Is there a heavyweight champion of the world?

[abright1]

Cuban Amateur HW-Champion >World-Professional HW-Champ

Gold-Medal-winning Cuban HW-champs of last few decades, such as Teofilo Stevenson, Felix Savon (etc...names escape me)...with professional training would show most of the champs since the retirement of Larry Holmes for pretenders. Teofilo Stevenson, for example (Gold Medalist at three consecutive olympics in the 1980s was awesome...as disciplined as Hopkins, but with Foreman-type power)..

Whenever the US-boxing team goes face to face with Cuba, they get clobbered in a dozen or more of the 17 weight classes.

BTW, same thing goes for baseball--whenever ANY Cuban ballplayer (ANY-one good enough to represent his country...even a bench-rider) escapes, they become MLB all-stars.

[Guest]

I tell you something... one of the heavies I like to deride the most - Frank Bruno - could probably take these buggers out.

[DiegoFuego]

Anorak, you can't vacate him as the champion just because he doesn't fight much. This implies that you considered him the champion to begin with. HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?! Are you new to boxing? To be the champion, you have to collect the belts (after the undisputed champion retires). Lewis retired, and so many of you idiots wanted to claim Klitschko was now the champion, when there was no champion after Lewis! You have to earn that right, and nobody in the division has done that this far. He never was the champion, and if you considered him to be the champion, how can you take away his status for not fighting often? Make some sense, fool

[Hitman932]

agreed

There is no heavyweight champion until at least two belts are unified. Klitschko is definitely NOT the champion, although he is probably the best.

couldnt agree with you more.

i like brewster more than byrd or ruiz but i cant see him beating vitali. reason being that i think lamon brewster is the kind of fighter that is driven by success. i dont see him getting complacent as you could argue everyone else has become.
he knows as well as anyone that his name is only viable when hes the champ, so hes going to work to stay there. (and probably will forever against this army of golotas that is the heavyweight division)

[Konstantin]

Vitali is the Champ. Who does everyone call out when they win?? Vitali.

[Guest]

Anorak, you can't vacate him as the champion just because he doesn't fight much. This implies that you considered him the champion to begin with. HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?! Are you new to boxing? To be the champion, you have to collect the belts (after the undisputed champion retires). Lewis retired, and so many of you idiots wanted to claim Klitschko was now the champion, when there was no champion after Lewis! You have to earn that right, and nobody in the division has done that this far. He never was the champion, and if you considered him to be the champion, how can you take away his status for not fighting often? Make some sense, fool

You little *****.

I always kind of considered him "champion in waiting" as not only has he got the most prestigious belt, but he also has the Ring belt and is commonly regarded as the premier heavy on the planet.

To clarify: I considered him to be more of the champion than the others. While Byrd has a technical win over him, it was caused by him getting the **** knocked out of him for several rounds, and Ruiz wouldn't put up much resistance...

[jayr517]

Vitali is the current "champion", but I think that term should be used very loosely in the current state of the HW's. He's the champ, but so what? The division sucks. Its like saying someone's the smartest idiot.