The last golden age of the Heavyweights

[erics44]

If you want "action for your money" go watch Butterbean or Kimbo Slice beat up some hobos!

...so tell us:
When's the last time you paid for a Boxing PPV, El Kabong?
Do you pay every month for every PPV?

What about the rest of you "true" Boxing fans?

It's the millions of casual fans that pay for the shows and make the sport economically viable, it's not the hardcore Boxing fans at all, ahah hah!!

The last ppv I paid full price for would have been a Lennox fight a long time ago

Lyle I'd bet a lot of money 80% of us here are purist hardcore fans who admire the sweet science (I certainly am) however lets look at the ppv figures from now and then in the Heavyweights then ask yourself how many Heavyweights the man in the street could name right now?

Fuck me in England he'd say Anthony Joshua not the reigning champion Wlad and the reason is that nobody watches Wladimir because he doesn't entertain which is what the heavyweights is all about.

Big fighters with KO power... this is why people (casual fans) tune in.

I said earlier that the Heavyweights died the night Lennox and Vitali finished, maybe Joshua can bring it back but he can't do it alone because apart from the hugely dubious Wilder who else will bring the casual fans back?

Fury to some extent but that's because of his mouth not his boxing.

I doubt we will ever see the Heavies as good as the era in the thread title again.

i agree with all of what you said apart from this last line

we will have quality HWs again and quality title fights, soon as wlad retires things will start to improve and title fights will start to become exciting again

i believe there is quality, and i believe they are better than wlad, just not in germany

but once the excitement comes back more quality will come through and one day we will have a decent HW division again

[El Kabong]

Wlad isn't popular? He isn't entertaining? People don't watch his fights? Oh I'm sorry he's fought in packed houses how many times? People can go on about "Oh Wlad's only famous in Germany, Ukraine, etc" but the guy has 0 trouble selling tickets and to his point Floyd Mayweather Jr ONLY fights in Las Vegas, how is that different? Wlad doesn't have to sell PPV's because he's got a solid deal with RTL or whoever...the guy ain't hurting for fans and he's not hurting for money.

You can "But, but, but" all you like but thems the facts jack.

[erics44]

Wlad isn't popular? He isn't entertaining? People don't watch his fights? Oh I'm sorry he's fought in packed houses how many times? People can go on about "Oh Wlad's only famous in Germany, Ukraine, etc" but the guy has 0 trouble selling tickets and to his point Floyd Mayweather Jr ONLY fights in Las Vegas, how is that different? Wlad doesn't have to sell PPV's because he's got a solid deal with RTL or whoever...the guy ain't hurting for fans and he's not hurting for money.

You can "But, but, but" all you like but thems the facts jack.

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

[El Kabong]

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

Still trolling are ya? Wladimir has 52 knockouts, an 80% KO rate, but "he doesn't punch"....fuck you you dumb fucking ginger peddle that bullshit somewhere else

[erics44]

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

Still trolling are ya? Wladimir has 52 knockouts, an 80% KO rate, but "he doesn't punch"....fuck you you dumb fucking ginger peddle that bullshit somewhere else

if wlad would have ko'ed provetkin in round 9 say, would that have been a legitimate KO?

[El Kabong]

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

Still trolling are ya? Wladimir has 52 knockouts, an 80% KO rate, but "he doesn't punch"....fuck you you dumb fucking ginger peddle that bullshit somewhere else

if wlad would have ko'ed provetkin in round 9 say, would that have been a legitimate KO?

a KO is a KO is a KO, if the ref calls it that's what it is, but continue your trolling please. Pretty please continue that trolling, I can't get enough of it. Tell me again how great Frank Bruno was and then go clean a chimney you twat

[erics44]

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

Still trolling are ya? Wladimir has 52 knockouts, an 80% KO rate, but "he doesn't punch"....fuck you you dumb fucking ginger peddle that bullshit somewhere else

if wlad would have ko'ed provetkin in round 9 say, would that have been a legitimate KO?

a KO is a KO is a KO, if the ref calls it that's what it is, but continue your trolling please. Pretty please continue that trolling, I can't get enough of it. Tell me again how great Frank Bruno was and then go clean a chimney you twat

I can tell you how legitimate Bruno was

[Nameless]

im not sure fought is the right word

p.s. the main difference between mayweather and wlad is mayweather punches his opponent more than he holds him

Still trolling are ya? Wladimir has 52 knockouts, an 80% KO rate, but "he doesn't punch"....fuck you you dumb fucking ginger peddle that bullshit somewhere else

if wlad would have ko'ed provetkin in round 9 say, would that have been a legitimate KO?

a KO is a KO is a KO, if the ref calls it that's what it is, but continue your trolling please. Pretty please continue that trolling, I can't get enough of it. Tell me again how great Frank Bruno was and then go clean a chimney you twat