The Heavyweight division will always be the premier division in the sport! Why you say? Well the simple answer is the best heavyweight fighter will be favoured to beat any other fighter from every other division. You could say Klitschko is the best boxer in the world, and I'd agree. Who beats him? Nobody IMO Klitschko could run the gauntlet of every other champ in every other division on the same night. He wouldn't even need to have a break between fights.
Wlad would never fight Golovkin or Lomachenko. He would be labeled a ducker, but one is his cashcow, and the other a countryman. :think
I read a thread the other day about divisions fans followed. A lot of you guys were hating on the heavyweights supposed lack of skill and work ethic etc. Preferring to watch midget 126lbers go at it lol. Those 126 lbsers would struggle to beat me lol, how skillful is that? If it were such a terrible division why do fighters cut weight so they can duck the big boys. Basically every fighter 175lbs up walks around as a heavyweight. Kovalev and Stevenson would probably walk around well over 200lbs. Some 168lbrs walk around close to or above 200lbs.
You cant hide in boxing it aint no team sport, your comparison isn't fair. Obviously 1 on 1 Howard would easily be the greater player so in that instance, yes 1 on 1 he is better. Klitschko would beat anybody below 200lbs all time. Only true heavyweights would stand a chance.
Tony Tucker would smash Lomachenko, even if Loma goes all the way to 140 and beats every titlist there is finishing his career 50(49)-1:-(
And he beats Hagler 100/100 times as well. He walks down and KOs Bernard 100/100 times. HWs are HWs, and the rest are but children in comparison.:rofl
The division is absolute crap. The fact that Haye vs Wladimir was promoted and advertised as the biggest fight of this horrific era says enough.
:deal Heavyweights are where it's at, always will be. No matter what anybody says about the division.
Hating heavyweights is a boxing tradition. If you had 30 years of boxing magazine back issues you could thumb through three decades of boxing magazines declaring the heavyweight division at its all time worse. Ten years from now the heavyweight division will be considered even worse and so on.
So guys like John Stockton, or to even further drive the point home, Muggsy Bogues, Nate Robinson & Spudd Webb - all "hid" behind a team dynamic where they could blend in with bigger teammates and weren't actually great athletes or difference makers on the court? Is that what you are saying?
Boxing fans can't relate to a white heavyweight long-term boxing champion like Wlad Klitschko dominating the division like he has for nearly a decade. All his opponents get that hang-dog, defeated look after a few rounds of his power left jab. His wicked left hook and brutal right cross or overight hand pretty much seals the deal if the opponent is courageous enough to get past that jab and try to fight Wlad. It is what it is.
Yes easily, just like Danny Green says "one punch can kill" Tucker would be a top 10 heavyweight in any era, he's very skilled, with great intangibles. I believe he'd beat anybody below 200lbs today as well. Tucker would be par with a Fury in todays era maybe slightly below. (I put Fury top 5 atleast today)