I was thinking about this the other day right...
where is boxing really going at the moment?
i mean everybody has theyr favourite era and thinks theyr favourite is the best, me i feel that the nineties to early millenium has been the best for most things that i like.
but for instance in boxing, whats going on now? i mean ive realised all my favourite boxers are coming to the end of theyr careers, de la hoya maybe has one or two fights left, barrera and morales dont have a great deal left,tito has been retired for a while and should stay retired. jones is not the man he used to be and needs a big win to go out on, i doubt bernard will get the fight with oleg and if he does that will likely be his last just as jones only had the one fight at heavyweight, other great fighters that werent my particular favourites but were solid fighters and entertaining to watch like gatti and ward are gone.
and others like hatton and floyd to some extent have said they maybe only plan on haveing 5 or 6 more fights then calling it a day whilst undefeated?
and ive found myself looking all over the place for prospects to follow, or champs that are still young?
here are a few..
cotto
malignaggi
taylor
williams would be a prospect if he had only had say 15 fights, but for around the 30 mark hes not as good as i feel he should be and hes not fought the competition he should have.
others like jcc jr and khan dont impress me,
and although im pretty impressed by a few cats from the really light divisions like bautista etc..
ive never been as big a fan of these divisions as i am the others.
and i find myself thinking whats going on with boxing, the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions arent looking great.
its only some fighters around the middle divisions that are fighting eachother and the top competition they should be, lightwieght isnt all that special at the moment, super feather is always good because of fighters like barrera,morales and pacman but they wont be around forever...
and ive lost interest in the featherwieght division?
how does everyone else feel about this? when was your favourite era? do you think its slipping away? or is it still good for you guys? im not saying i dont still love to watch boxing its just sort of in limbo at the moment...
peace
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