What is your favorite weight class?

[Master]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today. As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

[scribbs]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today.

If push came to shove I would reluctantly allow cruiser to stay if the other 8 original divisions could be established once again. I can see the logic & to be fair it has had a bad rap but has been a good division recently.

As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

If that happens then my following boxing goes down the

WBC, IBF & WBO were supposed to be discussing this, a step too far for me. Followed the sport for 30 years but it would be no more boxing in my house if this comes to fruition, I feel that strongly about it. There's already 17 divisions & some are just 3 or 4 pounds between them, they are fucking pointless!

[TitoFan]

Anything below heavyweight and I'll tell you why:




1. With the no upper weight limit, you can have the 40-50 pound differences like you had for the Fury-Cunningham fight.

2. It lends itself to fat, blubbery, out-of-shape fighters who are just banking on landing a haymaker and strike it rich.

3. Save for a few exceptions, heavyweights are devoid of most boxing skills. Defense, foot movement, ring generalship, variety of punches, good looking flurries...... all that shit goes out the window when you have some of these behemoths fighting.

4. The quality of fighters has been atrocious for the last several years, and counting. There's Wlad..... and then there's a garbage pail of disappointments, has-beens, woefully inactive, oft-injured, and never-will-be's. It's quite sad.

5. It's the one division where 50-year old retirees think they can somehow come back and cash in on one more payday. Just slap on the ol' false teeth and drive me to the gym.

6. There's more......

[Master]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today.

If push came to shove I would reluctantly allow cruiser to stay if the other 8 original divisions could be established once again. I can see the logic & to be fair it has had a bad rap but has been a good division recently.

As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

If that happens then my following boxing goes down the

WBC, IBF & WBO were supposed to be discussing this, a step too far for me. Followed the sport for 30 years but it would be no more boxing in my house if this comes to fruition, I feel that strongly about it. There's already 17 divisions & some are just 3 or 4 pounds between them, they are fucking pointless!

I agree about super heavy but the cruiserweight limit may need to go up even more.

[IamInuit]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today. As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

I agree. As much as I lament the original 8 that physical fact cannot be discounted. In addition if not for the fact that there is not enough talented Klit size fighters around I'd agree on a super hev division also.
The size disparity in the hev division is much bigger then any other division or several combined.

[El Kabong]

Heavyweight

[El Kabong]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today. As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

I agree. As much as I lament the original 8 that physical fact cannot be discounted. In addition if not for the fact that there is not enough talented Klit size fighters around I'd agree on a super hev division also.
The size disparity in the hev division is much bigger then any other division or several combined.

If there was ever a "Super Heavyweight Division" then we would have just experienced the absolute greatest 3 Super Heavies of all time back to back to back in Lewis, Vitali, & Wladimir...nobody else could compete.

That would then make the heavyweight scene a bit odd and kind of boring, but whatever.

[IamInuit]

I think having a cruiserweight division is needed with the size of heavyweights today. As crazy as it sounds a super heavyweight division could also be created in the professional ranks.

I agree. As much as I lament the original 8 that physical fact cannot be discounted. In addition if not for the fact that there is not enough talented Klit size fighters around I'd agree on a super hev division also.
The size disparity in the hev division is much bigger then any other division or several combined.

If there was ever a "Super Heavyweight Division" then we would have just experienced the absolute greatest 3 Super Heavies of all time back to back to back in Lewis, Vitali, & Wladimir...nobody else could compete.

That would then make the heavyweight scene a bit odd and kind of boring, but whatever.

Yup it would have made little difference because the talent pool would have been weaker then the present.

[El Kabong]

Yup it would have made little difference because the talent pool would have been weaker then the present.

Well in the past there would have been even fewer super heavies. Outside of Riddick Bowe, Primo Carnera, and Buddy Baer, I can't think of many guys that big who had any success.