Wilder and Joshua Fighting it out in Nigeria

I don't see the difference between Fury/Chisora and Ali/Bugner.

 

Ali was a dominant champion who cleared the division multiple times, for one.

 

So whats the difference between Bugner and Chisora?

 

Ali was incredibly active as a champion. He puts the other top contenders and champions of his era to shame in that regard as none of them fought as often as Ali.

 

Better "diets", Klitschko longevity and Fury's retirement is partly the reason it is crowded with old men.

Wlad and Vitali dominated a division, but didn't fight very frequently, so there was a build up of contenders. The natural progression would have been for Povetkin to dethrone Wlad, but it didn't happen.

Fury did, but then he retired.

It should have been Fury, Joshua and Wilder clearing up the division. The three of them sharing the load.

Instead we just had Joshua, as Wilder had no interest in taking on the best for many years, and Fury was fighting rank outsiders as part of his come back.

The funny thing is, Joshua gets crap now for actually tidying up a lot of the Klitschko/Povetkin cohort.

 

I think it's a case of everyone fighting infrequently. & the sanctioning organisations rewarding old men for waiting in a line. & too many boxers ducking eliminators (although in the case of Povetkin he did actually eliminate Whyte for another shot, only to be signed into a rematch) .

AJ gets criticism for beating old men.
because they were old men.
which I suppose is a lot better than beating no one. true.
but still.

 

That could make it even better though. Both mentally wrecked by their last opponents.