Why is this the weakest era of HW boxing

90es were very good. but please dont defend old fat and slow foreman being champion at this time.
and todays era is not the weakest! weakest era was 80es!

 

Briggs became a champ in this era as well, Valuev lost to a geriatric Evander, and Wlad was beaten by a part time golfer and a bloke who was gammy in one eye.

 

Huck probably won more than 7 rounds actually. I didnt say Saurland robbed Huck buddy. But the judges cores were way off. Povetkin was huffing and puffing and rocked several times by the much smaller Huck! You know it as well as Dan Rafael,Freddie Roach who commentated on the fight.


Klitschko-Povetkin at long last?

December, 19, 2012 12/19/12
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By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com

"Povetkin had a huge struggle with Chagaev to win the vacant “regular” belt and also got a gift decision against cruiserweight titlist Marco Huck, who moved up in weight, in a horrible performance in February."

 

Oh Ok. I understand my man.

 

ok

 

It's not a particularly weak era at all. People just want to believe it is. Some believe it is because they get swept up in the proclamations of others. Some people simply havr nationalistic and/or racial agendas. Other arguments regarding thw better athletes being in other sports are hilariously flawed.

The HW scene is sure as hell stronger now than 10 years ago. Marciano's era was pretty weak (the best fighters were fading and Ezzard Charles was downright ill). And don't even mention the era between Dempsey and Louis. Oh, and the middle of Louis' reign.

 

And when fighters aren't proving themselves, they are essentially nothing more than glorified prospects.

HW division sucks, has for a decade now.

Considering it's history, it is at an all time low.

 

A cruiserweight, and not an especially good one, put a beating on one of the top longtime heavyweight contenders. Robbery or not, that paints a poor picture of the heavyweight scene outside the Klits.

This isn't an era of superheavyweights. It's an era of fat lazy men afraid to fight each other. I don't care where they're from they still make for a sucky, uninteresting division.

 

Let them... they cant understand.
one can also look at the stats: http://www.***********.com/compubox-historical-stat-analysis-povetkin-vs-huck--49986
this fight was close but no robbery. but you cant expect much from people who say the 90es were much better than todays boxing.
were an old slow fat foreman (coming from a huge lay off, I think 10 years) beats the lineal Heavyweight champ at that timeatsch

 

Povetkin was **** there but he can do much better thats for sure.

 

Many of the top fighters of Louis's day were laughable skill-wise. Baer fought like a wild animal, Galento was a glorified toughman contestant and Abe Simon could barely move without tripping over his own feet. Go back even further and things become even more ridiculous. Fireman Jim Flynn and his flying headbutts anyone?

Current division sucks, but fighters like Scott, Chambers, Cunningham and so on at least show legit world class skills re: crispness of technique, fluidity of movement, accuracy and timing etc. Hell, even Solis and his amazing expanding belly is still recognisably a top flight boxer.

Show someone like Galento to the average public and they'd laugh themselves silly.

 

This era isn't really different from Holmes era 78-83 or even Tyson's era 85-88 just a bunch of contenders getting beat.

Go look at some of the Optional and Mandatory fights Holmes had and tell me this era is worse. Scott Frank, Marvis Frazier, Lorenzo Zanon, and Tex Cobb got title shots for christ sakes :roflatsch

 

According to this website: http://www.fightnews.com/rankings-2 Haye is ranked 5th by the WBC, 1st by the WBA and 4th by the IBF and the WBO while Adamek is ranked 10th by the WBC and 11th by the IBF but is ranked outside the top 15 by the WBA and WBO. But I do not know how recent those rankings are.

 

and the facts is that they arent bad fighters. they just havnt prooved enough against other contenders.


it's a conveyor belt of promoter/mangers trying to cash in on the general lack of gate keepers and contenders. so they create unbeaten fighters to walk to a title shot. which leaves them unexpereinced against VERYYY expereinced fighters. with povetkin holding the 'spare' belt hostage he is in the best position and is completly milking it.

crabs in a bucket. to many prospects not enough contenders.

 

I actually defended the era for quite a while, and will still defend it where I think necessary, but I'm getting sick of competitive fights falling through, endless ducking and record padding from so-called contenders, shameless manipulation of the belts, and ****ish apologists trying to claim that Wach, Pianeta and so on are worthy title challengers.

Ten years ago we still had Sanders, Brewster, Byrd. Danny Williams and Hasim Rahman weren't shot to ****, Evander still had a bit left in the tank, Toney was on fire, Peter and Chagaev were exciting prospects. What have we got today? A longstanding top contender afraid of his own shadow, a feather-fisted former LHW who has to resort of hometown decisions to win his fights, up and comers getting knocked out by geriatric old men or simply afraid to take on anyone who isn't currently holding down a full time job, jiggling titties, protruding jawbones, thinning hairlines and uppercuts to the face.