Where are the US HW's?

[rickJen]

US HW is basically dead.

[LA_2_Vegas]

IDK man, seems to me Fury just beat the best American multiple times and uses one of the best US prospects as a sparring partner.

Wilder is the size and dimensions you are asking to see, maybe being that big is not the best attribute, but only special fighters like Fury make it is look like it is.

[tritium_arma]

Cause current Americans are losers like yourself.

[Zelda]

Fcuk is wrong with them? Fury fights like once a year and just made 40M.

They are missing out, boxing isn't like the old days you make it to the top and you're working 1 or 2 nights a year for tens of millions.

Fury is making money because he is a great salesman and he is THE champion. Wilder was making way less until his career took off lately. Ruiz was also making low money until that upset.

how much is Ortiz making? how much is Hunter making? or Breazeale? or Sanchez? or Ajagba?

Now compare it to how much a #5 or a #10 ranked basketball player is making? or an American football player making? Know that not all people will become the #1 so as a general career, those other sports are much better paying than boxing.

[TMLT87]

The funny thing is if you look at Boxrec America still has multiple times more active HWs than any other country, roughly 7x as many as the UK. Over a quarter of HWs on the planet right now are from the US.

[sicko]

it wasnt worth it before when wilder was on small money, but AJ+Eddie Hearn, Dazn and then the rest....it's now too lucrative to ignore. Wilder was offered ****** money and turned it down.

still not worth it, very long process to get to that point why go through all that when you can become a Millionaire by 19-20 years old if you're good enough at those other sports

guys with size in America only take up Boxing or even MMA after they failed at those other sports

[REDEEMER]

Jared Anderson and Sonny Conto are possibly the future of the division so i wouldn’t say there’s no U.S heavyweights though most top guys are in the U.K . If you consider Ruiz a U.S fighter he was the unified champion not long ago .

[deathofaclown]

I’m sure some will come along.

It has been a long time though, I’m not sure you can even blame it on boxing possibly not being the glamour sport it used to be because there’s still so much talented American fighter in other weight classes, so It just seems a bit of an anomaly that there has been so little in the heavyweight division over the last 20 years.

i used to think it’s because the heavyweight division wasn’t sexy when the klitschko’s dominated, especially for Americans, so it didn’t inspire kids to wanna take up boxing but that can’t be true because most people start young before they probably have no idea of how big they’re gonna be, so it’s never stopped the talent in other weight classes coming through.

Then again, the longest reigning champion outside of Wlad in the modern era was Wilder, so can’t say USA were doing too bad. It’s just Wilder wasn’t the best.

[Smash]

The funny thing is if you look at Boxrec America still has multiple times more active HWs than any other country, roughly 7x as many as the UK. Over a quarter of HWs on the planet right now are from the US.

thats a bit odd isnt it

wilder gets slagged off but hes top of that pile by a long way

[dkamds]

Sounds like op is upset because the great black hope (wilder) got destroyed by a fat white guy. (fury) Op also doesn't understand that a large variety of athletic specimens do not box, thats why the hw division is what it is. Most of those other guys play football or basketball where it's easier to make millions. Cmon now this should be common sense.