How/Why Has The Heavyweight Category Changed?

heavy is crap at the moment.

Right after Lewis left, the division went in a down fall, at his time it was sstill interesting to watch but when he retired that all changed

200+ crusier is from 176 to 190.

the heavyweight division lacks characters wheres the foreman/ali/liston/tyson of today? all the fighters seem so generic and lack character. also the difference in ability is shocking in ali's time the so called journey men were decent now the whole division is ass

What weight range is the heavyweight division AND does that always stay the same, that probably sounds a really dumbass question haha, but answer it ;)

money money money. the greatest heavys with the exception of lennox foreman and ali where all 6-2 and under.louis was 6-2,dempsey was 6-1,marciano was 5-10,johnson was 6-2.the excuse that men are bigger now is utter bullshit.there fatter and shittier fighters,the exception is klistchko.

It's just going throught a drout atm. Expect David Haye to shake things up a bit. I'm not going to lie... but, Kahn looks like a real queer in that picture.

More of a question than a discussion thread. I'm british and to be honest I hardly hear anything about the heavyweight category anymore since people like Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson left the centre stage. And just recently people have been making comments on Tyson threads like "that was when Heavyweights weren't fat" and stuff, just making me wonder, what's changed to make it less boring in the heavyweight category. Fill me in. Listen... dude... Nobody knows anything on this site except things people have read on this site, another boxing site, or watched on TV. So, myself being in that category... my best guess as to the decline of the HW division is the absence of an American/English-Speaking champ. Boxing has been discouraged in this country because we have seen champs like Ali and Frazier lose some capacity in their later years and the best athletes have been pushed to play other sports... especially if you're big(football, basketball).