Comments Thread For: Will Heavyweight Boxing Stop Sucking in 2011?

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Cliff Rold - There is, for some, optimism as boxing approaches the first major Heavyweight fight of the year this weekend. It has not been unfair to argue the years since the retirement of Lennox Lewis as the least entertaining era in Heavyweight history. Some might even say the worst, period, but the entertainment part is what is really being gotten at.

Least entertaining is not an indictment of the qualities of the best fighters of the time. The brothers Klitschko are good fighters in any era, champions in more than a few, and have made due with what they’ve had around them.

They are a testament to professionalism and focus. Where other fighters of their size and skill might well have sloughed off and still assumed victory on most nights, where other contenders in their time have made a habit of showing up looking like they didn’t show up, the Klitschko’s always arrive ready. [Click Here To Read More]

[Come∂ian]

Maybe, I heard G-Dog is turning Pro and his walk around weight is 270 easily.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Solis is not better then areola

[Marcov]

I'm hopeful but I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. 2011 will be another year of recycled title challengers(without a meaningful comeback win) and prospects pushed into title shots before they are ready. Sounds like 2010 doesn't it.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Klitschko vs Haye if it really happens will get HUGE hype. I don't think the fight will be that great(Klitschko dominant early KO)

[SCtrojansbaby]

here is something you can look forward to not in 2011 but for the future there are 3 young legit talented heavyweights with actual pedigree

Carlos Negron
Denis Boystov
Tyson Fury

[Pirao]

More pathetic bashing of the HW division, pretty sad. Yet the LHW division is all fine and dandy even though a 45 year old MW beat their top fighter, I wonder why the double standards, imagine the uproar if the Klitschkos lost to Holyfield

[Yaconcha]

lets cut the crap.

in scores of 1-10 the klits rate as follows.....
boxing skill: 5
speed/agility: 1
level of opponents faced: 3 (excluding vitalis LOSS to lennox lewis)
punch resistance(wladimir) -1
punch resistance(vitali) 9
power in punch(wladimir) 6
power in punch (vitali) 9 when he connects.
financial draw: ZERO anywhere other than germany.
entertainment factor: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
probabilty of leaving a lasting legacy of excellence: 1 (if either beat the only credible h/w around today,david haye) which is highly improbable considering they are both s.h.i.t and haye already beat an even bigger robotic bumbling statue in valuev.
overall score taking into consideration the lack of decent american talent which is a shame i would score vitali :::::::4! and three of those is his fight with LL.
wladimir however, although he has remained active but again.....no decent american opposition means no real draw in america and because he is way to big and robotic means he has little or no draw outside of germany coupled with the fact that a layed off corrie sanders spanked him senseless in the only fight he has been in where his boxing heart was proven very small it leaves me with very little to be impressed by other than his longevity as the "unified" h/w champ but quashed by all the unimpressive things about him.
im gonna score vladimir:::::an even 2. (the 2 represents the length of time as champ and nothing more)
in summary they are both s.h.i.t and we will forget about them very quickly, just like that big lumux back in the day.....he fought max baer.....the italian....he fell all over the ring.....whats his name? ya see! forgot already.

[SWERVE]

It will stop sucking when Haye gets ktfo and retires.

[Daddy T]

There are a few coming up, but none of them look like really lighting up the world.

Solis
Chrisora
Tyson Fury
Adamek

Hopefully Wlad v Haye will live up to the hype, a Haye win would be good for the sport as it would probably mean another bigger fight after that (Vitali) a Wlad win will just mean more of the same non fights in Germany for the next couple of years.