Cruiserweight...is this a dead division?

[Y0@NN]

Mchunu ****d chamberss ass

I know, that was sarcastic.

[Weebler I]

None of the top fighters are from the USA or the UK, and that's why it doesn't receive much attention. But the division is loaded with talent:

Usyk, Makabu, Mchunu, Kudryashov, Drozd, Lebedev, Huck, Hernandez, etc.

Needs a US with vision to invest in a big-punching Usyk or Makabu to get people interested. No way people wouldn't tune in to watch those two, interest in the division would flow from there.

yoan pablo hernandez is a good cruiserweight. I havn't really followed his career and woulda thought he would have moved to heavyweight by now.

He'd get folded at HW.

[AvoidDisaster]

What's a Cruiserweight?

[Humean]

I agree that the division is not dead but this is hardly true. The division has had many better years previously.

The mid to late 80s was the best (the Holyfield-Qawi fights being its height) but this era we are entering could well be better, especially when it comes to depth. The 90s and 00s didn't have the depth that there seems to be right now.

[sicko]

When has the Cruiserweight Division ever been ALIVE? When Holyfield was a Cruiserweight Maybe? David Haye had a good run as a Cruiserweight.

I don't remember it ever being a Hot Division. It could Heat Up in 2015 though with Edwin Rodriguez and Tony Bellew now in the Division.

[loui_ludwig]

Because its not getting media attention.

[LacedUp]

When Tony Bellew is in line for a shot, you know what's going on.

Has a few good fighters, but none that excite me really. Maybe I'm just not exposed to them.

If anyone could tell me something about some of the exciting cruiserweights, please let me know.

Huck isn't doing it for me, that's for sure!

Hopefully someone like Kovalev will go up once he's cleaned up. Bring some excitement into the division. Make Cleverly run back to light heavyweight.

[Jewish-Reptile]

There seems to never be threads,news or any talk about this division at all..

I think this is another American misconception.i mean all the top guys aren't from the states so I presume this is where these posts come from.

Although it doesn't help with guys like Huck defended 14 times against complete duds,and not taking a competitive defence since they did in fact lose to Lebedev ! Their really needs to be more unifications and stricter federations in the division.

Things should heat up in the division the next 12 months or so,the wealth of talent has never been as deep.

[JTfloyd]

There seems to never be threads,news or any talk about this division at all..

Last time the division was good was the Bell/Mormeck/Braithwaite days, with Jirov/Toney being the last great cruiser fight, imo.

[Sancho Puncho]

It is forgotten indeed. Last great fight in Cruiserweight was Jirov-Toney and that was 12 years ago.