Why do people pretend that boxing below lightweight matters?

The same emoticons again! Super Hans=GloriaAblaze? HMMMMMM.

 

Why do people pretend that anything below heavyweight matters?

 

Everyone knows that the HW champion would beat all the other fighters from the lower divisions, but that is unimportant. It is not about that.

The lower weights offer other guys to fight relative to their size. By doing this we get to see many more fights. Many more fights that are nearly always better than HW fights.

Fair enough if you can't expand your mind enough to understand and appreciate that and just have the mentality of wanting to watch the biggest guys fight, but many other people can. You even proved this yourself by saying the HW division means more than all the other divisions put together (which is a subjective topic) and then go on to say that it, "might be an unpopular statement". If you say something unpopular over a subjective matter then it may suggest, certainly in this case, that what you said holds no weight.

The fact is, the lower weights nearly always contain more skill and action than the HWs. Not just now, but historically. Look at Ali, the greatest HW of all time - a poor mans, limited SRR.

 

By that logic why even have lightweight? Or welter? Or middle? Or even cruiser?

 

lol they are the same person

 

Sam Langford would have been started at Bantamweight in todays draining culture

To be fair most modern fighters are actually 30 lbs above the weight they fight at, when compared to a fit casual & probably even more when compared to Dan Rafael types (who can make flyweight if drained of the cream & lard he stores for the cold winters)

 

Boxing first and foremost is a sport, which I watch purely for its entertainment value. I would much rather see 2 nimble fighters with more footwork, faster combinations, more punches thrown, better movement than see 2 slow giants duke it out.

The heavyweight's of today are far less entertaining than the lower weights, no current heavyweight today can move anywhere close to Tyson or Roy Jones, they are slow as hell and most of them are overweight.

In short we watch them because although they are smaller, they can do everything a heavyweight can do in the ring plus more.

 

The fact you even asked the question tells me you are not a boxing fan.

 

I'd bet that the 5 or 6 of the extreme nationalist trolls that are infesting this site are really only like 2 guys, 4 of them being Hans.

 

Would you agree though that below 126 nobody really cares except for diehards.

Pacquiao was a dominant 122 pounder, but nobody even heard of him and he was just considered a prospect until he got to featherweight. Because nobody cares about anything below 126.

And only the exceptional fighters get noticed below 147.

You know how many threads there would be on loma, russell, etc. if they were middleweights?

A billion.

 

Or perhaps, Maybe all 6?

 

Is someone butthurt their country doesn't have any top players in the weight range where some of the p4p best (Chocolatito, Inoue...and half a generation ago Narvaez, Viloria, Calderon, etc.) dwell? :hey