why do you guys want wlad to retire so much

[RadioCart]

so the the heavyweight division can get a false sense of being more "competitive" but yet being more ****ty with belts passing around back and forth.....

[SlySlickSmooth]

So some other guy can realize "I can handle ALL these dudes" and light a fire within himself so HE can be the entertaining champ(hopefully).

[RadioCart]

So some other guy can realize "I can handle ALL these dudes" and light a fire within himself so HE can be the entertaining champ(hopefully).

lol the division will get worse once wlad leaves...............

[Dolor]

So some other guy can realize "I can handle ALL these dudes" and light a fire within himself so HE can be the entertaining champ(hopefully).

I am afraid that it will not be "some other guy", but "some other guys" - so in the end we will have 5 ABC "champs" again, loosing and regaining their titles every 3 months. I am not sure that will be good for the division.

[PainfromUkraine]

The compromise would be highly inferior skill on show, for arguably greater excitement of seeing slugging matches and belts being passed around every few months? Personally, I don't think it would be good for the HW division at all as it is pretty likely a lot of contenders and maybe even champs will probably be out of shape, or at least not fully dedicated athletes that are just on top due to single tricks such as power or size... IMO that would denigrate and disrespect the division and sport a lot worse than it is at the moment...

[A_Jeffrey]

When Wlad retires division will be a lot worse, just like when Lennox retired Liakovich and Brewster were so called "champions".

[Jam Jars]

Because hugging/leaning your way through every fight isn't "boxing".

[Jam Jars]

The compromise would be highly inferior skill on show, for arguably greater excitement of seeing slugging matches and belts being passed around every few months? Personally, I don't think it would be good for the HW division at all as it is pretty likely a lot of contenders and maybe even champs will probably be out of shape, or at least not fully dedicated athletes that are just on top due to single tricks such as power or size... IMO that would denigrate and disrespect the division and sport a lot worse than it is at the moment...

We'll get less skilled hugging, what a disaster.

[A_Jeffrey]

Because hugging/leaning your way through every fight isn't "boxing".

so now Povetkin fight become every fight? lol
when did Wlad hug Wach, for example?
Povetkin initiated all the clinches himself. He did same thing against Huck. Just jumped under his armpit.

[PainfromUkraine]

We'll get less skilled hugging, what a disaster.

TBH, it actually would be even worse...take a look at Leapai v Boytsov, I tried to watch that fight on youtube and I just couldn't...had to keep skipping forward...and you can just imagine if that type of find would be for belts if K2 were gone. OK, I am not saying Wlad's clinch tactics (when he initiates them purposefully) are right or good to watch, but at least he uses it meaningfully and not in such a sloppy way like the snail paced, gassed-state inducing clinches of less athletic boxers.