Do you actually care about Heavyweight Boxing?

[nomadman]

Without the K brothers I see the Heavyweight division declining even further. They bring a lot of money and people to the sport. It would take a lot of years for it to get up again without them.

I think the division could go one of two ways after the Klits retire. Either it descends into total farce or it becomes relatively competitive and exciting again. I hope for the latter of course, but fear that the Klits might be the last ones really holding everything together.

[Mr. Invincible]

Helenius-Chisora was pretty fun. Although I don't like Helenius. He's like a Tyson Fury who made it too high in the ranks for my own liking.

To be honest Fury is looking better and better and he beat Chisora pretty soundly as well.

[nomadman]

To be honest Fury is looking better and better and he beat Chisora pretty soundly as well.

Fury does look better but he's so sloppy and inconsistent and has so many flaws I'm amazed he's got this far. He's like a less talented more featherfisted version of Rid**** Bowe, a fighter I was never particularly sold on either.

And Chisora was a blob.

[Mr. Invincible]

Fury does look better but he's so sloppy and inconsistent and has so many flaws I'm amazed he's got this far. He's like a less talented more featherfisted version of Rid**** Bowe, a fighter I was never particularly sold on either.

And Chisora was a blob.

He was out of shape but didn't look particularly sloppy or winded. Solid win for Fury. I wouldn't mind a rematch.

[bojangles1987]

I think the division could go one of two ways after the Klits retire. Either it descends into total farce or it becomes relatively competitive and exciting again. I hope for the latter of course, but fear that the Klits might be the last ones really holding everything together.

Even if it's competitive though it might be because of the lack of skill, which would be worse than watching the Klitschkos for me. Others might disagree, but I'd rather watch Wlad and Vitali smash the fake contenders in the division then watch those same fake contenders be competitive with each other.

It'd be nice if Povetkin grew a set and we could find out how good he can be. Other than him, maybe Chisora, and maybe Fury, they are all just awful.

[Mr. Invincible]

Even if it's competitive though it might be because of the lack of skill, which would be worse than watching the Klitschkos for me. Others might disagree, but I'd rather watch Wlad and Vitali smash the fake contenders in the division then watch those same fake contenders be competitive with each other.

It'd be nice if Povetkin grew a set and we could find out how good he can be. Other than him, maybe Chisora, and maybe Fury, they are all just awful.

Based on Povetkins last performance I think he will be competitive against the Klitschko's, at least for a little while. He has will and I think he knows how to get inside and doesn't get scared to fire combos.

[Heeb]

I like the little guys more, but HW boxing is great too.

[nomadman]

He was out of shape but didn't look particularly sloppy or winded. Solid win for Fury. I wouldn't mind a rematch.

Yeah solid win, not taking that away from him. I just find Fury very beatable right now.

[nomadman]

Even if it's competitive though it might be because of the lack of skill, which would be worse than watching the Klitschkos for me. Others might disagree, but I'd rather watch Wlad and Vitali smash the fake contenders in the division then watch those same fake contenders be competitive with each other.

It'd be nice if Povetkin grew a set and we could find out how good he can be. Other than him, maybe Chisora, and maybe Fury, they are all just awful.

I think there's enough skill in the division that we wouldn't end up seeing glorified toughman contests, and whilst the overall skill level would obviously be lower I don't see that as a bad thing as far as excitement goes. Look at the British domestic scene. There've been some barnburners there where two evenly matched guys were put together with lots to lose and lots to gain. Back and forth fights with KOs galore. One of the best HW bouts of the last decade involved two decent but not outstanding fighters in Lamon Brewster and Sergei Lyakhovich. Sometimes, when there's no clear number one it can spur fighters on to greater efforts.

[Pugilistic™]

Not really.

I do watch some fights at heavyweight here and there but for the most part, my interest is in the lower weight classes.