Is welterweight the new heavyweight?

[NY12345]

To me, welterweight is the most prestigious, lucrative weight division in boxing. Almost all of the lucrative PPV events in the past few years have been around this weight. A lot of boxing's best up and coming fighters are in this division. Maybe this has been apparent to everyone else for a while, but it honestly just donned on how dominant the welterweight division is in the boxing landscape.

It is the deepest division in boxing today. It is the most competitive and toughest division in boxing. It is has been boxings money division for the last 20 years. The welterweight division is home to Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Errol Spence jr, Terence Crawford, Amir Khan, Danny Garcia, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman and Andre Berto. Good and rich fighters.

Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Amir Khan and Andre Berto are some of the richest boxers in history. All of them have made majority of their money as welterweights.

Is welterweight the new heavyweight? When we look at money, popularity and competition?

[HitmanTommy]

How is this even a question?

[Marvlus Marv]

To me, welterweight is the most prestigious, lucrative weight division in boxing. Almost all of the lucrative PPV events in the past few years have been around this weight. A lot of boxing's best up and coming fighters are in this division. Maybe this has been apparent to everyone else for a while, but it honestly just donned on how dominant the welterweight division is in the boxing landscape.

It is the deepest division in boxing today. It is the most competitive and toughest division in boxing. It is has been boxings money division for the last 20 years. The welterweight division is home to Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Errol Spence jr, Terence Crawford, Amir Khan, Danny Garcia, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman and Andre Berto. Good and rich fighters.

Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Amir Khan and Andre Berto are some of the richest boxers in history. All of them have made majority of their money as welterweights.

Is welterweight the new heavyweight? When we look at money, popularity and competition?

Welterweight could/should be the glamour division what with the talent it contains but as we all know the politics prevents us from getting the superfights at the right time. With that being the case, the HW division is at least delivering its superfights and will continue to do so.

[Larry the boss]

Lightweight,ww,mw and hw have always been to big divisions in boxing

[Boxxymcboxface]

Nah they only weigh 147 lbs. how can they be heavyweights

[Inspired]

only crawford vs spence jr actually matters now.
The lww division has given us better fights lately and it'll be decent when they go to ww and fight the best there. lightweight with the likes of loma, haney, teofimo lopez, tank, ryan garcia is even better than the ww division now.
middleweight and smw have potentially better fights.
the hw division has far more depth to it though.

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[deathofaclown]

Tyson Fury was the highest paid boxer in the world last year, so no, not now. No welterweight even made a fraction of that.

in fact, the only fighters outside of heavyweight making what Fury, Wilder and Joshua have been making is Canelo.

Heavyweight is back. The biggest fight that can be made in boxing now is Fury versus AJ.

[techliam]

Welterweight is nowhere near as tough and glamourous as you’re making it out to be

Once Floyd retired, the division became pretty talent bare

Yes there are competitive fights there. Spence, Thurman, Garcia, Porter, with Crawford being an unknown quantity. But all of those fighters have shown to be roughly at the same level, consistently split decisioning each other in razor thin fights. In fact, the only fighter to beat one of them clearly is a 40 year old Pacquiao, who is nowhere near his best. That shows you the current talent level of the division. Competitive, but not elite talent