How I know HW's Today Are Shi* Compared to even the 90's.

[AntDawg]

The HW division is the same as it has only been but for a brief period when several excellent fighters were competing at the same time in the 70s.

It is the same as always where there are just a few guys who are head and shoulders above the rest and a bunch of contenders who can't touch them really and are not on their level.

Arreola is the modern day version of what Ray Mercer was in the 90s.

Arreola is far worse than Mercer imo. His punches are way to sloppy.

[Spray_resistant]

Arreola is far worse than Mercer imo. His punches are way to sloppy.

Dude Mercer would've KO'd Arreola and was in much better shape when he was a contender. Look at guys like Norton, Evander, Razor Ruddock, trilogy bowe, tyson........at least they were athletes.

Most contemporary HW contenders look physically sloppy and have a lot of bad weight on them.

I don't buy the whole "weak HW division", most of these more ripped HWs competed in a time where most HWs would be CWs today.....its the whole reason the CW division was created because some of the very small HWs here deemed too small to compete with bigger guys.....even up until 2003 191-?? was the HW division

[Steelhammer2011]

You Americans have gone soft.

Eastern European heavyweights are superior. We're stronger, tougher, hungrier and more determined than you Americans.

Deontay Wilder = poor man's Michael Grant

Here's a video of the glass chinned Wilder getting KTFO by Russian Evgeny Romanov...The KO is at 1:50 of the video:

[Capital Punch]

Not sure how you can reckon the 90's was superior. Rid**** Bowe fighting jokes like Mike Dokes and Jesse Ferguson in so called title fights. Holyfield almost KO'd by Bert Cooper. Nah!

[Mikhnienko]

Another reason for the legalization of PEDs in sports.

lol that Chambers you saw today was on PED's, didn't help.

Dude Mercer would've KO'd Arreola and was in much better shape when he was a contender. Look at guys like Norton, Evander, Razor Ruddock, trilogy bowe, tyson........at least they were athletes.

Most contemporary HW contenders look physically sloppy and have a lot of bad weight on them.

Adamek
Povetkin
Boytsov
Pulev
Haye
Virchis
Platov
Chagaev
Ibragimov
Glazkov
*****ko
Lyakhovich
Brewster

Are all athletes too and i'm sure i'm forgetting a bunch.

[Steelhammer2011]

You Americans have gone soft.

Eastern European heavyweights are superior. We're stronger, tougher, hungrier and more determined than you Americans.

Deontay Wilder = poor man's Michael Grant

Here's a video of the glass chinned Wilder getting KTFO by Russian Evgeny Romanov...The KO is at 1:50 of the video:

Russia completely dominated USA.

[Left2body]

I don't buy the whole "weak HW division", most of these more ripped HWs competed in a time where most HWs would be CWs today.....its the whole reason the CW division was created because some of the very small HWs here deemed too small to compete with bigger guys.....even up until 2003 191-?? was the HW division

Yeah, you have some points but a 209lb HW shouldn't look as soft as Chambers did. Many are just blown up heavy weights. Chambers, Bird, James Toney. The fighters of the past were also in that 210lbs-220lbs range but were a truer 210-220 than these guys we see now.

[Left2body]

lol that Chambers you saw today was on PED's, didn't help.



Adamek
Povetkin
Boytsov
Pulev
Haye
Virchis
Platov
Chagaev
Ibragimov
Glazkov
*****ko
Lyakhovich
Brewster

Are all athletes too and i'm sure i'm forgetting a bunch.

Most of those are up and comers. I'm talking about the recent past, the belt contenders of the past 2 years or so.

[Johnny Rebel]

Holmes and Bowe are considered great champions yet they both looked soft as can be yet most of the chiseled fighters couldn't beat them for some reason...

Most of the guys Tyson was KO were chubby club fighters. The NBA and NFL were just as popular and black since Holmes was champion so quit using that lame excuse (I don't remember anyone using that excuse when Holmes, Tyson, Holy, Bowe and Lewis were champs, so why use it now?) to try and dent the dominance the KlitschkO brothers are having for an unprecedented length of time and challenges.

[tyger]

You will get no argument from me it is the worst era for heavyweights!