Should there be a super heavyweight division?

[Guest]

The big money is at heavyweight though. I guess that's why a lot of fighters do it. Just look at Eddie Chambers: he's a very slick fighter, but he's never going to beat a Klitschko in a million years. But the money he'll earn will be worth it. It was the same with Byrd and a lot of others.

Yep, Haye, Adamek. Cruiser has had some great fights, they just aren't big big money ones that only happen with the biggest baddest men on the planet.
I don't think anything will change that.

[TheGreatA]

The big money is at heavyweight though. I guess that's why a lot of fighters do it. Just look at Eddie Chambers: he's a very slick fighter, but he's never going to beat a Klitschko in a million years. But the money he'll earn will be worth it. It was the same with Byrd and a lot of others.

In fact I'd encourage all the talented cruiserweights to step up to heavyweight in order to make the division more interesting. And they should fight at their natural weights, be it 190 or 250 lbs. Chambers has already shown that enough skill can beat size against Peter and Dimitrenko. Haye did it against Valuev.

The division needs all the potential talent it can get.

[The_Demon]

i think their should be
but who would the klits fight? their are only so many arreolas and peters in the world

[DrewWoodside]

Or is the current HW division already to sparse?

The way the heavy weight division is now makes no sense. Nowhere else in boxing do you have such absurd size disparities. There would be so much more talent able to compete at heavyweight if they didn't have to contend against giants. Arreola/Minto was the perfect example. Not speaking about Minto, but how can fighters moving up from Cruiserweight be expected to contend against monsters 250+? They were just fighting at 200! It's completely ridiculous and a Super Heavyweight division would immediately revitalize the division.

[Boxingwizard]

The current division is already too sparse, creating a super heavyweight division will just completely **** the division. It's not the lack of size that's the problem, it's the lack of HW boxers getting in shape, a lack of skills, mental toughness, and many other attributes. Which is why most of the heavyweights can't compete with the Klitschko's, who are like the Mike Tyson of the mid 80's.

Lets just put it this way if a boxer natural weighs walks around 230lbs and can get down to 210lbs, than he's a heavyweight. There is too many weight divisions already, and the Klitschko's won't be able to fight anybody because there is not to many boxers who naturally weight 240lbs.

[steeluv]

If people continue to get taller as a human race then envitably it will have to happen maybe in the next 50 - 100 years