Would you consider the current (era) MW division to be one of the weakest?

[crowntowntaps]

Lets go by decades 2000s, 90s, 80s, etc... For the glamour this division once had its pretty much rendered to blown up 154lbers as of recent (passed 10yrs or so) that couldnt hack it at 154 so they move up for a chance. The only full sized MW really is GGG which is why he looks so dominate. If the MW division had the talent/diversity/&depth of prior generations or other "present" weight classes I doubt we have such a GGG bandwagon.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Bernards era was garbanzo beans. His biggest wins were blown up welterweights. Trinidad and DLH.

[The Big Dunn]

Peter Quillin is the 2nd best MW in the world, Jermain Taylor just won a belt and andy Lee is in a title fight.

Survey says-yes.

[The Hammer]

No.

There's recently been some paper titleholders and duckers, thanks mainly to Al Haymon...

But Golovkin is as good a middleweight as we've ever seen!

There's a fairly decent supporting cast with Lee, Quillan, Lemieux, Jacobs, Geale, Murray and N'Jikam.

And the division has plenty of up-and-coming talent with Khytrov, Saunders, Eubank, Derevyanchenko, Magomedov, Etches, Meryasev, Kulumbegov and Ogogo.

Plus some of the bigger guys at 154 like the Charlo brothers, Andrade, Alvarez and Trout may soon move up to 160.

[gingerbreadman]

Take Hagler out of the early 80s and it looks pretty damn weak, it only got decent when fighters came up. I guess it depends how long you define an era, in 2010 160 wasn't bad. If you compare, say Martin Murray to Tony Sibson, or Quillin to Obelmeijas, N'dam and Andy Lee to Mustafa Hamsho, I don't think there's much of a difference. The proliferation of titles definitely makes it look weak, but the early 80s and to an extent the early 2000s had a dominant champ and then a big gap. So the current era isn't definitively the worst IMO, even though I can't think of a time that it's by the same token definitively better than.

[Daddy T]

No it's pretty decent. there is a great champ in GGG and several decent contenders, lee, quillin, saunders, Lemieux, Jacobs, Geale, Murray etc.

GGG haters want to say it's weak because he is so dominant.

[ИATAS]

new account, first post about GGG. Another Alt.

[nivek535]

yes it sux.
does that make u feel better that we discredit ggg's success?
sick mentality bruh.

[Eastcoast]

MW's been weakend ever since the JMW & SMW divisions took hold in the late 80's. After Nunn & Toney it took a dive.

Hopkins era was weak just by looking at his resume.

Remember Taylor making a fight with Sergio Mora as his best opponent, then having to settle for back to back to back JMW's?

Pavlik's title defenses consisted of Gary Lockett, Miguel Espino, and Rubio. Sure Sturm & Abraham were there but nobody was fighting one another, and outside those three there were no strong contenders. Kind of like Martinez settling for Dzinziruk (JMW), Macklin, and Barker rather than fighting Pirog.

If Pavlik or Taylor had oppurtunities to fight contenders like N'Dam, Lemieux, Quillin, or Murray, their reigns would've looked a lot better. For that matter I have loved to see Bernard fighting guys like that after he beat Tito rather than Carl Daniels, Morrad Hakaar, a shot William Joppy, or Robert Allen for the third freaking time...

[Kagami Taiga]

People should juat say it's a weak division. Because it is a weak division.