Unpopular opinion, next era of heavyweights will be more exciting and stacked with more quality

Dubois is arguably apart of the next generation, smashed aj to pieces. Dubois has proven himself to be the same talent level as joshua or greater. Itauma, Jalolov, Kabayel, Bakole, Opetaia, Okolie, Wardley, Ajagba, Huni, Anderson, Torrez, Vianello, Teremoana, etc will all play a part and very likely plenty of other Olympic/Amateur talent that just hasn't went pro. I think the next era will have more heavyweight talent and the ducking will decline due to saudi jumping in the mix with their moolah.

 

I agree, I'm excited as well. This era of heavyweights had the personality but the boxing skill level was not that great IMO.

 

You forgot Parker

He is only 32 and will be a top HW for years....

 

Out of these guys, who have the most chance of being relevant, only two are under 30.

Only 1 is under 29.

Oh, and Joe Parker is barely older than several of them.

Now this right here is something we can certainly agree on hoping for - regardless of whether the fighters are as good, or not.

 

i want more smaller agile heavyweights (210-230 lbs)

 

I doubt it, todays fighters fight once a year, hard to get excited about that

 

They will still play a part in the beginning of the next era, there are plenty of young Olympic boxers i didn't list because they just aren't pros yet

 

To be totally honest...

We don't really know who's going to make it and who isn't, yet.

There are some talented young guys who look like they have the potential - Itauma in particular - but until we see their chins properly checked and how they deal with the challenges whilst climbing the ladder, we won't really know who's going to make it and who isn't...

Dubois is clearly going to be up there, the only question is how he'll cope with being the favourite, can he find the same motivation when he's not the underdog - beyond that, how successful and/or how dominant he is will be determined by how good that next crop are... And we just don't know that yet!

 

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Having Bakole in there is quite amusing

Never his reported age

 

Jalolov will never have a pro career.

A number of those guys who mentioned are over 30.

Others just suck.

We will see. It could be a good era. Guys come out of nowhere and beat your expectations. I would add Gadzhimagomedov, Parker and Gassiev, as well. Dronov in the long term. But no, doesn't look great to me.

 

This.

 

The current era was dominated by a evenly mediocre talent pool, sold as ATGs.

It would be nice to have a competitive AND extremely talented era at the same time.

 

No one will be greater than usyk for sure

 

Itauma - need acid test plenty of time for him.
Jalolov - bum dosser
Kabayel - 32 needs more activity
Bakole - old will retire soon on off part timer but could be champ
Opetaia, too small and would need style changes like Usyk did to compete against big boys.
Okolie boring won't last
Wardley - Nothing special very bog standard Ajagba, Huni, Anderson, Torrez, Vianello, Teremoana. Nothing about any of them.

I'm working on a Fury Usyk hybrid clone in my basement right now who will take over