Should the heavyweight division be split up into more divisions?

Wouldn't be a bad idea. If I could have the divisions my way, I would have this 118 Bantamweight 122 Super Bantamweight 126 Featherweight 130 Junior Lightweight 135 Lightweight 140 Junior Welterweight 147 Welterweight 154 Junior Middleweight 160 Middleweight 168 Super Middleweight 175 Junior Cruiserweight 200 Crusierweight 225 Heavyweight 260 Super Heavyweight 118 minimum and 260 max. With Just 1 Champion per division. At most 2. **exclude the thumbs down sign

I'm not sure. Really I think there should be a more wide ranging review of the weight divisions. Otherwise the only option is to add a Super Heavyweight division, which is probably justified but it wouldn't make much sense for the divisions to go 160 - 168 - 175 - 200 - 240 (or whatever).

Sorry SHonuff You beat me to it I see.

I would hate more divisions but if it was up to me I would change all of them 216^ Heavyweight 215 Cruiser 194 LightHeavy 173.5 SuperMiddle 164 Middle 156.5 SuperWelter 148 Welter 142 SuperLight 135 Light 128.5 Feather 120.5 Bantam 114.5 Fly 110 Straw

Guys want to be heavyweight champs, that's we're the money is and has always Been. I'm sure many HWs can make CW if they wanted This, exactly. If something was hypothetically done, I would hope it doesn't create another division.

I think it would be useless to create a new weight class between cruiserweight and heavyweight. You do not have to weigh 201 to fight a heavyweight. You could weigh 170 and still fight a heavyweight unless the boxing commission did not allow the fight. Just about every cruiser weight champ sooner or later will try to get a fight with the heavyweight champ. Many light heavyweight champs go after the heavyweight champ. If a guy is the champ of this new 220 pound weight class do you think he will be satified with that? You know he will go after the unlimited heavyweight champ. Some of the best heavyweights of the past were not that big at all. Fitzsimmons was the heavyweight champ at 167 pounds. Prime Liston 215. Prime Foreman 218. Prime Frazier 205. Prime Ali 206. Prime Jack Johnson 192. Prime Louis 198. Prime Dempsey 188. Prime Marciano and Charles 184.Those guys often weighed in in street clothes after lunch and were still that light. You do not need to weigh 240 pounds to be the best heavyweight in the world and history proves it. Dempsey weighed 180 pounds when he crushed the 250 pound Jess Willard.

hell no a 200lb boxer can generate enough power to knock anyone out. just because your heavier doesn't always mean you have an elephant chin

Yeah because thats what boxing needs more division and more fake champions..

I'd like to see boxing do something like this with the divisions. Imagine how exciting a new 215lb division would be. Heavyweights should also have to make weight like every other weight class. It would be better for boxing in the long run. 107-Flyweight 114-Bantamweight 120-Featherweight 127-Junior Lightweight 134-Lightweight 140-Junior Welterweight 147-Welterweight 154-Junior Middleweight 160-Middleweight 167-Super Middleweight 175-Light Cruiserweight 190-Cruiserweight 215-Light Heavyweight 260-Heavyweight

At one time the minimum weight was 175lbs. It's now at 200lbs. I think it should be raised in line with the increase in average height and weight of the population and fighters in the division compared to when it was set at 200lb. I wouldn't consider a man of just over 14 stone to be a big man.

No. Size when it comes to being above 200lbs can become a double edged sword, yes you may be bigger and stronger at 250, but you'll be trading that of for speed, athleticism and endurance. This is what usually happens when you go up in weight but the rate at which it changes once you get above 200 is much quicker. Chris Byrd a natural 168lb fighter backed up and stopped big VK at 250lbs.

The heavyweight class is an "OPEN Division"! Theres no weight limits for the class and thats the way it should be!!! The Heavyweight Champ is the premier Title to hold and if a 165 pound man wants a shot and earns it then he should have it!!!! The greatest heavies have generally weighed 190 to 215 in their prime! Because the division is in recession for the last 15 years and the titlists are over 235 doesn't mean that their weight has allowed them any advantage!! The problem is that there isn't 6 quality heavies in the world today!!! Skill level, talent and heart with the will to win is the heavyweight creed not how much a man weighs!!! Ray Corso

You're kidding, right? The last thing this f*cking sport needs is more weightclasses.

naturally, I'm a small Cruiserweight. When I first started boxing, I had trouble against all the 6'5+ CW's with longer reach than me. Even though I'm small at CW, it almost kills me to drop to 175 (I have to drop 20 lbs). There are Middleweights over 6'3 and I can't even get down to super middleweight at 5'11. I would like a division between LHW and CW, like "Light Cruiserweight", but from a fan's perspective, there are already too many divisions, so no.

Guys want to be heavyweight champs, that's we're the money is and has always Been. I'm sure many HWs can make CW if they wanted

Yes. They should bump light heavyweight up to 190 and raise all the divisional limits a few pounds. Cruiserweight 190-215.

I think it would make more sense to raise the CW limit to 210 or 215 pounds,because we certainly don't need any more divisions Its a hard sell though,i can't see it happening