Would you say this is a strong welterweight division a weak one compared to past eras

[Pugilist95]

I often hear people saying that this is one of the weakest. I'm just wondering what you guys think.

Edit: *would you say this is a strong welterweight division or a weak one in comparison to past eras?

[Fidel456]

Their is no welterweight division. Welterweight is full of catch weight fighters now. U can't compare Tito, Oscar, and Quartey to these guys.

[Wuckoo]

I would say the division has to be active for it to be strong. Like featherweight is. A strong division usually has a combination of champs with good resumes and skills alongside promising prospects. I think there is a good talent pool in today's welter division it's just that we don't see a lot of fights since they only fight twice a year. Pac and bradley only fought twice this year as did floyd. Most of the criticism is due to inactivity.

[Fidel456]

Even welterweight Macho Camacho would beat these wanna b welterweights.

[SlySlickSmooth]

They're not fighting each other. What other Welterweight fights were there this year besides

Porter-Brook
Khan-Alexander
Bradley-Chaves
Thurman-Bundu
Khan-Collazo

Not guys who come up from Lightweight and below. Fights between top 10-15 Welterweights vs each other.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

A weak one..

Anytime the division is weak of true welters, it gets invaded by the smaller weight classes..

Look around, floyd, manny, marquez, Bradley, etc. Not a lot of true welters, though the division is getting some in thurman, Porter, Brook,

It's not historically horrible, but a weak era, similar to the early mid 90s when pernell bumped up and became the kingpin..

[Larry the boss]

This ww division is horrible compared to the past,hardly even any real ww's

[Larry the boss]

They're not fighting each other. What other Welterweight fights were there this year besides

Porter-Brook
Khan-Alexander
Bradley-Chaves
Thurman-Bundu
Khan-Collazo

Not guys who come up from Lightweight and below. Fights between top 10-15 Welterweights vs each other.

You missed Floyd-Maidana....Floyd is fighting all the top ww's and gets no credit for it for some reason

[SlySlickSmooth]

You missed Floyd-Maidana....Floyd is fighting all the top ww's and gets no credit for it for some reason

Yeah that is true I left it out, but Floyd started his career at 130. I tried to name just the 140/147 career fighters fighting each other.

Don't worry, I left out Pacquiao-Bradley too.

[Spray_resistant]

Its a poor division, Floyd and Pac are really more money making attractions now than competitors in any particular division.

You have Maidana, Thurman, Khan, Bradey, Provo***ov, Ali.

Now much of a weightclass.