How deep is thisWW division?

[Taeth]

You know whats sad, but I think is true is that the heavyweight division is becoming pretty solid, not great, but solid

W.Klitschko, Povetchkin, Chambers, Brock, Solis, Haye, Ibrigamov, V.Klitschko, S. Peter, Chagaev, Valuev, Chazz Witherspoon, Chris Arreola

Its mainly prospects, but there are a few solid guys up top, a good solid champ in Wlad, and many olympic level prospects.

I wasn't trying to compare the top talent right to in the 80's only Mayweather would get my vote at having a chance to beat Leonard, DUran, Hearns, etc. Though I would be interested to see Hearns handle Cotto on the inside even though he would blow COtto out before he would get the chance.

[HattonTheHammer]

You know whats sad, but I think is true is that the heavyweight division is becoming pretty solid, not great, but solid

W.Klitschko, Povetchkin, Chambers, Brock, Solis, Haye, Ibrigamov, V.Klitschko, S. Peter, Chagaev, Valuev, Chazz Witherspoon, Chris Arreola

Its mainly prospects, but there are a few solid guys up top, a good solid champ in Wlad, and many olympic level prospects.

I wasn't trying to compare the top talent right to in the 80's only Mayweather would get my vote at having a chance to beat Leonard, DUran, Hearns, etc. Though I would be interested to see Hearns handle Cotto on the inside even though he would blow COtto out before he would get the chance.

cotto would beat hearns, though i agree hagler would tear floyd a new one.

I see what you say about the heavys though - more prospects coming through now than in a good 4-5 years.

Povetkin and haye are solid gold world champion bets. Then youve got witherspoon, arreola from that list that both have the potential to become stars eventually.

Mind you i once predicted chris Byrd was the future of heavyweight division - so take my advice at your peril!!!

[Kev]

You know whats sad, but I think is true is that the heavyweight division is becoming pretty solid, not great, but solid

W.Klitschko, Povetchkin, Chambers, Brock, Solis, Haye, Ibrigamov, V.Klitschko, S. Peter, Chagaev, Valuev, Chazz Witherspoon, Chris Arreola

Its mainly prospects, but there are a few solid guys up top, a good solid champ in Wlad, and many olympic level prospects.

I wasn't trying to compare the top talent right to in the 80's only Mayweather would get my vote at having a chance to beat Leonard, DUran, Hearns, etc. Though I would be interested to see Hearns handle Cotto on the inside even though he would blow COtto out before he would get the chance.

There's nothing sad about the heavyweight division becoming solid, that would be a great thing.

I think actually you are pretty much correct. There is generally speaking as much talent near the top of the heavyweight division as there has ever been, what we are missing are the 3 or 4 really big stars.

Guys like Ibragimov, Klitshko, Thompson, Povetkin,, Peter etc would have made it to the top 10 or close to the top 10 in pretty much any era, they just probably wouldn't have ever held belts, although Wlad I think possibly may have won a belt in the Lewis/ Tyson era, certainly he's a dangerous fighter.

I think what has affected the heavyweights negatively in recent years is twofold. Firstly the new breed of heavyweights arn't particularly exciting to watch. They are generally, slow and methodical with not too much explosiveness.

Secondly they are predominantly European which automatically means America (the current home of boxing) understandably isn't interested much so the general impression in boxing is one of heavyweight decline.

[CutMeMick]

The WW Div. has been the best thus far.

But followed VERY closely I'd say the Light Flyweight Div.

Calderon, Cazares, Solis, Sosa, Asloum, Roman Gonzalez, Giovani Segura.