why's cruiserweight dead

[nivek535]

why is the division so quiet??
i dont understand? it seems to have some pretty good fighters, why does it have little to no audience/talk?

[SlySlickSmooth]

I'm pretty sure it's a popular division in (Eastern) Europe. The only guys I know are Huck, Chakhkiev, and now Glowacki.

The only relevant (not really) American cruiserweight is Roy Jones Jr. I think.

[Scipio2009]

why is the division so quiet??
i dont understand? it seems to have some pretty good fighters, why does it have little to no audience/talk?

champions:
WBC- Grigory Drozd (Russia)
WBA- Denis Lebedev (Russia)
IBF- Yoan Pablo Hernandez (no idea where he's based)

WBO- Krzysztof Glowacki [Poland, though likely sharing time in Jersey/Chicago]

Beyond that, there's a rebirth that's starting to come for the weight class, especially in the US, thanks to the PBC.

Huck, Glowacki, Shumenov, Flores and Tony Bellew all bring the international presence to TV, and PBC currently has formal relationships with, according to BoxRec, 8 of the top 20 American cruiserweights, with no obvious barriers to working with most of the other names.

Haymon simply needs to make the fights for PBC and give the audience a chance to see the 200lbers fight.

[nivek535]

champions:
WBC- Grigory Drozd (Russia)
WBA- Denis Lebedev (Russia)
IBF- Yoan Pablo Hernandez (no idea where he's based)

WBO- Krzysztof Glowacki [Poland, though likely sharing time in Jersey/Chicago]

Beyond that, there's a rebirth that's starting to come for the weight class, especially in the US, thanks to the PBC.

Huck, Glowacki, Shumenov, Flores and Tony Bellew all bring the international presence to TV, and PBC currently has formal relationships with, according to BoxRec, 8 of the top 20 American cruiserweights, with no obvious barriers to working with most of the other names.

Haymon simply needs to make the fights for PBC and give the audience a chance to see the 200lbers fight.

interesting.., i wonder why there are so few non-european cruiserweights.

[From Russia]

Drozd, Chahkiev, Kudryashov, Lebedev, Makabu, Glowacki, Usyk. This devision is pretty deep with many punchers and technically sound fighters.

[nivek535]

Drozd, Chahkiev, Kudryashov, Lebedev, Makabu, Glowacki, Usyk. This devision is pretty deep with many punchers and technically sound fighters.

all eastern euros, they should try to market themselves in america!!
or i guess i should just follow their boxing more

[soul_survivor]

It's a decent enough division which has had some good fights in recent years: Huck/Glow most recently, Huck/Ola, Leb/Guillermo Jones and a handful of others. Some decent KO punchers there too. But the problem is these good fights come along once in a while and most of the fighter ply their trade in eastern europe, not many have big european contracts with german or british tv and so on. So it's a niche division now.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

Its a decent division with its names etc and like the poster said above me it has become a niche division catering mainly to the East European audience.

[i'm a fun haver]

why is the division so quiet??
i dont understand? it seems to have some pretty good fighters, why does it have little to no audience/talk?

Do you not remember 2 weeks ago?
Glowacki upset Huck in a FoTY contender. It was on Spike TV here in the U.S.
Yoan Pablo Hernandez is defending his belt against Victor Ramirez next month in Argentina
Denis Lebedev is defending his belt against Lateef Kayode in Nov. in Russia
Chakhkiev vs Afolbai and Dmitry Kudryashov are on the same card.
Oleksandr Usyk is fighting this weekend in Ukraine

[Mikhnienko]

It isn't. The division has provided three of the best fights this year with Lebedev/Kalenga, Ramirez/Afolabi and Glowacki/Huck. Lebedev/Kalenga was arguably the best card all year and in Nov there is another one.

These are all happening

Ramirez vs Hernandez
Chakhkiev vs Afolabi
Drozd vs Makabu
Lebedev vs Kayode

while Glowacki vs Kudryashov is being discussed. It's one of the few divisions where the top guys have been routinely fighting eachother.

champions:
WBC- Grigory Drozd (Russia)
WBA- Denis Lebedev (Russia)
IBF- Yoan Pablo Hernandez (no idea where he's based)

WBO- Krzysztof Glowacki [Poland, though likely sharing time in Jersey/Chicago]

Beyond that, there's a rebirth that's starting to come for the weight class, especially in the US, thanks to the PBC.

Huck, Glowacki, Shumenov, Flores and Tony Bellew all bring the international presence to TV, and PBC currently has formal relationships with, according to BoxRec, 8 of the top 20 American cruiserweights, with no obvious barriers to working with most of the other names.

Haymon simply needs to make the fights for PBC and give the audience a chance to see the 200lbers fight.

They're all utterly irrelevant aside from Shumenov shamefully being Lebedev's mandatory and future knockout victim. Lebedev, Drozd, Kudryashov, Chakhkiev are all with billionaire Ryabinskiy so Haymon won't be doing jack. The unfortunate thing is Glowacki will likely become irrelevant because he's working with Al with America becoming the new Germany.