The middle and welterweight divisions are as 'healthy as ever' - Max Kellerman

7 years with PBC, and two big fights. He'll be 30 next year.

I know Al is paying him well, but he's shortchanged Errol's legacy by not making fights with the bigger names in his stable.

It is what it is. Errol could have been ahead of where he at this point in his career three years ago if he'd gotten the fights. He's wealthy and a big name now, but big legacy fights got left on the vine because Al would've made less money that way.

No way he'll get Pac next, and good luck seeing the Bud fight ever get made. But hey, now that it's 2019/2020 and they're on the downswing, maybe we'll finally get the Porter, Garcia, or Thurman fights....lol

 

Middleweight is definitely deeper now than it was during the reigns of Golovkin and Martinez. Welter is solid, but doesn't compare to Oscar, Tito, Ike, Mosely, Forrest, Mayorga, Lopez etc.

 

Kellerman is playing for his audience which is the American public. These divisions are where some of their strongest fighters are, so it makes sense for him to tell the world he views them as healthy again and stacked with talent. Nothing wrong with that.

Other divisions are a bit stronger tho - like LHW

 

I think you will find the so called bigger names have been avoiding Spence.

 

To an extent, that's true. But when that's allowed to happen with everyone under the same banner for years, it's on the guy in charge for not pressing the issue.

Example...Sturm ducked GGG back when they were both at Universum, but it was also Universum not wanting their cash cow to get beat that allowed that to happen.

Al milked fights between the rest of them instead of feeding them to Spence, which was Al's choice. Now that most of those big fights between them are tapped out, he'll be more eager to make those fights.

 

LHW has the same problem as WW. None of the top guys are fighting each other.

 

I agree that welter is a very good division right now. Excelent, I would say.

Middleweight... meehhhh. Only canelo and gg, that's all. The rest are just... good, that's all, nothing special, just there to lose to canelo and gg, you need people who lose... so, well, that's fine. But I dont buy the division.