hands, Chag his iron chin, and both are southpaws.

Povetkin is looks great to me with fast hands and great stamina. He is an attrition puncher to a degree, but I think his power is underrated because he has faced three fighters with great chins (Friday, Doland, Byrd). Reminds you of a young Holyfield.

 

Sultan, Gomez & Valuev are all hard to beat, for any HW for various reasons.

Consider this:

What if Klitschko KO's Povetkin in round 3 & then fights & defends against decent comp. for a couple of years & then retires. Sasha goes on to rule the division for the following 10 years & then he retires with only one loss to Wlad?

See what I mean?

Hindsight is 20/20 and many fools thought Lewis was **** until after he retired. They weren't looking at the big picture.

 

Reading this thread thru I was quite pleased to read Seans posts.

And I think that perhaps the new HW landscape where east Europeans
rule at the moment has hopefully killed off the Don King factor to some extent.
And it's also brought a different media scene into play. These are
good things IMO.

European fighters and media are doing things on their own terms
and it's a better set up for fans in that part of the world (than
it is for fans in the US).

Personally - as someone living and working in S Korea and likely to
be here for a good many years, I quite pleased that I can follow
the HW and other divs here on the net, and stream/download fights.
Boxing may well get a second wind from the fact that people such
as myself can read new info re emerging Eastern Euro fighters coming
out of the Ams, and then perhaps check out a clip of them on you-
tube. I've watched quite a few fights recently live ! streaming from the net.
I remember when I watched Wlad-Peter live and for free streaming
on the net and I thought about how cool this was. If people can
actually get to follow the sport, they can become more interested
in it and maybe think about participating in it. Boxing alienated
a lot of people for a long time IMO coz many many people just
had no real way to engage it without a lot of effort or a lot of
spending of their hard earned money

The HW scene tends to be the one that captures the interest of
casual fans who are general sports fans anyway, and it's prob the
division that youngsters take notice of first too.

IMO Europe is doing all the right things at the moment, and doing
its best to make the HW division interesting and accessible. But
it seems like boxing (and HW boxing in particular) in the US has lost
the plot a bit in the last decade odd, and folks there refuse to
give the Euro fighters and the Euro set up props coz doing so casts
American boxing in a bad light. It's easier to just say the HW scene is
crap worldwide - that's why boxings on a bad footing in the US
at the moment.


PS: South Korea has extremely fast inter-net with most apartments
having direct fibre optic almost right to their computer. The prices in
Yongsan (Seoul computer district) of duel core CPUs + very fast
graphics cards seems to be falling everytime I go there. Streaming
network protocols are getting more and more refined.
I can watch a streamed fight clearly, have the Eastside perspective
and box rec stats shrunk down to look in on between rounds.
Can store lots of fights on the HDD. This technology is getting
more and more ubiquiteous in SK at least. China it's getting
widespread too. The HW division is probably the best division
to use to promote boxing outside of its traditional fan base,
and if it can get its act together and ride on the back of this
cool media technology to generate some interest in boxing in
places like China, that's got to be a good thing. IMO as much
as it is important to acknowledge the long history boxing has
has in the US and the enduring contribution great US fighters
have made to the sport, it's also important to think about the
potential boxing has to expand globally, and the recent trends
in boxing in Europe just go to show that there is a lot of
potential out there for boxing to become a more global sport.

 

i feel like everyone saying the hvyweight division aint so bad are just trying to fool themselves

 

Agreed with the original poster.

Anyone who says the division sucks does not understand the fight game.