How/Why Has The Heavyweight Category Changed?

[JF91]

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.

[HappyBoxingFan]

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).

[msagrain]

It's just going throught a drout atm. Expect David Haye to shake things up a bit.

[HappyBoxingFan]

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 ***** in that picture.

[AntonTheMeh]

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 bull****.there fatter and ****tier fighters,the exception is klistchko.

[duffgun]

Conditioning is the problem and lack of exciting fights.

[JF91]

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

[duffgun]

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

200lb plus it used to be 190lb and above, and before that 175 and above. Most of the old heavyweights would be in the cruiserweight division now. If you want to see classic sized heavyweights in great matches watch the cruiserweight division. Mormeck Vs Bell 1 was a great fight and is available on our video section.

[Hagler★]

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

[The Hammer]

A lot of people are unhappy because most of the best heavyweights in the world are from Eastern Europe: Chagaev, Wlad, Ibragimov, Povetkin, Virchis, Valuev etc.

That's why there's so much negativity expressed about the heavyweight division, and the reason it's ignored by some people. When an elite American black heavyweight comes along, he'll become VERY popular with the media and boxing fans, and we'll be hearing a LOT about the division.