It's a matter of preferences.

I used to like the HW division a lot more before the following changes happened:

1. Seems like a lot more guys began showing up in the HW picture woefully out of shape. Blubbery dudes hoping for a big, one-punch payday.

2. Wladimir's reign did me in pretty much. More than a decade of watching a parade of scared stiffs, fighting a champion who was just as scared, using all sorts of tactics, many of them illegal, to win fights. This turned me off HW fights completely.

3. David Haye.

4. Fights like Wlad-Fury. Frankly, I'd much rather have sat outside watching my grass grow than to have watched that fight.


Heavyweights were fun back in the days of Tyson, Lennox, Holyfield, etc. After that, it's all gone to hell.

Meanwhile, the lighter divisions continue to give us great boxing, wonderful matchups, and professional athletes who are in shape and look in shape, ready to go full bore for 12 rounds. No contest as far as I'm concerned.