Would the heavyweight division be better off without the Klitschko brothers?

sure take the best out of the picture and the rest will shine. but no one will dominate.

 

Lets see without them fragmented titles bums with belts I mean fat bums like Areolla Peter Toney Solis would be champs Ruiz Rahman Barret valuev would have looked like monsters. The division does need the brothers not the other way around. What it needs are serious threats. The guys they beat are good and sadly they beat them so bad and early in their careers that their victims look like bums but they need some Lewis's and Holyfield's and Bowe's and Tyson's

 

and the title would be passed around like a volleyball

 

Would it be more open, yes. Would it be better, probably not. Right now David Haye holds the magic key in the division, the last major title outside of Klitschko orbit. So we'll get to see him battle with plenty of the other heavyweights. But the Klitschko's are what Heavyweights supposed to be, Big strong muscular guys that Knock people out, and they are exactly that and it isn't going to be better if they leave and the goo boys try to take over.

 

very true although im not sold on Haye just yet

 

Absolutely agree.

It's bad for the division, and for the other fighters.

The brothers get to pick off the challengers that suit them the best, without ever having to fight each other, and also using each other in contract negotiations.

It's a funny situation that they're exploiting to its maximum. I don't blame them for it, most other people would do the same if they could. But it sure as **** is terrible for heavyweight boxing.

 

If I am David Haye's handlers I wouldn't set him up to fight either as that isn't a good financial move for him unless he is getting 60% or something. He can make just as much money fighting Tomasz Adamek, Chris Arreola, Nikolai Valuev, Ruslan Chargaev, etc.

 

Agreed 100%. This may very well happen in the near future, big brother is getting a bit too old.

To answer the thread's topic, it would surely make the division more competitive, but no I don't think the division would be better without them. Still, the fact that the two fighters that are way above the rest won't fight each other is annoying as hell.

 

how would taking out the only two fighters who aren't terrible from the most important division in boxing help the sport?

 

What kind of Harrison Bergeron **** is this? The division somehow gets better when you take out the two most dominant fighters in it because then it's a more level playing field? Hogwash.

If they fought every other year and held the belts hostage like a number of prior "champs" did over the past decade, I could see it. But fighters who fight proper contenders and do it regularly are an asset to the sport, not a liability.

 

Thats kind of a dumb Q

 

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