http://www.boxing.com/the_cruiserweights_stacked.html
Suddenly, the cruiserweight division looks red hot.
One result can do that to a division, and so it was for the 200-pounders when Marco Huck and Ola Afolabi turned in a Fight of the Year candidate in Germany last weekend, producing a stunning 12-round draw. As soon as the final bell rang the pack had to be reshuffled to accommodate first of all Afolabi, an unexpected hero and newly anointed top man behind his outstanding display, but also Marco Huck, who had seemed bound for the heavyweights but who may now find that he is bound instead to his WBO cruiserweight title.
Perhaps of all the divisions cruiserweight was most in need of and least likely to receive such a boost. Boxing’s least favorite stepchild, the cruiserweight division has the most difficult history to unpick, its identity undermined by the British habit of referring to the light heavyweights under that name as late as the 1970s and by the original weight limit being pegged at 190 lbs. and only later being moved to the current roof of 200 lbs. It can hardly be a surprise that the first ever title fight made under the cruiserweight banner ended in a draw, fought between the unheralded Mate Parlov and Marvin Camel in December of 1979. The division comes with all the negatives associated with huge size, the relative slowness of hand and foot, the terrible drag on stamina such a huge frame imposes on a fighter, the inherent nervousness seen between fighters who understand each can end the fight with a single blow and the inevitable drain on talent from the big bucks on offer in the weight division above—a but it has never enjoyed the associated glamour that the heavyweights enjoy. Big, but not the biggest, cruiserweight is and was and will continue to be a division without a true identity.
But these are high times. Cruiserweight may be the best division in boxing right now. It is stuffed with talent, punchers and prospects. Whether or not these men will get to settle the argument concerning which of them is best or unify a hopelessly fractured title is a question as open for debate as the question of which results the fights themselves would produce, but that is not a question we are going to explore here. What we’re going to do here is admire the talent on offer, working our way through my personal choice for the division’s top five; who they are, what they can do, how they might do against one another and then sneak a peek at the men hovering just below them.
They were trying to make a super 6 at cruiser, what happened to that?
:dunno: don't know what happened...I heard they were gonna do one as well....I hope they make it happen...Sauerland controls dam near the whole division so it should be really EASY to put together
the CW division needs a tourney....there's enough good fighters in the division to make this happen...imo the division is over looked and underrated....USS, Troy Ross, Huck, Hernandez, Lebedev, the Polish dude with the long ass name, Tarver, Afolabi, Danny "the Legend" Green....and if dudes like Haye, Chambers and Adamek fought in the division they belonged in....it would be the BEST imo
They were trying to make a super 6 at cruiser, what happened to that?
the CW division needs a tourney....there's enough good fighters in the division to make this happen...imo the division is over looked and underrated....USS, Troy Ross, Huck, Hernandez, Lebedev, the Polish dude with the long ass name, Tarver, Afolabi, Danny "the Legend" Green....and if dudes like Haye, Chambers and Adamek fought in the division they belonged in....it would be the BEST imo
haven't really paid attention to anyone there sans Cunningham
it does look like it's getting better right now
there just aren't really big names at CW
we'll see what Tarver has left against Kayode, expecting to lose tbh
Toney and Roy are shells already, Tarver isn't much better
Cruiserweight is very interesting, but to call it "best in boxing" is just silly.
Marco Huck, Hernandez, old Jones all are average champion waiting for right opponent to upset them and Wlodarczyk is one of the worst champions in boxing right now. Among best contenders we have Afolabi, who really can fight and in reality should've won both times against Huck, Chakhkiev, who I believe is real deal and really good Lebedev. Actually I belive that those 3 challangers and Huck are making top 4 of the division.
Beside them, there's way-past it Cunningham and Tarver, another good prospect in MAsternak and decent challanger who should be a champion in Palacios.
I like this division, it's really interesting, but It's not close to be even among 5-best division at the time.