Was the heavyweight division much better 10 years ago?

[Left Hook Tua]

**** is it a rule that Europeans have the letter V in their name?

wladimir is suppose to be with v too......

[-Swizzy-]

The Ring Top 10 Heavyweights in 1998:

1. Evander Holyfield
2. Lennox Lewis
3. Michael Grant
4. Michael Moorer
5. Shannon Briggs
6. Chris Byrd
7. Ike Ibeabuchi
8. David Tua
9. Andrew Golota
10. Hasim Rahman

The Ring Top 10 Heavyweights in 2008:

1. Wladimir Klitschko
2. Samuel Peter
3. Ruslan Chagaev
4. Nikolai Valuev
5. Alexander Povetkin
6. Sultan Ibragimov
7. Oleg Maskaev
8. Vladimir Virchis
9. John Ruiz
10. Chris Arreola

Opinions? Discuss.

yeah those rankings are kinda flawed with Grant being so high but the hw division back then was clearly much greater. just lewis, holyfield, ibeabuchi and tua are better than the 10 present top hw's.

[Left Hook Tua]

Lewis fought and beat 6 of those guys within a three year period. If only Klit would fight fellow ranked guys instead of those laughable mandatories.

2 of the 3 would've been very little threat to him the 3rd was in prison.

not bad for mr. lennox......

[Chunk..]

That's why Flawless and Duffgun hate the current division so much, they only like black fighters.

You don't like black fighters.

[-Swizzy-]

tunney is the worst voter on the planet. I'm guessing you voted for george bush. first you voted that calzaghe had the better resume over mayweather and now you vote that the hw division is better now. your views are senseless.

[Left Hook Tua]

yeah those rankings are kinda flawed with Grant being so high but the hw division back then was clearly much greater. just lewis, holyfield, ibeabuchi and tua are better than the 10 present top hw's.

i was curious so i looked up grant's resume.

by the end of '98 grant was undefeated at 27-0.

he was on a 4 fight ko streak. knocking out obed sullivan , david izon , jorge luis gonzalez and al cole. the combined record of the 4 at the time he fought them was 102-9-1. this is in addition to a solid win over ross puritty and koing corey sanders a couple years earlier.

can't really blame ring at the time.

[Addition]

You don't like black fighters.

Last time I checked Lacy was black and Tunney is a fan of his.

[Machine Gunz]

That's why Flawless and Duffgun hate the current division so much, they only like black fighters.

Thats no good

[Flawless]

Last time I checked Lacy was black and Tunney is a fan of his.

He is fan of Lacy so he can hype him up and makes Calzaghe resume look better.

[Flawless]

That is called Calzaghe Hyping 101