Quote Originally Posted by hattonthehammer View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Greig View Post
They showed me that I would probably rather watch UFC than a heavyweight title fight.

Seriously, Lewis really heralded the era of the super heavyweight - the guys these days are too damn big. They don't have the speed, endurance or co-ordination that is required to make an entertaining fight anymore.

They need to be smaller.

They need to cap the heavyweights at 235, then have all these big degenerates and wads of cookie dough passing themselves off as champs in a super heavyweight division - more of a freak show or special attraction type of division.

Anybody else feeling my pain here?
There are many issues as to why the heavyweight division has completely dried up.

Young american guys with extra muscle nowadays dont have themselves in boxing gyms as means to survive and are more likely to wanna take up a career in the NFL as its much more lucrative.

The division needs a genuine world class american talent that is gonna have all the great attributes of yester year fighters and not just an arreola type brawler.

Ali/frazier/foreman got kids into the gym during the 70s, tyson/bowe in the 80s.

It seems a generation has since been missed and we are now feeling the effects of that!!
Partially true. Guys don't have to resort to boxing anymore because there are all these scholarship programs in place to take them to school to play football, basketball, etc. There needs to be NCAA boxing. (But that'll never happen cuz it's too violent.)

I also think mma is draining the talent pool at an early stage... JUST enough to help dry out boxing. And the kids whose parent have ANY money get them into tkd, karate, etc. God forbid they actually get punched in the face. Again, it's too violent. Plus this thing about eastern arts... blah blah blah. A load of shit. Boxing is historically a poor boys sport, and there aren't enough poor boys out there anymore. They have options...