Sorry, but this heavyweight era is pretty bad

[boliodogs]

That is why I follow 175, 168, 160, 154,147, 140,135 and 130 much more than I follow heavyweights.

[QballLobo]

That's a myth mate. Mike Tyson wasn't beating would-be basketball or NFL players. People get into things they are good at. Those who can fight get into boxing or MMA, those who can play basketball try and get into basketball, those good at football try and get into football. Please, everyone, let this myth die.

Not a myth. The more young athletes go out for a sport the more elite ones your able to find. The guys Tyson was fighting was the product of so many young athletes trying to box young and the best one’s sticking with it to the top.
A fraction of youngsters care or are interested in boxing so you find less pro prospects overall.

[Armchairhero]

The young athletes that in the past would have tried boxing coming up have no interest in the sport.
They now play football and basketball or get into MMA for combat competition.

Not this again...

[ironmike2012]

It's great now. Most of the Wlad reign was boring, the 90's ridiculously overrated, but now, it's great. I watched Golota and Bowe 1 and 2 recently, this is prime Bowe, and boy, does he suck. If not for the DQ's he was losing both of those fights.

I know a lot of people loved watching Tyson KO electricians, builders and binmen, but I'm not one of those people.

Bowe was not in his prime against Golota, far from it.
He didn't train and would eat fast food.
Bowe's prime was against Holyfield, a fight he won easy, that version of Bowe would be champ now, beat Wilder with his jab anyone.
We can tell you weren't around at the time, nobody who watched boxing at that time would have thought Bowe was prime, he was shot and speech was slowing down.

[PRINCEKOOL]

i think its the best division in boxing, what youve listed mainly is a bunch of pbc no hopers who noone cares about. a lot of the top fighters are still fighting each other, weve had povetkin/whyte, usyk/chisora recently and weve got dubois/joyce coming up. joshua always fights top opponents, fury too. obviously wilder is ****e but thats the guy people wanted him to fight, and he did and he beat him like a small child

It is the most competitive division in boxing.

[JakeTheBoxer]

basically its a division dominated by european fighters so that now makes it a 'weak division' in eyes of mexicans and americans. you can bet if bum squad had knocked out joshua and fury he'd be p4p number 1 tho.

Man, I am European, I just see what I see. But I must say, it has a potential.

90s great wasn`t great either.

[OnlytheTruth]

Lets be honest, it may not have great depth because kids coming up now need to be super-heavyweights and KO artists to get anywhere. There are too many low-calibre fighters coming through who just get lined up to get knocked out by the current HW crop. If you haven't got that wow factor KO power and you're under 6ft 5, you ain't going to turn the heads of the big promoters.

Plus, there is too much hype surrounding fighters that then get sparked out at the first big hurdle - for example; Hrgovic stopping Rydell Booker was on the boxing news feed making it seem like Rydell Booker was the stepping stone to Fury or Joshua. SMH.

When the old guard retire i.e. Povetkin, Ortiz etc, there will be a gap for some younger fighters to spring up and make a statement. If none of them can, not a lot else we can do. Who really wants to get in the ring with a ***** monster like Joshua, Wilder or Fury? The paycheck is not worth the brain damage.

[JakeTheBoxer]

c Who really wants to get in the ring with a ***** monster like Joshua, Wilder or Fury? The paycheck is not worth the brain damage.

Hrgovic, Ajagba, Yoka, Dubois, Joyce, Dychko, Makhmudov...should. They are all big enough.

[OnlytheTruth]

Hrgovic, Ajagba, Yoka, Dubois, Joyce, Dychko, Makhmudov...should. They are all big enough.

Out of all of these fighters, who has actually done anything for casuals to take notice? Because thats how the boxing world survives; casuals buying PPV - not us lot talking about it on a niche boxing forum.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Out of all of these fighters, who has actually done anything for casuals to take notice? Because thats how the boxing world survives; casuals buying PPV - not us lot talking about it on a niche boxing forum.

I agree with you, we are in some transition.

You have Fury and Joshua as champs, Wilder as ex champ, Usyk as contender. The rest contenders are old or have already lost to champ. Future contenders are still waited to step up.