Who and (more importantly WHEN!) will the HW division be jumped started back to life? (sry for the typo in title) Anyone know of any serious young contenders? It seems to me that the division is screaming out for some exciting fresh blood, problem is it's been that way for years. Still no end in sight?
The division is healthy, you just don't see 1) many punchers 2) boxers with perfect body shape and especially 3) black American talents around who dominated before. The most idiotic thing of fans I hear is that the Klitschkos are boring... well Wlad can be boring, Vitali is some bad mofo, but what do you expect anyway, they are BOXERS, not punchers. The same fans praising Mayweather's skills are bashing the bros? Lol! Ruslan Chagaev, Juan Carlos Gomez, Alexander Povetkin etc. they are all very solid fighters but then again, boxers not punchers and fighting outside of the US, but they sell out like the big American HWs used to sellout. And there's Haye and Adamek, two very capable fighters and bunch of promising talents etc... I'd say the first few post-Lewis years were horrible, guys like Briggs, Maskaev and Brewster got the titles, but then they got decisively beat by the Chagaevs, Ibragimovs and Peters, and the Klitschkos are decisively beating these improved champions and all unbeaten/top contenders out there. Then again, you, I guess as part of the American TV market, get what the networks broadcast and it's pretty weak (and fat, lol). Internationally, the division is alive however, just being abused by two superpowers, who, then again are boxers not punchers, but scoring spectacular KOs (Wlad) or nasty beatdowns (Vitali) anyway.
You mean 10-20 fighters right?! The heavies like the middleweights are in a very low period. Unlike the middleweights the heavies have no real prospects or the lower wieght class has no hot prospects that can move up. I have given up on the heavies for years now and i cannot see me caring about them agian for a very, very long time.
Well, I'm going to assume you mean once the Klitschko's vacate and retire when will the division get more interesting. After the Klitschkos retire and assuming it is in 3 or 4 years, David Haye stands to probably pick up the pieces, Also by that point if Deontay Wilder lives up to the hype he will be coming around as a serious player.
Thanks for the responses. I suppose I was hoping for something like "joe bloggs" is coming through the ranks and he looks unstoppable etc. Shame. Looks like we'll have to wait for Haye to put the cat amongst the pidgeons re: toppling the Klits.