Comments Thread For: Schaefer: WBSS Has Elevated the Entire Cruiserweight Division

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HOBOKEN, N.J. Richard Schaefer can't imagine many boxing fans would be excited about the cruiserweight division if it weren't for the World Boxing Super Series. Schaefer, one of the tournament's promoters, thinks the WBSS' talent pool and single-elimination format have drawn fans to the often-overlooked division between light heavyweight and heavyweight. The WBSS cruiserweight tournament thus far has produced Yuniel Dorticos' spectacular second-round knockout of Dmitry Kudryashov, Oleksandr Usyk's compelling 10th-round stoppage of Marco Huck and Mairis Briedis' mostly unremarkable, unanimous-decision victory over Mike Perez.
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[elcashanilla]

ummm to where people still dont care about this tournaments the arenas are empty the fighters are unknown enough said

[PittyPat]

In terms of quality match-ups, very much so... except for that fucking horrific stinker between Briedis and Perez (well, the latter's fault).

Gassiev and Wlodarczyk need to put on a good show to keep the momentum that Usyk and Dorticos started. Hopefully a 12-round war this time.

[AdonisCreed]

Wait.... it did??? When was this?? Lol... I watch boxing allot but I can't really get into the cruiser weight division to follow it like I do other divisions.

[R_Walken]

I think Shaeffers right

The winner of this tournament has some clout behind them and will be in the the discussion for P4P

The WBSS is a great event, the production is A+ , the undercard fights have been entertaining

hope they make it a yearly thing and do the 140lbers next

[Dr.Cool]

Less than 500 Americans total even know there is a cruiserweight division. Less than 50 know of this WBSS. Cruiser is a division for hws who can't win at hw and for lhws who can't win at lhw. The entire division is like a jv team or a division II high school team. No one has ever cared about cruiserweights and no one ever will.

[Eff Pandas]

Yea I agree. Granted its not as big as it coulda been if it'd have received more higher profile US coverage.

It'll be curious to see how the CW + SMW winners of this tournament get received afterwards. The CW guy is the guy, but the SMW guy might just be the #1 contender at 168 more than seen as the guy. But for sure specific fighters should walk away much bigger than they came in.

[Flabble Scrote]

Cruiserweight always had a lot of potential, especially now as humans are bigger, not just fatter.
Its more like a natural weight , like middleweight was like 50 years ago.
They could consider upping the weight limit too , heavyweight has too many natural cruisers that just bulk up or are fat.
Raise the weight limit and improve the depth of cruiserweight and the competitiveness of heavyweight as the big guys have to shape up and skill up and can't rely on many of their opponents being much smaller.

[Kiowhatta]

Apologies to CW fans and no disrespect to the fighters, but this has always been a lame duck of a division.

Now the WBC wants to create a super heavyweight division, they can't see through their bull**** rationale about it being for the safety of the fighters when it's really about sanctioning fees, that what this does is dilute an already HEAVILY diluted sport in terms of structure.

Yes, it's the fight fans constantly overstated, unrealistic hope and dream to see a return to the old divisions, with one sanctioning organization, but the mind boggles at the contraction and subsequent concentration of talent.

Imagine Cruisers having to either move to HW or LHW, with SMW having to move to LHW or to MW?

The single list of top 15 would be a thing to behold; as it is, a healthy division is lucky to have four champions, and at best, the top 2-3 contenders world class, beyond that, it's a joke.

Can't the sanctioning bodies realize a merger would create massive interest, enough revenue for everyone, more fights more often, larger audiences, with the only major hiccup all the complex contracts signed between promoters, managers, networks, and fighters? So it will never happen. Sigh...

[jas]

wbss has potential to make promoters and sanctioning bodies irrelevant which will obviously be great for boxing