The lower divisions in Boxing are underappreciated.

With the smaller guys you usually get great action, some real fun fights. 118 is hot right now so people who don't watch these fights are missing out on entertaining fights.

Absolutely. 118 is by far the best division in Boxing right now and most don't even realise it. It's one of those divisions that's nearly always good. Kind of like lightweight, though lightweight is currently the worst it's been for as long as I can remember. The smaller divisions in boxing are by far the best today. In comparison to the depth and breadth of talent everything from 147 up seriously sucks.

Absolutely. 118 is by far the best division in Boxing right now and most don't even realise it.

Some people just don't like the little guys. I for one enjoy watching them fight, especially Segura, Gonzalez and Donaire.

Only in America are they unappreciated.

All good to me, weights have different things to offer, i draw the line at straw and minimum though. Then again i wouldn't not watch them if there were more of them on bigger cards. Tyson Marquez v Concepcion has easily been the best fight of the year.

I believe the only way the lower weight classes will get the attention it deserves is having a fighter with a unique personality to go along with the skills and talent. The more entertaining (controversial, exciting) the personality to go along with the small stature and talent, the more attention he'll receive. He probably doesn't have to win every fight, but he needs to be able to back up the talk with the skills and excitement. Exposure in mega fight undercards will only help much more. The lighter fighters aren't promoted as big as the higher weight ones. The fighters fight and go home. No fan fare, no outstanding personalities. Boxing is entertainment, and if the fighters can fight AND have the magnetic personally to awe the fans, the lower classes will attract much more eyeballs. Just my opinion.

118 is as low as I watch and that's only because of donaire. Seriously 105 lbs?

it's hard to get into strawweight, those guys are NEVER on television. Segura's real good though, I follow almost religiously from heavyweight to bantam (and formerly super fly when Darchinyan was making his tear), and I try to pay attention to who has the belts at least, but I probably wouldn't be able to name ten current fighters off the top of my head from any division below bantam primarily because the amount of exposure is so low.

I love the lower weight classes, but I understand if it's hard for some to follow them. Many of the cards take place in Japan, Thailand, Mexico, etc. and they may not be easy for some to get a hold of. Plus, some just aren't interested them. I'm the opposite of most really. I follow the smallest of divisions, but don't pay much attention to CW and HW.

Kazuto Ioka could be a potential star 22 years old and after 7-0 world champ.Suppose to be Japans next big thing

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/19/article-1267288-0933D686000005DC-644_306x440.jpg this man agrees

I watch 115 up and look out for Segura fights.Anything below 115 never really interested me

Its because there are so many damn weight classes at that level. When only 2 or 3 lbs seperates weight classes, it seems so pointless. If the just merged them into Minimumweight, Flyweight, Bantamweight and Featherweight, it would be incredibly easier to follow. also, the talent pool at Minimumweight is the lowest in boxing. There are comparatively so few fighters there, as opposed to Lightweight-Welterweight.

Ill be honest, i only follow 126 and 118 I have almost no idea or interest in the other lower weight classes

I honestly pay just about zero attention to 105 and 108. I watch everything from 112 and up. I know there are good fights and fighters there, just don't see them enough to care and I'm not going to go out of my way and download some japanese card or whatever it may be. 105 and 108 are bullsh!t classes anyway, just make it 112. No grown man actually weights 105 pounds :lol1: Yea I get what you say with the lowest divisions. 105 and 108. They should just make 112 the lowest. I gotta admit i dont bother watching any of the flyweight divsion. The flyweight division is pretty good and great fights can be made. Hernan Marquez, Giovanni Segura, Roman Gonzalez and even the known warriors like Chango vargas, Rodel Mayol, Edgar Sosa, Brian Viloria, Luis Concepcion are always for sure good fights. Even the lesser known guys will put on gutsy performances.

If they are good fights then I'll take interest. Calderon vs Segura Darchinyan vs Donaire Marquez vs Vasquez Been some great fights at the lower weight classes in recent years Bantam to feather seems to have a lot of talent at the moment and some great fights to be made. Lot more interenting than the cruiserweight and heavyweight scene.

They are unappreciated because there is no Americans dominating it. Or maybe that there is just no promotional media blitz for those lower weight class. Its not like the US didnt cover Pacquaio, Barrera, Morrales, Naz, Marquez, Juan Ma, Donaire, Gamboa and didnt hype them up.

I gotta admit i dont bother watching any of the flyweight divsion.

I never paid much attention to the lower weights until i saw Naz, after that i went back to rewatch fights from the lower weight, discover Finito lopez, saw Quiroga-anifowoshe etc but the lower weight need a big star to shine upon their division if not then you would get comments like those ones. It's not that we need a big star because potential stars are already there, it just needs more exposure. I'm sure if promotional companies and the networks began to add some of the lower weight title fights and eliminators to the big events people would be exposed to them and eventually the fighters might be asked to be back.