the days of prestigious heavyweights like ali, joe louis, marciano, dempsey, are gone.....
unless of course tyson fury, wilder, and joshua get it on.... and rescue the division again....big If.
if you took all the boxers who participated at 160 lbs vs all the boxers who participated at heavy,
the sheer amount of great versatile boxers would overwhelm the number of great heavyweights.
sheer numbers alone, the greatness of 160 outnumber greatness of heavys.
now you want to talk semantic greatness like "prestigious" "reverence" whatever, then yea, one or two heavyweights as singular transcendent talents of their sport, sure nobody touches heavyeweights ali and louis..... and jack johnson.... but talking pure boxing skills,
160>>>>>>>>>>>HEAVYWEIGHTS
historically.
Yeah for sure. Once it became the norm for fighters to show up over 220 then boxing went way down hill.
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