Has their ever been a WW era as weak as today's WW division?

[Seleção No. 13]

To be fair, the top dogs a few years back (Cotto, Margarito, Mosley, and even Clottey) beat each other up already.

[strongisland24]

I don't feel it is a weak division. Floyd and Manny are both up there with the all time greats IMO

[BennyST]

Just about every division is weak. There isn't really a GREAT division right now. Some are better than others, but none of the divisions seem to be loaded. For a while 168 was looking good, but too many of those guys looked terrible in the super six. Taylor was shot. Abraham has been miserable. Suddenly old-man Johnson is back and looking fierce in that division.

Fighters are able to jump divisions and cherry pick titles because there isn't a lot of great competition.

147 is terrible but as this says, most divisions are poor atm. There are a couple of great ones like 115, 118, 126 is good and 140 of course. 168 is probably about as good as it's ever been in its short history, not great though by any stretch.

It's all the smaller divisions that are the best now. The great divisions historically are terrible right now. Lightweight, Welterweight and Middleweight are the best historically and they are some of the poorest.

[BennyST]

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...rweight--2000s


2004:


Cory Spinks, Champion

1. Antonio Margarito
2. Zab Judah
3. Thomas Damgaard
4. Michele Piccirillo
5. Manuel Gomez
6. Kermit Cintron
7. Jawaid Khaliq
8. Carlos Manuel Baldomir
9. Teddy Reid
10. Cosme Rivera

Ouch. This one above followed closely by now and only because of Pac and Money Mai.

[pbftxrs316]

Floyd is a ****ing joke. He should never be ranked number 1 at welterweight when he ducked all of the top welterweights. All my points to whoever rids the earth of Floyd Mayweather.

shows how much you know dumby--he just dominated and beat the undisputed ww champion--and he would be the 2 time undisputed ww champion had he paid sanctioning fees for the mosley fight--and you would still find something to b1tch about-lol---

oh yeah, and he beat the champ at 147, not 145--remember that--now that fighter he just dominated is about to fight manny----now what?

[pbftxrs316]

it's really just a huge lap in competition--it's manny and floyd vs everybody else--and the competition is not really there---that's why when they meet up---the fight will be so big---

[paulf]

This is how boxing works man. Divisions heat up like crazy, then they cool off for a few years. WW was loaded a couple years ago with Floyd, Cotto, Margarito, Mosley, Williams, Judah, Berto, Clottey.

Guys get losses, guys move up or back down in weight, guys retire, and the division becomes a ghost town.

I mean, look at 140 three years ago. It was ****. You had

Malignaggi - IBF
Witter - WBA
Gavin Rees - WBA (WHO?)
Ricardo Torres - WBO
Ricky Hatton
Hlatshwayo
Lovemore Ndou
Dimetreus Hopkins (lol)
Randall Baily
Herman Ngoudjo
ect


Now it's PACKED with talent. Bradley, Khan, Alexander, Ortiz, Kotelnik, Lamont Peterson, Marcos Maidana, with Judah and Morales making comebacks at 140 and Marquez able to come over to 140 any time.

And by this time next year it will probably be close to empty.

[mrpain81]

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...rweight--2000s


2004:


Cory Spinks, Champion

1. Antonio Margarito
2. Zab Judah
3. Thomas Damgaard
4. Michele Piccirillo
5. Manuel Gomez
6. Kermit Cintron
7. Jawaid Khaliq
8. Carlos Manuel Baldomir
9. Teddy Reid
10. Cosme Rivera

This year was also pretty weak.

1977:

Carlos Palomino, Champion

1. Pipino Cuevas
2. Pete Ranzany
3. Randy Shields
4. Harold Weston
5. Floyd Mayweather
6. Armando Muniz
7. Clyde Gray
8. Jose Palacios
9. Everaldo Costa Azevedo
10. Bruce Curry

[minasyan]

118 - this is a great division

Fernando Montiel
Nonito Donaire
Joseph Agbeko
Vic Darchinyan
Abner Mares
Anselmo Moreno
Yonnhy Perez