Quote Originally Posted by hattonthehammer View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
There's a lot of idiots out there. I find it funny when people claim to be boxing fans but don't follow certain division (the small ones paticular). How the fukk you going to claim to be a boxing fan and not know who the fukk Yutata Niida and Donnie Nietes are?

Never heard of either

strawweight!! isnt that like 100 pounds

who the hell weighs a 100 pounds apart from anorexic teenage girls and midgets anyway??

deanrw - has it summed perfectly. The whole reason the heavyweight division has always been recognised as the premiere division within the sport is because it contains the biggest guys, throwing the hardest punches in the toughest of battles.

I personally grew up having no affiliating with anything below lightweight until your barreras/morales/hameds/pacquiaos came along and completely blew away all your evident stereotypes of little men who probably wouldnt be able to take a good solid punch.

Think in the UK and US in particular these type of divisions are regularly overlooked because we dont often get too many hometown fighters in them.

Its no myth that the further down the divisions you go the more evident you find south american and asian fighters plying their trades. Why that is? i have no idea whatsoever.
Asians are smaller in size that's why they are in lower divisions. The reason why heavyweights before are more popular than the lighter weights is because people looked up to the supremacy of US and UK and they would also associate it with supremacy in boxing. Now that information is becoming accessible to all parts of the world because of advancement in technology, Asian and South American fighters are slowly being given recognition. For example, Pacquaio is becoming very popular because of the support he gets from his countrymen and that is very evident in this site.