The Heavyweight title Lineage

I take your point entirely Gaz, but with the newfound depth and diversity there would be a lot more fighters vying for attention (and $$$$'s) so they'd have to fight more regularly.

How would these behemoths gigantic bodies hold up to 5+fights a year against speedy, elusive opponents??? Upsets would happen, it would make for a more intriguing and open division, and would we say that Earnie Shavers, or Jerry Quarry at his very best, would falter today just because of their size? I doubt there are any Cruisers who are anywhere even their level of dangerousness, but with fight footage readily available nowadays and modern conditioning techniques, I think the smaller his could compete in a richly competitive and more busy division.

Again, completely hypothetical, and therefore pointless :rofl

But these massive Heavys has prospered in a poor division. Lennox was massive, a lot of his very good opposition was nit as big as him, yet some made it competitive. In 20 years, these kind of fighters could spring up again, the pre-Bowe trilogy Holyfield was not massive: Id favour him over both Klits as they stand today.

It would take time: opening the floodgates is nor going to immediately create a Hilyfield, Joe Louis or Jack Dempsey, a giant slayer so-to-speak. But it will make the divsion more engaging, exciting and will engage the public again, creating more media exposure and more young'uns being turned onto Boxing, meaning the guys that could be great Heavys won't go into different sports that seem easier and more glamrous, because the Heavyweight Boxing scene just doesn't provide that allure anymore.

IMO :good

 

Chris Byrd for instance, was succesful, and feather fisted to boot :deal

 

Good thread by the way :good

 

But why would the big guys have to take 5+ fights a year? In any case after a few beatings it could be the smaller guys that sustain the damage, lose the will etc. look at how Quarry ended up in later life?

I know what you are saying but your examples of Holy, Shavers, Quarry were generally giving around 20lbs away, that doesn't compare with what you'd be asking todays guys to do routinely giving up 2 or 3 times that amount every time they fought a top guy. Thats not the same thing as Dempsey or Louis, who were ATGs, beating the odd "monster" here and there.

(Yep, its a **** division!!)